Knife-carrying student gets suspended; would rather get GED than go to Northeast High School

As if we needed another example of how zero-tolerance policies regarding weapons at schools can make for messy situations, The Kansas City Star has an eyebrow-raising story today about Lincoln College Prep sophomore Ana Morales, who was caught bringing a knife to school and then suspended and exiled permanently.

Make no mistake, this is not a “girl has a butter knife in her locker” tale. Morales brought a rainbow-colored knife that had a switchblade-style spring on it. She tells the paper that she couldn’t get the release mechanism to work, so she pulled the blade out like one would with a pocketknife. And she admits that that it was dumb to keep the damn thing in her bag in the first place.