Some Michigan Schools Permit ‘Religious’ Knives, Yet Cupcakes Are Still Banned
- Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:29pm by
Mike Opelka
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Tolerance of different faiths is a vital part of the foundation of American freedom. We do not have a national religion and thus, allow virtually all religions to exist side by side. But we also have reasonable limits on how people worship, meaning that one religion cannot claim exemption when their practices infringe or threaten the rights of others. Such is the argument in Michigan where students who follow the Sikh faith have been granted permission to carry into schools the small dagger known as the Kirpan.
For the record, the Kirpan is a symbolic knife and usually not sharpened and in that state it is about as dangerous as a butter knife. The initial ban was ordered after a 4th grader was found to be carrying the dull knife and parents raised questions. Since that time, members of the Sikh presented their case to the school board and the ban has been lifted, allowing for the Kirpans to be carried into classrooms.
Many school districts around the country mandate that students enter buildings each day through metal detectors designed to protect all students from guns and knives. In order to guarantee security for all, will Sikh students who bring their Kirpans to class will be asked to show that the knives are not sharpened? How else can the school be certain that a non-Skih student has not brought a weapon into the building under the cloak of religious freedom?
As an odd sidebar to this story, there are Michigan schools that have stood up and banned cupcakes.
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Comments (341)
nostromo
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:47pmWhile the Sikhs are known as ferocious warriors and can be a great asset in our war on Al Queda this is just plain crazy. When you have kids being suspended for bringing toy plastic soldiers to school or pointing a finger at someone and saying bang allowing a kirpan into the schools is a decision only a school administrator could find tolerable. I wonder what they would do if someone wore a set of rosary beads to class. Would religious tolerance go that far?
Report Post »ivdad
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:01amMany schools have banned rosary beads. Administrators claim they are gang symbols. And we wonder why our education system is going down the tubes.
Report Post »Nevada Tumbleweed
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:45pmThis could be used as a weapon-sharpened or not!
Report Post »temple62
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:45pmHey there Ahmad, I just cut the throat of an infidel and all was approved by the school administration!
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:27pmdumb…
Sikhs exist because muslims were killing too many people in India…
wake up..
Report Post »temple62
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:44pmOf course they can bring knives, no one sees anything wrong with that??? These superintendents and principals need to be terminated immediately without pay or benefits!
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:02pmThey are likely of the same faith, or have enough school board members that are, to overrule it.
Report Post »dmcote77
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:44pmAnd students are thrown out of school for wearing crosses! How moronic is this?????
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:43pmBut if you are a christian you can’t wear a t-shift that says “I love jesus”? Unfreaking Real
Report Post »hey ohms
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:42pmWWWELL, thats cool. If my kid can bring a buck skinner in with him. yeah its just for looks. looks like nobody will mess with him.
Report Post »country_hick
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:42pmAs an inactive member of the Reformed Church of the Red Velvet cupcake I feel I should do something but what? What? What kind of protest would someone with 2 active brain cells understand?
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:42pmGod help us if some idiot goes on a killing spree with a crayon.
Kids will just have to imagine they are coloring then.
Report Post »Elcigaro
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:41pmWhat if my religion requires me to carry a bazooka? Can I get an exemption too?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:50pmIf you are a muslim, yes, otherwise no… ;-)
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:40pmIf it’s as dangerous as a butter knife, then it should be banned because butter knives are banned for any other religion.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:40pmAnyone in Michigan have a religion that call’s for a gun? What then?? Guess it depends on who you are.
Report Post »ChiRho4Life
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:27pmYup..there is such a religion called “Nugentology…the Church of the Saturday Tracker”…a man we call “Ted”….our war-cry…wannngooo dee tannngoooo, and pass the ammunition
Report Post »hnuh
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:40pmAnother religeon of peace. They really need to let the little moslems carry bombs in school too.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:47pmDude, They are SO different. This is basically an offshoot of Hinduism. The basis of the religion is the union of soul with God. A Sikh disciplines his thoughts and actions so that the five obstacles—lust, anger, greed, attachment and ego—are dispelled and the soul is united with God. Sikhs believe that the cycle of reincarnation is escaped by this union. Muslims will have none of that “non-sense”.
