Monday, August 31, 2015

10-year-old Girl Expelled after Trimming Violin Strings with Pocket Knife

10-year-old Girl Expelled after Trimming Violin Strings with Pocket Knife

School officials contend the tiny knife the girl brought to a May school orchestra concert violated the state’s Safe Schools Act

10-year-old Girl Expelled after Trimming Violin Strings with Pocket Knife
by Victor Skinner | EAG News.org | August 31, 2015

Parents of a 10-year-old student in Pennsylvania are suing their daughter’s former private school after officials expelled the girl for carrying a 1 ¼ inch blade to an orchestra concert to trim her violin strings.
Brian and Jennifer Cunkelman received a letter this summer informing them that their daughter is no longer welcome at the Valley School of Ligonier she attended last year. School officials contend the tiny knife the girl brought to a May school orchestra concert violated the state’s Safe Schools Act, which imposes a zero-tolerance policy on students who bring “weapons” to school, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports.
The private school allowed Abbigail Cunkelman to finish the school year, but the Cunkelmans argue in court records that the nonsensical expulsion left a “defamatory stigma” in her record that continues to cause issues with enrolling in the Blairsville-Saltsburg School District, according to CBS Pittsburgh.
It’s unclear whether Cunkelman was denied enrollment, or how exactly the May incident impacted her enrollment in the Blairsville-Saltsburg school district.
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5 comments:

Freewill said...

Seeing as they called it a weapon instead of a tool, tell me what crime against another it was used to commit! By legal definition a "weapon" is anything used in the commencement of a crime!

Anonymous said...

These private school officials suffer congenital lack of capacity for reasoning, such communist talmudist shills, ignorant, uneducated and uninformed. Lost it. Exposed for the cowards that they are by attacking a 10 year old artist, they have finally succumbed to the pressures of political correctness and the unfounded melodramatic fear that they have personally nurtured for misdirected personal gain and for profit sucking up to the 'authorities'. Valley School of Ligonier officials you should not be in teaching and you're no longer welcome on my planet for having failed the most basic tests of adult personal character.

Dan said...

Maybe some of you need to file an Official Complaint as every male Politician and Businessman wears a weapon, including many at TSA, and they can't say that a necktie has not been used as a weapon.
I can easily get on an airplane with bringing nothing with me and have plenty of weapons available, as all I have to do is get close enough to grab the necktie and pull as hard as I can and maybe even kill the man.
That is why some have been arrested at TSA searches when they were only wearing underwear as the man removed all weapons.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a case for the thought police.

Anonymous said...

AS A FORMER PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC TEACHER WITH DEGREES IN BOTH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY MUSIC I HAVE TO ASK HOW IN THE HELL IS A MUSIC STUDENT SUPPOSE TO TRIM HER STRINGS...I DID NOT HEAR OF ANY ADMINISTRATOR VOLUNTEER TO BITE THOSE METAL STRINGS OFF....THE PROBLEM WITH MOST SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IS THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO TEACH SO THEY BECOME ADMINISTRATORS..... HELL I CAN USE SCISSORS, PENS, PENCILS, TOOTH PICKS TO HURT OR KILL IF NECESSARY...JUST ABOUT ANYTHING CAN BE USED AS A WEAPON...... WE NEED TO BAN AUTOS AS THEY ARE WEAPONS OF MASS MURDER. THE STINKING COMMIE NAZIS ARE EVERYWHERE AND HAVE SHOVED THEIR STUPIDITY DOWN OUR THROATS FAR TO LONG....I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU FOLKS ARE HEARING AROUND THE COUNTRY, BUT THE SOBS NEED TO GO ALONG WITH THEIR STUPID BS THEY ARE DOING TO US....I SAY THAT ALL ADMINSTRATORS NEED TO HAVE THEIR DESKS CHECKED FOR ANY THNIG THAT ........WE .......THINK IS A WEAPON.AND IF ANYTHING IS FOUND ....FIRE THE BASTARDS.... WHEN I WAS TEACHING....THESE SO CALLED ADMINISTRATORS WERE ....WAY......MORE PROBLEM THAN THEY WERE WORTH....