Remember, in the right hands, anything can be a weapon. Just ask most pinhead school officials.
In the past, we’ve
reported about all sorts of things that school officials have considered dangerous weapons, including squirt guns, a hand, Legos, a pencil and a shirt. Here’s a new one.
For bending a paperclip, a boy was suspended from school because officials said it could be used as a “weapon.”
A reddit user
posted an image of a disciplinary form sent home that tells parents the child committed the heinous act of bending a paperclip.
Presumably, the child bent the paperclip to look like this:
If you can’t read it, the “circumstances of the incident” reads:
Sean was brought to the office by a staff member who reported that Sean had a sharp object on him in his right pocket. When asked what he had in his pocket he reported he did not have anything. When asked to empty his pockets he refused. After several minutes Sean emptied his pockets. The contents of his pockets included a cell phone, pen cap, and paper clip. The paperclip was bent in a manner that could allow for use as a weapon.
Have you ever bent a paperclip? We all have. Clearly these administrators didn’t consider that the kid was merely bending the paperclip. But then again, our schools today are worried about Common Core, not common sense.
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