Girl “stabbed” on school bus
We had to dig numerous broken off pencil points out of our skin when we were younger. It seemed like being stabbed with a pencil was some sort of right of passage. So it seems like this story isn’t exactly newsworthy, except for the fact that the school seems to be making an incredibly big deal out of a small incident.
Late Tuesday afternoon Fulton County School officials were alerted that a 8-year-old girl had been stabbed with a pencil by an 8-year-old boy during the ride home.
Wednesday morning district spokeswoman Susan Hale said the pencil did not pierce the girl’s skin but she was checked out by a physician because of a pre-existing health concern.
“We understand now that her mother took her to see a doctor, not an ambulance,” she said.
Hale said an investigation into the incident is ongoing. School officials are talking to several of the children who were on the bus to determine whether the boy’s actions were intentional or accidental. The bus is equipped with video surveillance but did not capture the incident, Hale said.
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