“zero tolerance policy against bringing weapons onto school property — a class 5 felony.”
Is ANY knife a felony? I don’t see that the article listed the size of the knife. I assume if he bought it at K-Mart, it was a fairly basic pocket knife...?
My kid brought a knife to school a few years ago, and showed it off to some friends. The school was reasonable about it. No arrest, ankle bracelets, felony records, etc. Its still a crazy world where they can’t even have a knife (this was a leatherman/swiss army kind of contraption), but at least they didn’t go bonkers over it.
I had a son who was suspended in school for bringing a toy gun to school. This was back in the 1980s, when all of this nonsense started.
This “gun” looked like the sort I would have seen in the 1950s on the “Captain Video” TV show, a cheesy outer space voyager series. IOW, this blue, soft plastic gun looked about as much like an actual firearm as the bitten Pop-Tart that got a youngster in trouble some time ago.
As for the victim of this story, I can only conclude that he does not belong to one of the protected groups.