The knife thing at school is still crazy.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:29pmSikhs are non-muslim.. that knife is for protection against the constant jihad of muslims..
Report Post »Fried Okra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:31pmHaha… Good one Van
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:39pmok what about cupcakes shaped like sikh knives?
Report Post »Nevada Tumbleweed
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:48pmMy religion requires I carry a small handgun. I guess this would be permissible in Michigan too.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:09pmNevada,
Well, fair is fair I guess. If it is OK for a Seik to carry a knife, I guess it is OK for you to carry a weapon of your choice.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:30pmWell me personaly Im loading up on cupcakes
Im going to take down my alarm system and just put up a sign on the front door
WARNING :
Report Post »THIS HOUSE CONATINS CUPCAKES
patriot308
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:05pmI’m thinking…. My little johnny would be carrying a Crocodile Dundee style knife; all painted up to look eastern with one of them fancy little fairy sheaths; all nicely polished…. so it draws out all, sikhy smoootthhhhhhh……. Bah Ha Ha Ha!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:37pmNice to know they have their priorities straight!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:41pmAnd furthermore……..How long will it be before radical Muslims in Michigan demand bringing in their rusty swords in the name of religious freedom?
Report Post »hud
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:34pmChristians should carry crusader’s broad swards as their cross.
Report Post »old guy in SC
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:36pmI suppose that if a non-Sikh kindergartener makes a gun sign with his fingers, he’ll be expelled. This is absolutely nuts.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:53pmThey will have to bring in a plastic gun to school and get expelled. Even if it doesn’t look like a real gun and is an orange water pistol they will get kicked out. But a knife is okay.
What is this world coming to?
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:36pmWhat happened to “Zero Tolerance???” If this was some form of Christian school the kid would be in jail by now!!!
We have to stop kowtowing to the Muslims.
RIGHT NOW!!!
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:56pmNot muslim, Sikh. From India, they have Guru’s and such.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:14pmI stand corrected. I meant to say – equal treatment for everyone!
Report Post »DMMN
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:14pmSIKHS ARE NOT MUSLIMS….for f*#@! sake, people…read a book.
I pulled this from the internet:
The kirpan is both a defensive weapon and a symbol. Physically it is an instrument of “ahimsa” or non-violence. The principle of ahimsa is to actively prevent violence, not to simply stand by idly whilst violence is being done. To that end, the kirpan is a tool to be used to prevent violence from being done to a defenseless person when all other means to do so have failed. ………..
ALSO THIS, from WIKIPEDIA (for what that is worth) : Not all those who identify themselves as Sikhs carry or recommend carrying a kirpan usable as a weapon. Hardeep Singh Kohli, who identifies himself and most of the Sikhs he knows as secular Sikhs, criticised UK Sikh judge Sir Mota Singh QC for calling for Sikh schoolchildren to be allowed to carry the kirpan, saying “he thinks it’s OK for kids to take knives to class. … I’m simply not comfortable with knives being allowed into school. …small, symbolic kirpans are attached to combs that Sikhs keep in their hair. Similarly, small kirpan-shaped pendants are worn around the neck, again fulfilling the criterion of the faith that the dagger be ever-present. Other Sikhs consider that a kirpan must be viable as a weapon to fulfil religious criteria……
IMHO: School is…….no……..place…..for knives….religious………..or otherwise….sorry, I was eating a cupcake….
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:34pmhmmm a religion that needs you to carry a knife ?
lol
sure glad Christ wasnt a clown
Report Post »Maggie12
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:56pmThey keep dragger to fight and protect from Muslims.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:34pmGod Forbid You Carry In a plastic Soldier!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:38pmOr make a firing gesture with your thumb and forefinger!
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:54pmOr wear a T-Shirt with an American Flag!
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:20pmYour too late, an elementry student was suspended within the last two weeks for using firing gesture with your thumb and forefinger
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:34pmWhat kind of cupcakes are they?
