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Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-how-you-play dept.

mernilio writes "According to UPI: 'A Massachusetts school district superintendent said a memo banning sixth graders from carrying pencils was written without district approval. North Brookfield School District interim Superintendent Gordon Noseworthy said Wendy Scott, one of two sixth-grade teachers at North Brookfield Elementary School, did not get approval from administrators before sending the memo to all sixth-grade parents, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported Thursday. The memo said students would no longer be allowed to bring writing implements to school. It said pencils would be provided for students in class and any students caught with pencils or pens after Nov. 15 would face disciplinary action for having materials 'to build weapons.'"

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  1. Fear mongering 101 by assemblerex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure why not when I could just break a chair leg off and bludgeon someone.

    1. Re:Fear mongering 101 by lgw · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I rememeber a classmate bringing a (sharp) sword to class to show off to his friends. No one made a stink about it, becasue he was unlikely to shoot anyone with it. We just weren't scared back then. There was occasional serious violence, which was briefly interesting, but we just went on with life.

      When did everyone become so afraid of everything?

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  2. Wrong headline by Sonny+Yatsen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe it's me, but isn't the proper headline "Students NOT banned from bringing pencils to school"?

    After all, the district said that the teacher sent the memo without permission of the superintendent and that it did not reflect district policy. So we got an overzealous and whacked out teacher, which is certainly not news.

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  3. Re:You know... by JackieBrown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've never visited Nannychusetts, have you? State motto: "We're not happy until you're not happy."

    As long as everybody is equally unhappy, then things are fair. What would be unfair is for certain people to be happy when others are not.

    It is easier to force everyone down a level then try to give people the means to raise themselves a level.

    Since people are so envious of what others have, this also gives the ones taking happiness a power base.

  4. Re:The pen[cil] is mightier than the sword! by DeathToBill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Erm, well, according to the fount of all knowledge, Japan has a murder rate of 0.44 per 100,000, less than one tenth the rate in the US.

    Still, never let facts get in the way of good old ideology, what?

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