Asian cutlery related-Religious intolerence in Canada?

Looks like another case of children knowing best until they are "educated".

Note that religious knives are prohibited from airlines and appear on the list Pierre quoted, as are replicas which has been interpreted rather broadly. I've heard of miniatures and kirpans fused to the sheath being carried by Sikhs. I don't know if there are different branches of the religion that find them unacceptable.

I guess a legal difference may be that using the public transport system is "voluntary" but seeing that a child is educated is mandatory? (I'm guessing mandatory in Canada, too.) But a rental agreement is voluntary, and discrimination there isn't questioned to be wrong.

I'm sure a similar case will occur in the US.

As I've said before, in these times it seems that
"zero tolerance"= zero brains.
 
The term "Zero Tolerance" should ring an alarm every time it is heard by decent thoughtfull people. It is invariably a cowardly excuse to punish an innocent person for a technical infraction of some rule that common sense would preclude enforcing. In my daughter's school there are students who steal, do and sell drugs in and out of school, and who are violent toward other students. They are invariably untouchable because the administration is afraid of them and their parents. These people are street and court smart and know how to get someone fired or cause them other grief. Let an otherwise inoffensive student commit a technical violation of the rules and they will be persecuted to the fullest because no one is afraid of them or their families. Decent people need to band together and hold courts and schools accountable for their actions toward the vast majority of their students who just want to be safe and get an education.
 
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