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Title: Girl suspended from school for cutting peach with child butter knife
Source:
WTAJ-TV, Altoona
URL Source: http://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/ ... -peach-with-child-butter-knife
Published: Nov 18, 2016
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2016-11-23 05:33:05 by Deckard
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Views: 46928
Comments: 74
Police turn investigation over to Florida State Attorney's Office
A South Florida couple is outraged after they said their daughter was suspended from her middle school for using a child butter knife at lunchtime to cut a peach, Local10.com reported.
"There's no one there trying to educate and to be reasonable to say, 'Let's work this out,'" the girl's father, Ronald Souto, said.
Souto's daughter is an honor roll student at Silver Trail Middle School in Pembroke Pines.
"She's always trying to help someone. She's always trying to share things," Souto said about his daughter.
Ronald and Andrea Souto told Local 10 News reporter Michael Seiden that their 11-year-old daughter was suspended for six days for bringing the knife to school.
"This is a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers -- one year old," Andrea Souto said. "It is made for children to learn how to eat properly. She's used it since she was baby."
According to the school district, the girl violated the county's weapon policy when she used her butter knife in the cafeteria to cut the peach.
"The friend asked for half of the peach and she cuts half of the peach and gives to her friend. She goes to the bathroom and comes back and the guy said, 'Follow me,'" Ronald Souto said.
Ronald said he hopes what happened to his daughter will bring change to the district, specifically new polices when it comes to weapons.
He's not alone.
"I think the principal should revisit this and everyone (should) sit down to the table, and let's just say, 'Don't do it again.' This is outrageous to go to that extreme," Melvin J. Smith, whose grandson attends the school, said.
The Soutos said they were shocked about the suspension and are now concerned that their daughter's act of kindness could lead to criminal charges.
"She's afraid now of the educators. She's afraid of people at school. They need to change the system," Ronald Souto said.
A Broward County school district spokeswoman declined to offer specifics about the incident because of "student privacy," but said, "The school followed district policy regarding this incident and continues to work with the student and parents involved. It is the district's priority to maintain safe and secure campuses for students and staff at all times."
The Pembroke Pines Police Department said it has turned over their investigation to the State Attorney's Office.
It's unclear whether prosecutors will file charges, but the family's attorney said the school board isn't doing its job in this case.
"The school board has abused its discretion to act in this case," Larry Meltzer said. "It is tragic that a school that this little girl loves sees fit to prosecute and suspend her -- the epitome of a model and honor roll student -- for using a child-proof utensil that could never be construed in any form as a weapon in order to share part of her lunch with a fellow classmate.
"This item at all times was used in the school's lunch room as it should be -- to cut a peach and share lunch with a friend," he added. "She should be applauded for her generosity, kindness and for her motivation to be a great student in all senses of that word.
"The only harm that has been exacted in this case is by Silver Trail Middle School and the Broward County School Board upon one of its finest students and upon one who exemplifies the type of person and student it wishes to help create. It is truly senseless and does reflects poorly upon the type of educators and law enforcement involved in this case." (1 image)
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What the girl’s mother said to the media after the incident:
"This is a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers -- one year old," [….] "It is made for children to learn how to eat properly.”What the girls’s mother should have said to the girl before the incident:
This is a Silver Trail Middle School Rules Book for school children – all ages. [….] "It is made for children to learn how to follow school rules properly….you read the rules and follow them.”
#3. To: Gatlin (#2)
Attaboy!
Once again Gatlin cheers the State for labeling an innocent child a criminal.
You are a real establishment tool.
#4. To: Deckard (#3) (Edited)
The girl’s parents had a copy of the rules, every parent with a child in the school did. The parents probably didn’t even read it, they probably couldn’t even find it if they wanted to.
The whiney mother is no doubt the type of mother who would tell the cop who stopped her for doing 45 mph in a 15 mph school zone: “But officer I am ONLY driving a SMALL Volkswagen.”
A butter knife is a WEAPON and has been used to stab someone to death. A Texas man fatally stabbed of his wife’s teenage lover with a butter knife. There are other cases where a butter knife was used.
You Paultard libertarian assholes do not live in your OWN world, you can’t decide which rules and laws you choose to follow and which you choose to ignore.
Well, I guess you can….but then: “Breaking Rules has Consequences!”
Always remember that …
#5. To: Gatlin (#4)
A butter knife is a WEAPON and has been used to stab someone to death.
This was a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers -- one year old
Take your "zero tolerance" nonsense and stick it up your ass.
Common sense should prevail in instances like this one.
It's PC assholes like you who instigated this bullshit in the first place.
#7. To: Deckard (#5) (Edited)
This was a set of a spoon, fork and knife for toddlers
It is still a God Damned KNIFE you stupid asshole.
If it was used to cut a peach in half, and it was....it could be used to cut someone's throat.
You STUPIDITY never ceases to amaze the internet world ...
#12. To: Gatlin (#7)
It is still a God Damned KNIFE you stupid asshole.
If it was used to cut a peach in half, and it was....it could be used to cut someone's throat.
You STUPIDITY never ceases to amaze the internet world ...
A "God Damned KNIFE" you call it? Quite a characterization for the item in question. It's as though nothing else at the school has the remotest chance of being used to kill or maim?
Are you also opposed to these kids having pencils and pens? What about those handheld pencil sharpeners? They actually contain steel cutting blades for God's sake! The chairs the kids sit in could easily be used to club any 5 year old to death! Are there windows in the class rooms? Break one and you instantly have a nasty cutting blade! String from art class -- My God.. Some student could use that to strangle someone!
It's amazing any of us survived growing up in those war zones.
#25. To: Pinguinite (#12)
Luis Miguel Hernandez, 33, was convicted for the fatal stabbing of his wife’s teenage lover with a butter knife.
Anthony Harrison Baxter killed a couple by twice plunging a butter knife into their hearts.
There are others such cases with a butter knife involved.
A "God Damned KNIFE" you call it? Quite a characterization for the item in question.I’ll still call it that: A” “God Damned KNIFE.”
Are you also opposed to these kids having pencils and pens? What about those handheld pencil sharpeners?Ah, FINALLY, a direct question to me, to which I will answer: Nope.
(I thought you said that you didn’t do direct questions….I guess I misunderstood you).
They [handheld pencil sharpeners] actually contain steel cutting blades for God's sake! The chairs the kids sit in could easily be used to club any 5 year old to death! Are there windows in the class rooms? Break one and you instantly have a nasty cutting blade! String from art class -- My God.. Some student could use that to strangle someone!You show me where a pencil sharpener, school chair, broken school window glass or string has ever been used to kill someone like I showed you where a butter knife was used to kill and then we will discuss this…sounds fair, doesn’t it?
It's amazing any of us survived growing up in those war zones.Never bothered me. But now that you mention it….that could be the reason some of you misfits turned out to be libertarians….ya think?
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#43. To: Gatlin (#25) (Edited)
Glass can also be used as a weapon.
Case scenario: Back in '95, I was in a dressing room with several of my co-workers. Two of them were fighting to the point that the one pushed the other very hard next to a standing vanity mirror. The mirror split into several places leaving shards of glass on the floor. The one co-worker picked up one of the shards of glass and took and grabbed the other co-worker and began slicing into their right side temple of the face and continued all way down to their leg. There was blood everywhere and all I remember is running to the restroom to get some paper towels to stop the bleeding while awaiting for an ambulance. I believe the fight started where one of the co-workers said some shitty stuff about the other co-worker which was effecting their earnings, and that set off the fight.
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