Pocket Knives in School?

[vicdotcom]

I used to carry one in school. But I am a teacher now in FL and there is a zero tollerance policy. I have to leave my home everyday. I do have a multitool in the car though.

Sad days.

 

[TimboKhan]

I know for a fact that there is a high school kid in this forum that carries a knife with him at least occasionally in school. You would never know he was a high school kid reading his posts though..

 

[KevinAbbeyTech]

And SHHHHHSH, don't tell anyone, but if we were going hunting after school, we had guns in the car.

Heck, they used to let out for hunting season.

 

[therealdoublel]

carry a little folder clipped onto my pocket every day. haven't had any administration say anything, one teacher asked me what it was, i replied 'a knife'

 

[LoneCoon]

I always carried a multi tool or a pocket knife in school (Class of 2000). Although I did go to a smaller more "rural" school, rather than a larger inner city one.

I wouldn't want to try that now, as everyone would up and lose their minds. Sad how much things changed in less than a decade.

 

[lesterg3]

Carried a 4 inch frog sticker from the 6th grade on. Wish I still had that knife, lost it in the Philippines.

 

[Todd A]

And SHHHHHSH, don't tell anyone, but if we were going hunting after school, we had guns in the car.

Heck in high school I stored mine in my gym locker. One Friday I had my .22 wrapped up in my jacket with the barrel sticking out.Walked by our school resource officer (local PD sargent) when he saw it he just asked if we were going out camping again that weekend.

I guess 1987 was a very long time ago, that was the first year our school had a resource officer.

Fast forward to 2007......My son at six years old was sent to the office because he would not hand over a bladeless multi-tool to his teacher. If he turned it over he would have been allowed to return to class. Since he is a mini-me he refused.

The principal and I had a chat. Her point was that the philips head screwdriver was pointy and a "weapon".

My point was that my son bought it with his own money, that it was packaged with a book on how to repair your bike. And that my son bought the book(with the weapon) in the school library at the Scholastic Book Fair. :banghead:

When I asked her why the school sold my son a dangerous weapon she had no response.:banghead:

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

In my high school (mid 1970s) there was a sort of clique of guys who wore T-shirts, Levi's big bells and engineer boots and carried Buck 110s (folded and in the sheath). They would spend hours flicking the blades out until the pivot polished and loosened up, to the point where a good wrist flick was almost as fast as a switchblade. There were never any actual incidents that I knew of. This would never fly today.

I was not one of them - I was a nerd.

 

[KevininPa]

Always in the 70's

guess it doesn't work out as well in these " politically correct " days. Remember all you twenty somethings, it's up to you to change things. FREAKIN' VOTE !

 

[Dimis]

secretly yes i carried many throughout my school days but i couldnt be caught with them or id be violating the weapons code but i wouldnt dare go without my swiss army knife of some sort or brand even if it was against the rules

"Never leave home without a knife" -Special Agent Gibbs Rule #9 NCIS
lol

 

[BullpupBen]

Well I know its not the same thing, but here at COLLEGE I have my Lone Wolf T1 clipped onto my pocket most every day through classes and everything else. Of course doing the same thing when I was in high school would probably have gotten me expelled very quickly..

Reading about the years when you could carry your shotgun in your car to go hunting after school and all of these other stories really makes me wish I was born about 40-50 years earlier, back before this ridiculous obsession with "political correctness" penetrated every inch of society.

 

[bensdad]

Carried a very small Imperial when I was little (elementary school). Went from that to a big Imperial (3.5in. blade with a fish-scaler) in jr. high and high school. My 6yo son now has the small Imperial I had (I kept it for him). He knows to never take it to school. I'll give him the large Imperial when the time is right. After that, he's on his own. He can't have my "big-boy" knives.

 

[pictoblu]

Having been in elementary school in the 1960's, yes. When I got into Scouting, always carried a Scout knife. Always, and then always into high school and beyond. Seldom fly and so just about always have 2-4 knives on me these days.

 

[scottishclaymore]

I am younger than most of you guys, but I am a very happy graduate of home education. Thus, you see, the last time I can recall not having a knife since I was given my first on my ninth birthday was the last time I had to fly. Other than that... Never left the house without at least one folder and/or a multitool.

 

[pmeisel]

USN survival knife given to me by my uncle Chief Ernest Bollinger. Carried daily for over 10 years, then occasionally for 20 more until it flat wore out. Survived by many siblings.

