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Oct. 15th, 2004 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking8-Year-Old Suspended For Having Butter Knife
A Virginia woman is questioning the King William County School District's zero-tolerance policy on "weapons".
Joyce Heath said her 8-year-old son returned to school Wednesday after being suspended for seven days, because he carried a butter knife to school with his lunch.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Nicholas, a third-grader, had been suspended for 10 days and faced the possibility of being placed in disciplinary classes for a year. But Heath met with School Superintendent Brenda Cowlbeck on Tuesday, and the suspension was lifted.
Cowlbeck said she could not comment on the matter because of privacy laws. But she said Tuesday's meeting was her first chance to discuss the matter with the boy's mother.
Heath said she packed a butter knife in her son's lunch along with a package of peanut butter and jelly on Oct. 1. She said Nicholas did not do anything threatening with the knife.
A Virginia woman is questioning the King William County School District's zero-tolerance policy on "weapons".
Joyce Heath said her 8-year-old son returned to school Wednesday after being suspended for seven days, because he carried a butter knife to school with his lunch.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Nicholas, a third-grader, had been suspended for 10 days and faced the possibility of being placed in disciplinary classes for a year. But Heath met with School Superintendent Brenda Cowlbeck on Tuesday, and the suspension was lifted.
Cowlbeck said she could not comment on the matter because of privacy laws. But she said Tuesday's meeting was her first chance to discuss the matter with the boy's mother.
Heath said she packed a butter knife in her son's lunch along with a package of peanut butter and jelly on Oct. 1. She said Nicholas did not do anything threatening with the knife.