Virginia Student Gets Suspended for Taking Razor From Kid Who Was Cutting

Note to American tweens: Don’t be a Good Samaritan on the
state’s watch. A sixth grader at a Virginia Beach public school

was suspended this week for having a razor blade. She took
the blade from another student who was cutting himself with
it. Bad move, apparently. 

The Bayside Middle School student, Adrionna Harris, said she
took a razor blade away from another student because he was using
it to cut himself. She threw the blade away and told school
officials. Then she was suspended for 10 days, with a
recommendation for expulsion, according to Virginia Beach news
station WAVY. 

Note that Harris didn’t even have the razor blade in her
possession when she went to school administrators. The only
evidence this razor blade existed is Harris’ own admission of it,
when she told school officials what had happened and that she had
already thrown it away.

“I was very shocked that a student would get suspended for
saving another child,” Rachael Harris, Adrionna’s mother, told
WAVY. “The school system over-reached absolutely.”

On Wednesday night, Virginia Beach City Public Schools agreed to
move Adrionna’s suspension hearing, which was scheduled for next
week, to Thursday night.