Worst part is how a 10 yr old was treated and put into confinement. Why not just take the knife and send him back to his friends until his family could get him. Another reason liberals have it all wrong and have led to this type of action being taken against little kids.

 

Boy Suspended for Bringing Swiss Army Knife on School Camping Trip | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes

This is just plain stupid. Let's play a game called "How Wrong Can We Get It?"

This is just plain stupid. Let's play a game called "How Wrong Can We Get It?"

 

What happened to adults using common sense?

 

Do they realize this may hurt the kid emotionally and eventually lead to a kid who is disturbed and who knows what he may do in the future. He may be a school shooter.

Or feel left out and made fun of and goes home and hangs himself to not be made fun of by classmates.

I can't decide which is the biggest overreaction: The school officials in this case or mountain ref's last post. :eek:

I can't decide which is the biggest overreaction: The school officials in this case or mountain ref's last post. :eek:

 

Who is to say how the 10yr old will react or what might have been done to him emotionally. Hopefully none of the mentioned.

10 year old kids are incredibly resilient, his reaction will probably in large part be a reflection of his how well his parents handle the situation. All that stuff you posted about him becomming a school shooter or a suicide victim is ridiculous if you ask me.

 

I think the school handled it horribly and the way he was treated was a travesty. However, the kid did take a forbidden item to a school function and he was in the wrong.

 

If it were my kid I would address it with him that he did break a rule and he was wrong, but that his punishment was over the top. I would then spend a lot of time teaching him that sometimes we get dealt a bad hand and sometimes life isn't fair. I would stress that our character is revealed when we are tested and that the best way to respond is to brush it off and move on. Then I would let him know that it is OK for me to address the issue of the punishment with the school in a mature way and that would be my job, not his.

10 year old kids are incredibly resilient, his reaction will probably in large part be a reflection of his how well his parents handle the situation. All that stuff you posted about him becomming a school shooter or a suicide victim is ridiculous if you ask me.

 

And I am guessing you are a psychologist that knows what will happen when 10yr old kids are put into these situations. So are you assuring us he wont turn out like that or do anything. How do you know what a 10yr old thinks or how this 10yr old thinks?

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What happened to adults using common sense?

 

Do they realize this may hurt the kid emotionally and eventually lead to a kid who is disturbed and who knows what he may do in the future. He may be a school shooter.

Or feel left out and made fun of and goes home and hangs himself to not be made fun of by classmates.

 

With any luck, the kid wasn't born in the US, so he wouldn't deserve the same rights as other kids anyway.

With any luck, the kid wasn't born in the US, so he wouldn't deserve the same rights as other kids anyway.

 

Awesome response, wish I had beat you to it.

Having seen a picture it looks like a relatively small knife. He probably could get on commercial airliner with it under the proposed (but currently on hold) rules TSA has proposed.

When I was that age there probably wouldn't have been a kid on a camping trip that didn't have a Swiss Army knife.

When I was that age there probably wouldn't have been a kid on a camping trip that didn't have a Swiss Army knife.

That is what I was thinking. Does the kid bring this knife on family camping trips? It sounds like it from what the father has said, and if yes, then the kid may have thought it was okay to bring on this camping trip.

 

I agree that there were better ways to handle this, such as taking the kid to the side and ask him why he brought the knife, if things check out, take the knife away from him, maybe check his belongings, and let him get back to his friends and just call the father.

And I am guessing you are a psychologist that knows what will happen when 10yr old kids are put into these situations. So are you assuring us he wont turn out like that or do anything. How do you know what a 10yr old thinks or how this 10yr old thinks?

Nope, I am no more qualified to speculate on this kid's future than you are.

 

Having raised a couple of boys, I have a pretty good idea how mine react. All I can tell you, judging just from my experience only, is they feed off their parents' emotions/reactions to situations. My level of agitation has a great deal of influence upon how they handle tough situations. Likewise, when facing adversity, I have noticed that if I let it run off my back, then they will have a much easier time doing the same. I have struggled at times keeping my emotions in check, and sometimes I fail miserably, but I have no doubt in my mind that the best thing I can do for my kids is to lead by example.

Nope, I am no more qualified to speculate on this kid's future than you are.

 

Having raised a couple of boys, I have a pretty good idea how mine react. All I can tell you, judging just from my experience only, is they feed off their parents' emotions/reactions to situations. My level of agitation has a great deal of influence upon how they handle tough situations. Likewise, when facing adversity, I have noticed that if I let it run off my back, then they will have a much easier time doing the same. I have struggled at times keeping my emotions in check, and sometimes I fail miserably, but I have no doubt in my mind that the best thing I can do for my kids is to lead by example.

 

But they also see those responsible teachers over react as do his friends and then they over react. Those kids may feed off of the teachers reactions. I mean over reactions.

I have a 10 year old. He loves to go camping. And quite honestly, he's still in the stage where he loves to do pretty much whatever Dad is doing. So, if I had a multipurpose tool/Swiss Army knife with me that I normally took camping...he'd love to have one too. And if he did have one, I can see him being soooooo excited to be going on a camping trip with his school, that he'd be getting all of our normal camping stuff out to take (flashlight, canteen, sleeping bag, etc.)...and I can easily see him thinking that his little Swiss Army knife would be part of that equipment. He wouldn't be thinking of it as a weapon, but rather, as a tool. And, in that sense, he may still be a little naive. But, I think for his age...it's still appropriate.

 

But, I can tell you, if he was pulled away from his group, put into isolation and told that he brought a "weapon", and not allowed to rejoin his classmates...he would be a basket-case. He would cry. He would be ashamed. And not only would he probably not want to ever go camping again...he probably would not want to go to school again (especially if it involved being in class with the teacher that was responsible for the actions)...and he may not even want to be around his classmates that knew what happened. That's just the way he would be. And I can't say that I would blame him (for the way he'd feel).

 

Now, I only know my son...and I know that he doesn't have a malicious bone in his body. So, I can only speak for myself and my son. But, if his school took actions the same way this one did...I'd be mad as h-e-double toothpicks. I'm not saying it's right to bring the knife in the first place. Far from it. But, this would have been a gross overreaction, if it had been my son. This is different than if he brought the knife to school and pulled it out in class. They are in an environment where the knife is totally in context, and I can see where in a 10 year old's mind, he did nothing wrong.