Were they bought at an adult store ?
what am I missing here?
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:55pmYou are missing the food police (I mean Mama-Obama) who won’t allow our kids to eat junk food in school because of the obesity problem.
Report Post »Billsocal
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:34pmOh cupcakes are far more dangerous than some religious knife in the minds of the progressive nannies.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:34pmThis is just not right. No cupcakes? Darn!
Report Post »debmcl37
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:50pmCupcakes,they’re dangerous!
Report Post »RedeyeBlind
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:33pmMy jaw is still on the floor.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:44pmMe too.
No knives of any sort for any reasons should be allowed in schools. Most school cafeterias do not even have metal butter knives, but plastic knives if one is lucky.
No knives period and yes to cup cakes.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:32pmKnives don’t kill people, cupcakes do. PC gone wild.
Report Post »BQI
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:41pmLove it. Good comment.
http://www.blackquillandink.com
Report Post »jcabsep
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:49pmNow I know why Glenn is so upset about this– CUPCAKES are being demonized again. Damn their tasty goodness!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:30pm@jcabsep
I can see the scene now playing out…
{Obi wan: “These are not the cupcakes you are looking for…”
Report Post »{Stormtrooper: “These are not the cupcakes we are looking for…”
{Obi wan: “Go and prepare my table, plate and napkins, and do not forget the frosting as well…”
{Stormtrooper: “Yes sir!!!”
{Obi wan: “Peice of cake…”
BMC105
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:32pmFor the sake of tolerance, we trash common sense. Makes no sense to the sound mind !
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:39pmCan we bring our religous guns?
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:41pmWTF, what do they have against cupcakes?
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:42pmIs there a religion that has guns as one of it’s beliefs?. If so America is in trouble people. South Dakota has the right idea even tho it is in jest.
Report Post »NoMoreGray
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:50pmAnybody wonder what would happen if the Christian students in that school war crosses at all much less that big.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:50pmOutragous!!! Cupcakes??? Cupcakes are good food. I eat em for breakfast, for lunch, for second lunch and dinner. MMMmmm.
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CatB
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:53pmOh H no .. I would not let my child attend a school that allowed knives as part of a religion .. any religion .. when my child can’t even be armed with a “cupcake” …..so glad I am out of Michigan. NO common sense in the schools. Let me guess DEARBORN? You don’t think when it comes down to it .. those knives (unsharpened my A$$) won’t be used against the Christian students .. I would pull my child out of that school so fast !
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 5:57pmI’m one of those nuts that clings to my Coke, pork rinds, and cupcakes!!!
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:03pmbaseball bats arent sharp.
Report Post »my kids religiously follow baseball.
go ahead kids, bring your bats to school.
Showtime
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:13pmWhat happened to separation of church and state? Oh, that’s right–Our country was founded by Christians. They are Muslim knives. Guess that makes them okay, but not okay for a first-grader to point his finger at a playmate like a gun!
You can’t fix stupid.
Report Post »solaveritas
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:16pmCan someone scream DOUBLE STANDARD!!!
Kids are being suspended for accidentally bringing a paring knife in their lunchbox, but these students get to carry a dagger!!
There is NO religion that REQUIRES a dagger to be carried. Its bull.
There is a difference between BELIEF and PRACTICE of religion. This is beyond a reasonable accommodation (and those are usually restricted to REQUIRED religious activities).
Besides, the knives are not USUALLY sharpened …. thats not good enough. If one kid gets to bring a knife, they all get to bring a knife. Thats called equal protection under the law…. but, where these knives come from….. they don’t know much about that.
Report Post »what4
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:22pmSeem as though they are choosing which religon to accept in their schools…Just try to wear a cross, you’ll probably get tossed!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:24pm@solaveritas
This is more than double standards; this is the progressives way of playing off one group against another to distract and inflame us away from the larger picture and the shadow games they are in the progress of playing. Utter hypocrisy is the most accurate wording of the actions here.
