Welcome to Wamsutta Middle School in Attleboro Massachusetts, where bringing a butter knife to school will land you a suspension. That was the fate of 13-year-old student Morgan LaPlaume, who brought the knife with her to cut her pear at lunch. Morgan has braces on her teeth, so she can't just bite into it.
Normally, you'd need a bubble gun, a piece of paper shaped like a gun, or a dangerous looking pop-tart to get this kind of hysteria. In Attleboro, however, it's apparently butter knives that strike fear in the hearts of teachers. The "weapon" violated the school's zero-tolerance policy, so Morgan's assistant principal dragged her into the office and handed her a one day suspension.
She wasn’t brandishing it, she wasn’t threatening anyone with it, she was simply using it to eat her lunch.
“As we were walking to his office," Morgan told WXFT News, "I asked him and he said you are not allowed to have knives in school and I said I was using it to cut my pear, I wasn’t harming any other student and he said I know but it’s the policy.”
Morgan's mother, Melissa LaPlaume, will be meeting with the school guidance counselor on Monday to discuss her daughter's oh-so-outrageous behavior.
Seriously, between Maryland and Massachusetts, you have to wonder what's what they're putting in East Coast educators’ coffee.
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