Amber “The Butter-Knife Killah” Dauge
A South Carolina high school freshman has been expelled from school for possession of a butter knife.
“I know I made a really stupid decision, but I don’t think I should be expelled for it,” Amber told WCIV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Charleston
Amber was immediately suspended for five days, pending an expulsion hearing that officials say was mandatory under by the school’s “zero tolerance” policy toward weapons or potential weapons.
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Butter your bread with yer fingers!
“zero tolerance” policy toward weapons or potential weapons.”
and yet they require pencils, pens, and paper – all potential weapons…..
Maybe it’s good this happened. She made a tiny mistake and now has to pay for it the rest of her life. It’s a good lesson she learned early about the future of this country.
Fingers? they still allow kids to come in to school with fingers!?
Fingers have the ability to be tightly closed into the palm to form a weapon that, on the street, is called a “fist”.
Or wrapped around someone elses throat to cut off their breathing or crush their wind pipe, I think thats called a choke, but I could be wrong, you know those kids and their lingo.
There better not be one damned metal scissor in that school!
I think her actions should be dealt with in the most harsh way possible,
I’m thinking 20 – life in Alcatraz.
those of you not from big cities might not know that this kind of crap has long been the norm
for example: those chain wallets skaters & rednecks like so much? banned as a potential weapon since the late 80’s at the high school my brother went to
you people think the coming of a police state is a joke, but rest assured the next generation will be well trained to accept it — urban schools are become more like prisons every year
How do they eat in the school cafeteria?
So it’s ok to bring a fork to school?
RBG
From her father, regarding the school’s decision:
“We hope that there will be some kind of rational thought.”
Yeah. Well good luck on that one.
Make her pick up her old socks before she embarks on a downward spiral and a life of crime and waste.
My school had a 4H club rifle team and an archery team, the metal shop students had to make a swiss army knife as a project, and the chemistry students had to bring their own gas canisters for the portable bunsen burners. That was only twenty years ago…….
Eat with your fingers?
Schools- – -by definition a place to learn?
How do you learn???—by making mistakes.
I often wonder how the general folks viewed their own societies that allowed slavery, or a communistic one party state, or an intolerant religious caliph,===I guess like we do here in GOUSA with leadership by the incompetent?
I guess we mostly live with our heads down making the best way we can?
Yet another good reason to advocate violent revolution…
I’m afraid that I’d have to have my legal counsel force them to PROVE that a butter knife is a “weapon” and what potential threat it entails What idiots.
Next thing will be the intent of how a student looks at other people or, what subversive ideas they’re possibly thinking about. The Thought Police are on their way! Heck, she even looks like a potential threat to national security, lock her up…just in case.
“I know I made a really stupid decision…”
No Amber, you didn’t. The idiots that created a “zero tolerance” policy that includes butter knives made a stupid decision. The moron that enforced it made a stupid decision. The people who elected the school board made a stupid decision. You just wanted to be able to spread peanut butter on bread.
Its about time they cracked down on these young hooligians…. I mean, it all starts with butter a knife, a couple of pieces of a bread, some butter (or maybe lard)…. then next you know they are into jam, peanut butter, crackers…. then from there who knows what they will get into…
Okay let’s play. Instead of a cute white girl, let’s replace her with a black male of the same age with a history of violence and juvenile arrests. Would that make a headline? Try being an administrator and explaining why the white female got off, and the black male was suspended. You can’t use common sense because it isn’t common.
#18 – YES YES YES — I endorse your post 100%
Her parents releasing a picture of the girl with a stray sock in the background would seem to indicate poor judgment runs in the family…Come on, why did she really carry that knife all the way to school?
#23
“Come on, why did she really carry that knife all the way to school?”
Because she’s a freshman and everyone knows what happens to them.
If this kind of thing continues where students are not evaluated on their merit and only on circumstance eventually all students good or bad will find themselves on the short end of the stick. This happens with everything one bad incident happens that no one could predict and everybody looses their heads does a 180 and now a kid draws a water pistol or a butter knife is found a joke is made these are the kids that won’t do these kinds of things it’s the ones who say nothing and are under the radar that will show up at school and take a bunch of students and teachers out.
Actually, the more of this that happens the better. We may FINALLY have a generation that are not sheep, because they witness firsthand what absolute fools their wardens…er..ah..school administrators are. They just might gain some common sense from witnessing adults with a complete lack of it.
On second thought, we might wind up with a generation that thinks all rules are BS. They have the perfect model at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Give her a couple of years and those eyes are going to be deadly weapons, LOL.
Egads, though. A butter knife?
YA know I hear people on here every day screaming Bush and neocons stripping our civil rights but I see things like this along with the smoking Nazis (I saw that people cant even smoke in their home in a California town) and the food police (try and get a decent french fry or corn dog in New York city)
I havent seen a gross reduction in our rights or infringement there of to the populous under Bush (By that I mean how many of you have personally been affected by the warrantless wiretaps, terror watchlist, or any other of the supposed draconian changes to our freedoms)
I have seen a distinct change/reduction in my personal rights by the groups taking away peoples right to smoke, to eat what you want, to have common sense at a school, or even whether I wear my seatbelt.
These are the people that will truly change America and in very tiny steps (for the children or my own supposed safety) and are going to turn our country into a 1984 type society (because we are supposed to be to dumb to know what is good for us) not a president who listens to a few selected conversations between terrorists
think about it, what freedoms were been denied to you today
Did Bush take them away or did some one “doing society a good deed” take them away
#27,
As usual, you are completely full of shit.
I do seem to recall destroying your argument on this subject once before.
If I haven’t and my memory fails me, I really don’t think you’re important enough to bother with it this time around.
Under the one strike law she should be executed immediately. If we don’t who knows what she will do next.
No you haven’t ever discussed this and your weak rebuttal shows your lack of intelligence
if your going to throw stones back them up and don’t be a sissy
you can t rebut my argument because it is true
Wow this just showed how careful you have to be these days. I graduated high school last year, and I came to school a few times with a pretty large half serrated buck knife clipped to the outside of my pocket simply because I forgot to remove it after a fishing trip. If she’s getting expelled for a butter knife what the hell would have happened to me if someone saw it??? It seems a bit ridiculous that theres no second chances when the “weapon” was brought to school obviously with no intent to harm anyone.
On another note, my college lends us weapons as part of our meal plan!!! There’s a whole bucket of them next to the trays!! I couldn’t believe it, there are knife fights every day at lunch its crazy!
#21 “black male of the same age with a history of violence and juvenile arrests.” Common sense would tell you suspend this kid. People no doing that is the reason they made these stupid zero tolerance laws in the first place. Not that he’s black but that he has a history of violence.
This is also the fault of parents (in general). No one has a bad kid if you ask the parent of the murder who filmed himself killing some. They say he’s misunderstood and the police unfairly targeted him.
You went from my dad’s day where a teach would crap the biggest kid in class and throw him against the locker the first day of school to show who is in charge. Now you have parents suing because a teach failed a kid who cheated on a test or doesn’t make the Cheerleader’s squad.
You also have schools getting sued when someone does something bad and they are supposed to have stopped when they didn’t even know about it. So now they have to cover their ass off.