HONORS PUPIL BOOTED OVER PARING KNIFE LONGMONT GIRL, 10, HAD MOM'S LUNCH BOX; EXPULSION ADVISED.(Local)

Byline: Associated Press

LONGMONT -- A fifth-grade honor roll student has been expelled from school after she picked up her mother's lunch box by mistake and found a paring knife.

Shanon Borchardt Coslett, 10, thought she was doing the right thing Thursday when she found the knife and immediately reported it to a teacher at Twin Peaks Charter Academy.

``I took my mom's lunch box (by mistake),'' Shanon said, sobbing on the front steps of the school Thursday afternoon.

She said she sat down for lunch and opened the box not knowing what was…