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Small Knife Lunchbox Student Suspended - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 10th Feb, 2011 - 12:25am
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And charged with a misdemeanor....
Small Knife In Lunchbox Gets Student Suspended
Do you agree with what happened to this teenager or do you think the whole thing was blown out of proportion? Take into consideration the student doesn't have a criminal record so this is the first time she is going through this.
QUOTE A standout North Carolina high school student has been suspended for the remainder of her senior year and charged with a misdemeanor for having a small paring knife in her lunchbox.
Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford told WRAL she accidentally took her father's lunchbox to Southern Lee High School in October instead of her own when school officials searched the lunchbox, along with several other students' possessions, possibly looking for drugs.
Ashley's father, Joe Smithwick told the station the lunchbox had a paring knife inside so that he could slice up an apple that accompanied it.
"It's just an honest mistake. That was supposed to be my lunch because it was a whole apple," he said.
But school officials didn't see it that way....
Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford told WRAL she accidentally took her father's lunchbox to Southern Lee High School in October instead of her own when school officials searched the lunchbox, along with several other students' possessions, possibly looking for drugs.
Ashley's father, Joe Smithwick told the station the lunchbox had a paring knife inside so that he could slice up an apple that accompanied it.
"It's just an honest mistake. That was supposed to be my lunch because it was a whole apple," he said.
But school officials didn't see it that way....
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Post Date: 30th Dec, 2010 - 7:06pm / Post ID: #
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School across this nation do not mess around any more. Even if this was a honest mistake the family will have to take it up with the school board. The good thing is she is only 17 so this "incident" will be on her Juvenile record and sealed when she is 18. I hope that they can get her back in school to finish the education. Keeping her from that is the real tragedy.
Post Date: 31st Dec, 2010 - 1:11am / Post ID: #
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I agree with you KNtoran. I think that they over reacted big time. I mean, if they really want to suspend her, they should have taken... Maybe 2 weeks tops. I remember leaving school for a week and having a hard time catching up, that alone should help keep this from happening again, but the rest of the school year?! Give the child the benefit of the doubt so she doesn't have to miss graduating with all of her friends! Not to mention she might not go back to school because of what happened.
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I find the whole thing ridiculous, even though I understand the safety concerns I think a child like her who did not have a prior record, was a good student, etc and did not utilize the knife in a threatening manner shouldn't be punished like this. I would be interested in reading statistics of weapon-related crimes in schools, maybe it could add a different perspective.
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