Knife at School!

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The_Sheriff

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Today at school I was standing in line for lunch outside when a student that I somewhat know pulled out a small kinife without a pocket clip, he then flung it open and showed it off to his friends (kind of shady folks) the following are his exact words "Freeze bitch or I'll shank you!" sarcastically. I was just watching him :uhoh::uhoh::uhoh:. I thought to myself "huh maybe it is ok if I bring my knife to school???".

Later after school I walked into the office and politely asked the secretary if it was ok to have a pocket knife as a tool at school? Her eyes lit up and she said rather loud "stay right there, I want you to see the Vice Principal". I agreed and told him why I asked the question and he asked if I saw someone with one, I told him the whole story and he told me I could leave and that tomorrow he was going to do a locker and a body search with the school resource officer. His locker is right next to me.

What does everyone think???
 
I carry a knife to school everyday. Though I don't show it off, it is there the whole time. I think you went too far, but that's just my opinion. If it was just him with some friends, he was joking around. I think you should have talked to him, but I don't know about going all the way up.

Edit: How old are these students? I'm guessing middle school?
 
My shop teacher in High school let us carry small pocket knives. He told us if any body had a problem with it to talk to him. But that was 7 years ago.
 
Trust me if I had it my way I would OC a full size 1911 to school everyday, but somehow I don't that that is ok! haha

The kid is kind of gangster though and someone did get cut with a pocket knife last year, and no it was not an accident!
 
What age are the kids? Sounds like high school, and if thats the case they probably aren't permitted to carry a knife...considering their actions I think it would be smart to have the knife taken away. If they were responsible(if this was the case you wouldn't know that they had it) I would say to let it go.
 
ok true story. first of all i used to take a pocket knife to school when i was a kid. i remember taking it out and giving it to the shop teacher to use. and he would just give it back. However those times have changed. In schools up to high school (may vary by state). Its not only against school policy but against the law to have a knife on campus. A freind of mines kid. Had a pocket knife at school a few years back. He was a good kid. Did a lot of work around for people including his folks. He was the type like i was that had a pocket knife. Well somehow he got caught with it at school. His parents had to come pick him up. With the police department waiting. They gave him a citation. The kid had to go to court. Last i heard he pleaded guilty to having a knife on a public school grounds. This was a felony. Amazing i think the kid was like 13 or 14. He was on probation for a long time. One thing for sure. It makes you open your eyes to what is against the law and what is not. Now you guys got me thinking i otta call up my freind and see how hes doing and his family.
 
When I went to school, if there was a boy at school WITHOUT a pocketknife it would have been because he forgot to put it in his pocket that morning.

We used to play a knife game called "stretch" or "splits" on the playground, which involved throwing a knife and sticking it in the ground. Think your school administrators would come unglued about that?

Nobody ever got stabbed. Plenty of fights, but not with knives, even though every kid had one on him.
 
I know, if it would have been a good kid that just had it in his pocket I would have kept my mouth shut if he just left it in his pocket and seemed responsible. I carry one every day after school and told the VP about this.

What does everyone think his penalties will be?
 
Since I Was Twelve

Got my first pocket knife on my 12th birthday, in November of 1961.

Carried it with me, everywhere, in school, out of school, camping, dances, you name it. Used it at school for, you know, knife tasks.

I still have it.

The reason I still have it is that, on the day our house burned down the following year, it was in my pocket. At school.

I had one. We all did. The teachers had theirs. Heck, I imagine even the librarian had one.

We didn't have squeamish faculty.

We had kids who were learning to be adults, and adults helping them learn how.

Sort of, you know, like it's supposed to be.
 
depends on the laws in your state. what you may want to do is check you student body handbook. At the begining of each school year the first day of school they give you paperwork. You can get copies of this paperwork at your school administration office. Inside you will find all the stuff that you can and cant do. May even say its a felony to have a gun and or a knife on school campus. Either way with all the school shootings and stuff that have transpired over the past decade. Schools are encouraged to make examples out of kids not only breaking school rules. but breaking the law. The vice principal would be obligated to call the police department if a kid is caught with a knife. The police have to write a report call the kids parents he will get cited get suspended and have to go see the judge. After that its up to the judge, probation for 90 days, pay a fine heck you could even get community service. Either way if your under age in todays society you should not have a knife in school.
 
Got my first pocket knife when I was 7 or so. Don't believe I've ever been without a knife since.
 
I had a small Swiss pocket knife. You know the 1" blade, file, and scissors... anyhow I carried it with me through high school, just a few years ago, but I made the decision that I would carry it in complete secrecy, and if I was caught I'd live up to the punishment.
I think being a good kid in a suburban school with a simple pocket knife (not something "fancy" by school officals like a Gerber or something) would get a phone call home, but that was a risk I was willing to take to carry my little knife.
 
