There were occasionally shotguns and rifles in the pickup trucks of some country students, at my high school.
Same here, only is more than just occasionally.
And we sharpened our pocket knives in shop class.
Heck, I even machined and fabricated an entire roughly 1/3 scale Civil War cannon as my shop project - and test fired it in the empty field just outside the school fence with a bunch of students, teachers and even the school’s principle watching and a reporter from our newspaper covering the event and taking pictures.
Times change.
When my husband ws in elementary school in Ga, he and his male classmates would bring their shotguns to school and put them in the corner of their class so they could go hunting after school to help provide food for their families.
In my high school, the guys all had their hunting rifles on a gun rack on the back window of their trucks.
Of course, one big demographic was missing......