Trial court properly reversed the school board's expelling of a student under the rule forbidding weapons at school for stabbing another student with a pencil because a pencil was not a "tool," "instrument" or "implement" for the purposes of the rule regardless of whether it was capable of inflicting serious bodily injury. Affirmed.
May 19, 2017 at 12:00 AM
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Student • Expulsion • “Weapon” • Ejusdem Generis
S.A. v. Pittsburgh Pub. Sch. Dist., PICS Case No. 17-0755 (Pa. Commw. May 1, 2017) McCullough, J. (18 pages).
Trial court properly reversed the school board’s expelling of a student under the rule forbidding weapons at school for stabbing another student with a pencil because a pencil was not a “tool,” “instrument” or “implement” for the purposes of the rule regardless of whether it was capable of inflicting serious bodily injury. Affirmed.
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