Not too long ago (3 years, my where has time gone?) when I was in high school, I almost always had a knife or multitool on me. My excuse was that I was a techie in theater and you never knew what needed cut or repaired. Of course school policy was no knives, but that instructor had a don't ask, don't tell policy (I'm pretty sure she knew though, considering I loaned it to her a couple of times, but she never asked about it ;)).

Zip7 said:
We used to play a knife game called "stretch" or "splits" on the playground, which involved throwing a knife and sticking it in the ground.

Was that anything like Mumbly peg?

Jay
 
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Kinda funny that when I started up school last fall, our instructor was in the process of opening a bag of rivets and asked if anyone had a knife. I had my Leatherman on me, and as he handed it back after use he asked if anyone else had one. When everyone else shook their heads no, he asked, "why not?" :confused:

He then proceeded into a 15-minute tangent of what would be good to have, what was out there, and price ranges. :scrutiny::)

Granted, it's an aviation mechanic school, but still...
 
The other kid is an idiot.

Whether what you did was appropriate depends upon your intentions.

What happens to the other kid depends upon the school system rules, local and state law and his history with the school. It could range from nothing to a warning to suspension to criminal prosecution. You'll have to research the school rules and the local law if you want to know.
 
Thirty five years ago every boy had a pocket knife at school, and we'd play mumbly peg at recess, or after school or both. If you got caught in high school with a condom, you were done, go find a job!

Today, if you have a small Swiss Army pen knife, you get expelled, but they hand out condoms in 6th grade.

DOES ANYBODY SEE A PROBLEM BESIDES ME? :banghead:

LD
 
LD

Yep but its the kids too. These days you cant trust all of them. No one in our time would have even thought about stabbing someone. A knife was a tool. For cutting stuff and opening stuff. You were not proud to have a knife you were proud on how sharp your knife was and how many times you used it. Today kids that have knives open them from the box. Then the only thing that gets practiced is how fast they can open and close it and how manly they look with them. There are not that many people who have knives that actually use them or can really get them sharp. when i was a kid i had a Shrade old timer. not the small one either. That knife got plenty of use out of it plenty. I spent countless hours keeping it sharp. You could shave with that knife. Today you buy knives out of the box that are razor sharp. The kids dont know how they got that way. just know when its not razor sharp its time to throw it away and get another one.

Maybe if went back to teaching kids that knives are tools. You only need 1 kinfe in life thats it thats all you get. So you had to learn how to keep it up and make it sharp. You own it Nobody else does you take care of it like the way you brush your teeth. Keep it in your pocket and only use it when you need to. Otherwise you only keep it in your pocket. Just like whats in between your legs. You use it when you need to and you dont go showing it off to everyone.
 
Sounds like "kid B" was a posturing idiot. But aside from that, Sheesh, my school had a regulation on knives. If you had one it had to be in a snap-closed "holster" or sheath attached to your belt (open carry in other words).

Okay we were a farm community and knives were just everyday tools, but I wonder what some of these folks would have thought about us boys ALL walking around with some sort of (usually medium sized) knife.

Heck I carried a fixed blade Case leather hunter for most of high school.

Oh and nobody, ever, got knifed.
 
We had kids who were learning to be adults, and adults helping them learn how.

Sort of, you know, like it's supposed to be.

Thats the smartest thing I have heard in a while.
 
ZeSpectre said:
knives were just everyday tools...Oh and nobody, ever, got knifed.

You bring up the crux of the debate. You are always responsible to do the legal and appropriate thing.

I wore a Buck 110 or a similar knife through much of my youth, I even carried knives that might now be deemed illegal. Yeah, I suppose I could have done a nickel if I used one, but then everybody carried something.

I find it funny that during that period of real danger no one ever got knifed either.

I carry an EDC now. In fact there are four knives and one pistol on my computer table as I type this.

However, how long does it take to unclasp a Graham or an Emerson from your pocket when entering a school or a Post Office?

You're either lazy or smug.
 
How old are you? Don't worry about it. I wouldn't give the kid's name for just having the knife, because he will probably get himself in trouble anyway.

However, you should be fine to carry a small knife as a tool very concealed if you aren't a trouble maker. Your choice.
 
conwict said:
you should be fine to carry a small knife

Thank you, Clarence Darrow. You might be getting this guy jammed up in a "zero tolerance" area.

Like it or not, that rule may indeed apply.

Look, I break the posted speed limit daily. When on my bike probably dozens of times every time I ride.

But if caught, I get a ticket, and I pay them. I've only fought two of them in my entire lifetime.

If you're dumb enough to willfully carry any knife into a zero-tolerance area, then pay the piper.
 
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