CRIMINAL CHARGES Loom for 11-Year-Old Girl Suspended for Cutting Peach With Kid-Proof Knife
16th November 2016
In the latest incident of anti-weapon hysteria to erupt in a school setting, officials at a middle school in South Florida have suspended an 11-year-old girl for six days because she brought a child-proof, toddler-size cutlery knife to school and used it to cut a peach in half for a friend.
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School officials say they suspended the girl for six days — and notified police — because she violated a countywide weapons policy when she used the toddler knife to cut a peach in half for her friend.
“The school followed district policy regarding this incident and continues to work with the student and parents involved,” a Broward County school district spokeswoman said in a statement obtained by WPLG. “It is the district’s priority to maintain safe and secure campuses for students and staff at all times.”
This is the sort of absurdity that forms the undercurrent of Orwell’s 1984 — the creation of a system in which individual rationality is inadequate to determine what course of action might avoid punishment, all tending toward a mindless lethargy punctuated by occasional anxious obedience to authority. Hail Hydra!