Have we lost our collective minds?

NEWARK, Del. – A Delaware first-grader who wanted to eat lunch at school with his favorite camping utensil, a combination of folding fork, knife and spoon, now faces 45 days in the district's alternative school for troublemakers.

What sort of completely cockeyed and neutered moron could mistake a camping utensil for a weapon? Ms. packratty has been informed that in the 1930s, young lads routinely brought their pocketknives to school so that they might play an old-fashioned game called Mumblety-peg. In Ms. Packratty's own youth, any young gentleman would have a penknife in his pocket - very handy for trimming paper, opening parcels and multitudinous other minor chores. No one ever imagined that such a thing would be called a weapon.

Of course, Ms. Packratty clearly remembers her beloved grandfather telling her that there is little common about common sense. However, sending a 6 year old child to reform school over a Cub Scout device strikes her as madness. Sheer and utter madness.