Girl Suspended for Bringing Butter Knife to School

A Massachusetts middle school vice principal suspended a student Wednesday for the grave offense of bringing a knife to school—a butter knife. "I said, 'I was using it to cut my pear, I wasn't harming any other student," Morgan LaPlaume tells Fox 25. "He said, 'I know, but it's the policy." The principal says the vice principal was following the rules established in the student handbook, which every parent signs, but LaPlaume's mother thinks common sense exceptions should be made. "It's a butter knife. She has braces. She was cutting her pear," she says. "There was no intent at all there." (It's one in a line of recent questionable suspensions.)