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Brickbat: Not the Sharpest Knives

Charles Oliver | 4.5.2013 7:40 AM


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Officials at Wamsutta Middle School in Massachusetts suspended Morgan LaPlaume for one day after they caught her with a butter knife. The girl was only using the knife to cut a pear, but officials say the school has a zero tolerance policy on knives.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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