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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I noticed most of the kids have exacto knives as part of their standard pencil case kit: 14 nearly identical pencils with bunnies on them, an eraser that smells like strawberry, and an edged weapon. Do you ever fear a kid is going to one day flip and cut you? Anyone ever hear of a stressed out kid trying to carve his teacher into a human name chop?

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

Exacto knives are the Korean schoolkid equivalent to the pencil sharpener.

I remember a while back of some Korean kid in the States kicked out of school for having one.

Crois · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 5:32 am Post subject:

I wish they were in some people's hogwons. Laughing

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

nev · Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Location: ch7t

I bring a pencil sharperner to each class with me, and the damn wretches are so excited that they break the points off their pencils and line-up to get it sharpened by me.

I teach kindergarten, not adults, however.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

This is crazy. You sound like Bush....the students have WOMD....should we confiscate them at the door? Metal detectors? Dogs?
Thankfully, Korea is not governed by fear (yet), unlike the US and Canada...if we start viewing the students as "people with weapons", you are opening a Pandora's box. Do you seriously think about this kind of thing? Are you a US citizen?
Change the line of thinking...it's insanely paranoid....I have never heard of a student weilding an exacto knoife on a fellow student or teacher.
Yes, it could happen, but anyone could snap anytime, anywhere and do anything to anyone.
I think the teachers are the ones who should have sharp objects taken away from them. Smile

I generally don't drive my students into blind rage...I don't inspire them enough, I guess.

If this thread was just a joke, then I am sooooooo gullible....sell me a bridge. Wink

Alyallen · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject:

Well....

When I was in H.S. from 95-99, there was an interesting policy added..

No one was allowed to carry a compass to school
from www.m-w.com

Compass - an instrument for describing circles or transferring measurements that consists of two pointed branches joined at the top by a pivot -- usually used in plural; called also pair of compasses

The reason being that the pointy part of it could be used as a weapon Shocked

But I did go to school in Brooklyn (N.Y.C. , USA) , so what can I expect....
But I do think it was a city wide mandate...But this is the same city that had to pass a law that forbid selling box cutters and spray paint to minors...

AlyAllen

ghostshadow · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Location: Seoul

Hey it's still much better then NYC, I remember this girl who came to school (JHS) with a shotgun and was out to get someone, I guess someone really pissed her off. No guns in Korea, not a lot of news about killings. It feels like there are much more suicides then killings in Korea.

Alyallen · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

peppermint · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:47 pm Post subject:

I saw one of my grade 4 munchkins jokingly threaten to cut another one's hand the other day. I took that one away, but in general, I let them have them.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

Alyallen · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject:

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

matthewwoodford · Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Location: Location, location, location.

These 'exacto' knives - aren't they virtually the same as the 'boxcutters' used by the 9/11 terrorists? I ask only out of curiosity.

[disclaimer]No, I do not think they should be confiscated nor that Korean kids are terrorists!!![/disclaimer]

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004