Do they use palate knives at the Arizona school of the arts for painting?
Do the use carving knives for teaching Kachina carvings?
The whole thing is ridiculous.
When LIBERALS who hate all things normal in America get out in charge they claim that the only tolerance you are to have with the states enforcement is that of homosexuality.
These low-ball scum thoroughly enjoy their power over your lives. 3 hours to talk to the parents? Garbage...three hours to come up with useless reason after useless reason why they think this little boy is a criminal in the book. They most likely used that time to threaten the parents with taking away their child unless they conformed and raise that little robot like a scum liberal.
Some one should shank these idiots with a #2 pencil.
It would be funny to see them ban pencils and pens in school.
In Calif, one can have a 3” knife.
At a Company, only a 2” knife.
In the Company kitchen, are 6” knives.
Duh?
Blame the lawyers. Schools do this so they won’t be held liable for guessing wrong.
Because the ex-hippie utopian-stupid baby boomer kids are now in charge(period).
There parents and practically ALL previous generations had common sense, the Boomers don’t. Look at who’s President!
Before you answer, consider all the uses for a knife.
You can use it for to cut a rope , or your steak. You can carve with it, wou can whittle with it or pick a sliver from your hand. It is a very versatile TOOL.
Only when it is turned against another living thing, is it a weapon. Unless this young man used it to harm or intimidate others, he had no weapon.
Try this on the LIBS and see what they say. Ask them to look it up in Webster's.
If you REALLY want to see heads explode, use the same argument for a firearm....
Back in the seventies I brought my fathers Samurai Sword to school to show my class and teachers. Most were in awe to see an authentic Samurai brought home from the jungles of Guadalcanal. If I did that today I would have been expelled and arrested. My how times have changed.
Beats me. Zero tolerance precludes ever making an honest mistake.
My son accidentally brought a knife to school after a hiking trip with the Scouts. It was left in his jacket. He quietly slipped it into his backpack.