 

[MartyH]

I'm currently in a junior in high school and every once in awhile I'll carry a knife to school. However when I do I make sure it's something small and harmless looking. I know last year in the student handbook for my school knives with blades under two inches long where allowed. I'm not sure if the rule still applies though.

 

[Davek1977]

I ALWAYS had a knife in my pocket. I grew up on a ranch, and carrying a knife was (and is) second nature to me. Is wasn't exactly kosher with school policy (graduated 1996) but teachers were more than happy to look the other way...until they needed a knife and asked to borrow one from a student LOL. In all honesty though, knives were so commonplace they never raised an eyebrow. Heck, I wasn't the only kid who drove to school (21 miles for me, one way) and kept a firearm or 3 in the vehicle. I drove by/through much of our ranch on the way to and from school, and it only made sense to travel armed so that I could hunt on my way home without driving all the way home and then backtracking. It wasn't uncommon to see shotguns and rifles in gun racks in the school parking lot...again, not in line with offical policy, but always tolerated. I often had a revolver in the glove box, loaded, as well, as I had my CCW most of my senior year (eligible at 18 in SD). All in all, it was a different world 13 years ago, and because no one ever misused any of the equiupment in question (knives and guns) no one ever made an issue out of it.

 

[red_metallic]

Yep, a 2-blade Case that I still have somewhere.

 

[PRM]

Rural South - Yep!!! Just about everybody had a pocket knife and no-one thought anything about it (Late 60s early 70s). If it was squirrel or rabbit season and you were lucky enough to have a pick-up truck or car, there was a good chance it contained a shotgun or .22 rifle (on school property).

 

[red_metallic]

PRM, to that point I was raised in the San Joaquin valley in CA. I can recall walking to a friend's house once with my loaded .22 where we both proceeded to walk another mile or so out into the fields to shoot. Along the way we did get stopped by a sheriff deputy who told us to be careful and aim away from the roads! This would have been the early 70's. Now you'd see this and helicopters -

 

[bill in IN]

Being a farm kid, you could probably be expelled for not having one. The teachers all knew who had the sharpest one, so I don't think they cared as long as you let them borrow it. In high school, guns were allowed in the shop classes, make a stock, do a little gun-smithing, or history classes. That was before they were demonized.

 

[JTW Jr.]

My point was that my son bought it with his own money, that it was packaged with a book on how to repair your bike. And that my son bought the book(with the weapon) in the school library at the Scholastic Book Fair.

When I asked her why the school sold my son a dangerous weapon she had no response.

Now that is some funny stuff right there. Our school system at it's best ! Good on your mini-you ( son ) for taking a stand.
Please give him a high five from me.

 

[metallic]

Carried a little miniature swiss army knife all through middle school and high school. Around my senior year, they started cracking down on blade length so I kept my knife out of sight just to be safe. I graduated in 2001.

During college, it was very common to see men carrying pocket folders around campus. Pretty smart, considering that the edges of campus were hotbeds for crime. Plenty of students robbed.

 

[Geneseo1911]

I have carried a 2.5-3" folder (I've worn a couple out..) with a pocket clip every day since 7th grade. I graduated HS in 2001. I also carried it for four years (oops actually five)while at the University of Illinois. I'm still employed here, and it's by my side as I type this. I think most of the country hasn't gone completely crazy yet.

I use my knife every day, my jeans are worn out (so is the knife...) where the pocket clip slides on, and I feel naked without it. The knife guys on here would chew me out if they saw the shape it's in.

One of my favorite knife stories is when the ag teacher in HS was working on the fish tank (we raised Tilapia for our FFA fish fry fundraiser) and asked for a knife. When he turned around he had a choice of about 20. He said, "you guys know you're not supposed to carry those, right?" and then grabbed the closest one.

Of course, we also had our shotguns in our trunks more often than not. We would often shoot clays or go hunting after school. I was however a little worried when the county's drug dogs came through to sniff lockers and cars. They must not have been trained to sniff out guns. They did find a baloney sandwich in a guy's center console, though.

 

[Hoxviii]

I carried one every day from 7th grade on; I graduated in 2004.

Supposedly we had a "zero tolerance policy" and all that mumbo jumbo, but all of the teachers and administrators knew I carried one to the point that I'd often have teachers ask for a knife during class since they weren't allowed to be in possession of one.

This was in a suburban, snobbish school district outside of St. Louis- classes graduating about 350students. I guess no one ever complained, but I know of plenty of people that got in it deep for having nail files and little pen knives on them.

Hooray for double standards, i guess.