http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1204/194223.html
The people of the free world thank the Philadelphia police and their ever watchful school system.
EDITED TO FIX THE LINK.
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Tom
Pa. Police Apologize for Scissors Arrest
UPDATED - Tuesday December 14, 2004 9:25am
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The police chief and the head of the city’s schools apologized Monday to the mother of a 10-year-old girl who was arrested and handcuffed after she brought a pair of scissors to school in her backpack.
Although officers were following protocol when they drove the girl to a police station with her hands cuffed in front of her, discretion will be used in future cases involving young children, Police Chief Sylvester Johnson said.
Johnson said he told Rose Jackson that the arrest of her daughter, Porsche Brown, was “extremely unfortunate” and apologized for “any trauma that her daughter experienced” on her way to the station.
The district said Brown had violated a ban on bringing scissors - which are considered potential weapons - to school.
The girl’s mother had voiced outrage at her daughter’s arrest.
“My daughter cried and cried,” Rose Jackson earlier told a Philadelphia newspaper. “She had no idea what she did was wrong. I think that was way too harsh.”
Police officers decided Thursday that the girl hadn’t committed a crime, and let her go.
Thanks, Ava.
try www.bugmenot.com
Never register to a free site again 
Wow, I think I may like that site. Thanks, Tom
I changed the link. You shouldn’t need to register for this one.
Ummm… I’ll go and do my homework now… >_>
Oh yeah. I remember this article. 
Did they finally catch up with that evil and dangerous Cat Stevens?
Philo
Nah. They were too busy shaking down Christy Moore.
Slan,
D.
That’s just insane. Reminds me of that first grader a few years ago who was suspended for “sexual harrassment” because he kissed another first grader on the cheek. Where do these school administrators put their brains, anyway?
Redwolf
In their undergarments.
“My daughter cried and cried,” Rose Jackson earlier told a Philadelphia newspaper. “She had no idea what she did was wrong. I think that was way too harsh.”
This nags at me: how would a ten-year-old not know scissors were banned at her school? After all, students are informed along these lines, right?
I wouldn’t count on it.
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“My daughter cried and cried,” Rose Jackson earlier told a Philadelphia newspaper. “She had no idea what she did was wrong. I think that was way too harsh.”
This nags at me: how would a ten-year-old not know scissors were banned at her school? After all, students are informed along these lines, right?
On a newsgroup[ where this incident was mentioned, the mother was quoted as saying something like “but scissors are on the recommended/required school supply list!”
Oh good grief! :roll: They couldn’t really be quite that stupid could they? 
Well we are talking about public school here. As an Alumni of an Eastern Pennsylvania School Diskrict, I say.
YOU BET YOUR GRINTER THEY’RE THAT STUPID.
Here in Penssyltuky we learn our studn’ts dem tree R’s:
Reedin’ Ritin’ and dat dare dang 'Rithmetic.
Enjoy
Cy
I remember a fellow classmate bringing a BB gun to my class. He shot couple of people with it and the teachers didn’t even scold him for that – he was a son of this notorious gangsta family in the hood. :roll: