4th-grader arrested for having scissors at school

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

A 10-year-old girl was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to her elementary school.

School district officials said the fourth-grade student did not threaten anyone with the 8-inch shears, but violated a rule that considers scissors to be potential weapons.

Administrators said they were following state law when they called police Thursday, and police said they were following department rules when they handcuffed Porsche Brown and took her away in a patrol wagon.

"My daughter cried and cried," said her mother, Rose Jackson. "She had no idea what she did was wrong. I think that was way too harsh."

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Still more evidence of how our schools are far more about discipline and authority than they are about learning. Man, this is just absurd and it's getting worse. Anybody care to join me in my one man movement for the abolition of public schools?

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