Also, a non-sharp dagger of this type is still capable of being used as a weapon.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:25pmKirpans are protection against muslims…
Report Post »barbaraw62
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:27pmI suggest you email your outrage to the school district at info@pccsmail.net
U.S. Mailing Address
E.J. McClendon Educational Center
454 South Harvey
Plymouth, Michigan 48170 U.S.A.
Phone
(734) 416-2700
Enough emails, calls, etc. may help to see the outrage…cupcakes vs. knives…. a kid pointing his finger and pretending its a gun and he is suspended, but a religious knife… hmmmm
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:28pmIf not now, when?
Report Post »barbaraw62
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:30pmAnd they don’t think that the knives will be used to intimidate children in the school… or the teachers? This is out of control PC……. call them, write them…… this is insanity…..I AM LIVING IN AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE!… (Goes screaming into the night)>
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:33pmSikhs can wear miniature versions around their neck… They don’t need full size shivs..
but, this isn’t about Sikhs at all.. This is about Universalism and making “anything go” in an orgy of discombobulation for society…
Tell a Sikh to were a pendant knife… they can’t argue with that..
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:48pmAnd if a boy scout brought in a small pocket knife he’d be suspended for the year … as a country, America has lost a lot of common sense. For example, for gym class are all the baseball bats, javelins, etc. banned? What about the saws, hammers, etc. in shop class? How about a large pointy pen, or metal rulers in other classes?
Its time to bring some sanity back.
Report Post »MotherRedDog
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 6:53pmSo, T-shirts that had the American Flag on them were banned from a western state during the mexican holiday (might start a riot); a 2nd grader gets suspended for aiming his fingers like he was shooting a gun (that was really dangerous); 2nd graders having oral sex in front of the pervert teacher and nothing happens because it wasn’t dangerous; should I go on??? Muslims bring weapons, no problem. Oh, and how about those damn kids that pray before football games, or the coach who prayed at a meeting off campus. Good grief, do you even know how much damage that will do. Let’s all carry dagers…………aren’t we all mooselimbs now????
Report Post »azmomof6
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:20pmMy seventh grader is a boy scout. You could definitely argue that the values taught in the scouting program are a type of personal religion. Does this mean he should take his pocket knife to school? Maybe his bow and arrows? How about his sling shot?
Report Post »Race
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:25pm@BIKERR Yes, it’s called the Church of Sex & Violence, we preach “love and bullets”. Wanna join? It’s free.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:33pmMy pencil does not have a sharp edge but I guarantee I can kill you with it. How is it a knife without a point? It does not have to be sharp just pointed. Kids get expelled for taking a plastic McD’s knife to school and they allow these to take a knife. I demand I be able to carry my ceremonial gun. I don’t have bullets for it. Well….. maybe.
Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:40pmKnives shouldn’t be a problem, but those cupcakes can be pretty dangerous.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 7:54pmSo what’s the religious aspect of the knife, to circumsize their women????? Give me a break!
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 8:34pmI have a non-denomination 45Cal, can I carry it to school since I am Christian? Besides you never know when a cupcake may attack! We lost a student last week to a renegade Twinky.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:05pmI carried a buck knife every where with me as a kid, including school. I was in plenty of fist fights and never pulled it. Hell my grandpa could carry his rifle to school and leave it in the corner of the school house. The fact the hysterical left will subject normal children to these BS policies is appalling. The fact we now let them and consider this OK is a tragedy. That they will allow Muslims this special treatment that risks ““ THE TERRIBLE DANGERS”” of knives in our schools is damning and criminal. If my kid attended that school he would so be wearing a case buck to school the next day.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:32pmDamn cupcakes! I propose we ban, uh, TWINKIES and HOHO’S also, and make it a crime to say the words………….LITTLE DEBBIE! After all, Twinkies and Hoho’s could be considered as DEADLY WEAPONS (by the progressive crowd)! I think every kid in America has been threatened by a big bully packing a Twinkie, or even worse a CONCEALED HOHO!!! As unbelievably STUPID as this sounds, I’m sure there are schools out there that actually think this way. Scary, huh??? But yet, in the name of religion, these same kids can actually CARRY A WEAPON, and nobody thinks twice about it!! WTF is wrong with this picture??? WAKE UP, DAMN IT! LOOK AT WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS TURNING INTO!!! You can’t eat or carry a CUPCAKE, but you CAN carry a WEAPON???? I don’t get it. Do ANY of you???
