Nonsense, says angry dad
A Georgia middle-school student has been suspended for four days after inadvertently bringing a knife to school and promptly telling his teacher. Jack Persyn, 13, told his teacher he found the small pocketknife in a schoolbag that his aunt had bought at a yard sale. “I can see a one-hour detention if they had to do something,” said his father, Bill Persyn. “But this is nonsense.”
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