Middle school student expelled after "random search" uncovers eyebrow shaver.
WPXI reports
It's not a gun or a knife, but an eyebrow shaver that had school officials in Penn Hills take action earlier this month.A Linton Middle School teenager has been expelled after a random search turned up an eyebrow shaver in her handbag.Officials at the Penn Hills school recommended at a Wednesday disciplinary hearing that 15-year-old Taylor Ray Jetter be expelled for the rest of this year and 45 days next year.Jetter said she doesn't consider the eyebrow trimmer a weapon.
She fears expulsion will hurt her chances of becoming a nurse-anesthetist. She's a Girl Scout and a member of the school's basketball team, choir and leadership team."I don't consider it a weapon.
It's not," said Jetter.Jetter's mother, Lisa Ray, said she doesn't believe her daughter has been given a chance.The state's Safe School Act defines a weapon as any knife, cutting instrument, cutting tool, nun chuck, firearms, rifle and any other tool capable of inflicting bodily harm.The student's mother said Wednesday that the policy does not apply to her daughter's shaver."I don't feel my daughter was given a chance," said Lisa Ray.Taylor's youth members spoke on her behalf at the disciplinary hearing.Taylor said bringing the shaver to school was an honest mistake, one she hopes the district can overlook.A district spokesperson released a statement that said, "We had been asked strongly by the community to have a standard disciplinary policy that addresses all students equally and applies a standard disciplinary code and that is what we have in place."
Thanks to jgodsey
WPXI reports
It's not a gun or a knife, but an eyebrow shaver that had school officials in Penn Hills take action earlier this month.A Linton Middle School teenager has been expelled after a random search turned up an eyebrow shaver in her handbag.Officials at the Penn Hills school recommended at a Wednesday disciplinary hearing that 15-year-old Taylor Ray Jetter be expelled for the rest of this year and 45 days next year.Jetter said she doesn't consider the eyebrow trimmer a weapon.
She fears expulsion will hurt her chances of becoming a nurse-anesthetist. She's a Girl Scout and a member of the school's basketball team, choir and leadership team."I don't consider it a weapon.
It's not," said Jetter.Jetter's mother, Lisa Ray, said she doesn't believe her daughter has been given a chance.The state's Safe School Act defines a weapon as any knife, cutting instrument, cutting tool, nun chuck, firearms, rifle and any other tool capable of inflicting bodily harm.The student's mother said Wednesday that the policy does not apply to her daughter's shaver."I don't feel my daughter was given a chance," said Lisa Ray.Taylor's youth members spoke on her behalf at the disciplinary hearing.Taylor said bringing the shaver to school was an honest mistake, one she hopes the district can overlook.A district spokesperson released a statement that said, "We had been asked strongly by the community to have a standard disciplinary policy that addresses all students equally and applies a standard disciplinary code and that is what we have in place."
Thanks to jgodsey
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