Report Post »LB
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:57pmParents of this Michigan community need to pull their kids from the schools in that district. They might loose funding when the enrollment is down. Parents should get together and come up with a homeschool plan or something similar. This is crap and until we start to stand up and take action nothing will change and will get worse.
Report Post »Lars Skipole
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:05pmI‘ll bet they don’t allow Boy Scout knives.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:11pmthe freakin’ twilight zone…….
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:17pmThis is one I agree with you on!! But this is a problem for the local schoolboard, so don’t try to pin this one on Obama! http://wp.me/pYLB7-yC
oldguy49
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:21pmamerican kids can’t even make a gun out of pointing fingers but these people can bring knives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:35pmYou all do realize there is a difference between a Sikh and Muslim don’t you ?
Report Post »The distinction is significant.
Do your homework. PLEASE !
debmcl37
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:48pmI agree with JB
“Parents of this Michigan community need to pull their kids from the schools in that district. They might loose funding when the enrollment is down. Parents should get together and come up with a homeschool plan or something similar. This is crap and until we start to stand up and take action nothing will change and will get worse.”
There is no way I would let my child go to that school or probably any other public school for that matter.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:12pmActually that sounds good.. we need a religion that carries Pig parts and demand the schools allow our kids to carry them in class.. How about some books covers made out of pig skin..
Report Post »FoundersRedPill
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:20pmLets just thank God that Sarah Palin didn’t put cupcake logos on that map.
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:00amBut in a couple years, 3/4 of the kids will be dropped out anyway. They just have to deal with it for a couple more years.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:12amAnother victory for ‘cloward-piven’…
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:
“Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one. (Courtesy Discover the Networks.org)
Report Post »Malachai
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 1:17amAs usual, Blaze is misrepresenting the truth a bit. Cupcakes are not banned. Students can still bring them for lunch if they wish, there are no rules against this. The ban goes against selling them in vending machines, via fundraisers, etc. I will agree it goes too far, but to say that they are banned is not true.
Red Max
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 1:29amHow about a bible?
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:56amThe above story doesn’t say, but it’s probably the ACLU defending their right to carry these knives, the same people trying to remove crosses and the Ten Commandments everywhere. And while we are talking about religious freedom, let‘s bring back Bibles and prayer to Americas’ schools.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:13amI think I would wear a cross as big as their knives and challenge them to throw me out. Then they’d have a fight on their hands! I’m so sick and tired of ignorant people being afraid of these radical religions and letting them do whatever they feel like doing.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 10:29amClaiming themselves to be wise they became fools and their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened !!!
Report Post »Psalm 144 verse 1
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:31pmSo if I were an American Indian would I be allowed to consume peyote during my lunch break to help me with religion class after lunch? Or what about if I were a Rastafarian, I assume it would be ok to bring pot to school and smoke it whenever I felt like it? And I’m sure if I practiced voodoo I could bring chickens to school and cut off their heads at lunch to perform a ritual? And hey, I could use mohameds’ kirpan to do it!
Report Post »docvet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 2:53pmYou folks just don’t get the big picture! Cupcakes can contain toy guns baked in them. Where would all the violence end? And all the school boards are trying to figure out what to do with the hand/finger gun (amputation was voted down). Listen, do you hear the Twilight Zone theme, I do.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:47amCan other children bring their religious “Uzzis” to school in Michigan if they are from Jewish families ? The kids from Inter City Detroit should also be allowed to bring their “religious” guns and knives to school since there wouldn’t be any immediate danger to the other students. Rules that allow one group to be exempt from obeying them will only lead to more security problems for all the students and faculties. The School Board had better reconsider it’s ruling before a student or teacher gets their throat cut with one of those “dull butter knives ”.
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