Archive for June, 2009

Zero policy for eyebrow clipping

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

So, that title probably has you baffled right? But it honestly isn’t far off. Penn Hills Middle School in Pennsylvania has a zero policy towards weapons–fair enough, right? Which is why they expelled 15-year-old Taylor Ray-Jetter for bringing an eyebrow trimmer to school? ….bwuh?

Taylor was immediately suspended and was expelled Wednesday.

The punishment has her worried about her future.

“I want to be an anesthesiologist –a nurse anesthetist and I feel like it’s going to be on my record so it’s going to dampen a lot of things I wanted to do for myself and I’m very upset,” she said. “I did not come up there to hurt anybody.”

Taylor is a member of the basketball team, 9-year Girl Scout, a youth usher, a member of the choir and leadership team, among other activities.

The superintendent says the tool is a weapon and Taylor’s punishment is all apart of a very strict zero tolerance policy.

Yea, those 9-year old Girl Scout’s with eyebrow trimmers–that’s who you’ve got to watch out for!