Thursday, May 15, 2003

PC CHILD ABUSE

Twelve-year-old Sarah Akins, a sixth-grader at Connolly Middle School in Tempe, Ariz., "found a 2-inch pocketknife . . . in the front pocket of her backpack during lunch," the East Valley Tribune reports. Half an hour later, she showed the knife to her teacher, who sent her to the principal's office, where she was confined for the rest of the day:

"The principal interrogated her, tried to intimidate her into admitting she had brought it from home," [father] Larry Akins said. "She has been ostracized from her friends. She was treated as if she was a terrorist." Sarah said she wasn't allowed to stand up, go to the bathroom, get a drink or call her parents. "I asked them if I could call home, and they wouldn't let me call," she said.

For "possession of a dangerous instrument capable of intimidating or inflicting bodily harm to another person," the school suspended her for the remainder of the year, though it later shortened the sentence to time served--12 days

Via The WSJ

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