Middle schooler faces criminal charges for cutting a peach with a butter knife

[rangerrebew]

 Middle schooler faces criminal charges for cutting a peach with a butter knife
College Fix Staff •December 20, 2016


Trying to teach your children some manners at the table? Don’t send them to school with a set of utensils “made for children to learn how to eat properly.”

An 11-year-old Florida girl who brought a butter knife to school at the behest of her parents is facing potential criminal charges from the local state’s attorney, showing the “folly of overcriminalization,” according to David Rosenthal, a visiting legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Writing in The Daily Signal, Rosenthal blasts school officials and prosecutors for using the criminal justice system to handle “every minor mishap” as a threat to school safety:

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/30453/

[rangerrebew]

She should have told the staff she was a muzzie and all problems would have disappeared.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

But if we ban knives what will they use to play mumbletypeg?