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Those were MODIFIED. This was reported as just an ordinary flat bladed screw driver.

Look, almost anything can be described as a burglary tool. You can pick locks with bobby pins. You can even listen to tumblers in an old fashioned combination lock using a RED SOLO CUP ~ (might talk to Toby Keith regarding other uses ~ he knows).

A lot of this is like the nutso stuff MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) did when they got the cops to count as 'alcohol related' every accident where there was so much as an empty beer can in a trunk.

Public school officials aren't much behind that with their zero tolerance policies.

You do nothing whatsoever to maintain public support for "stand your ground" laws and the Second Amendment by allowing public officials to describe screw drivers as burglary tools, aspirins as imitation narcotics, or cupcakes as "prohibited contraband". In fact, all that happens is you end up encouraging the extension of the Fascist state into more and more private territory.

Those were MODIFIED. This was reported as just an ordinary flat bladed screw driver.

And that would be reported by the same lamestream media that ignored the eyewitness, the suspensions, and everything else.

I am a certified Martial arts instructor that used to teach the police cadets and various agencies over the years. screwdrivers modified or unmodified can be used as burglary tools or weapons. stop being naive. The Media has it's agenda and will not publish anything that varies from that.

It's the context not the item which gives it away as a burglary tool. It's a reasonable assumption to call a screwdriver a burglary tool when it is found in the same container as diamond rings, assorted jewelry and a watch that do not belong to the "owner" of the container, most particularly when the owner of said container has no reasonable explanation for having such expensive and non-teenage items on school grounds other than to claim a friend whom he will not name "gave" him diamond rings and such.

Not to mention there isn't much reason for someone attending classes to need a LARGE flathead screwdriver in a backpack containing someone else's jewelry when most of what has screws in it around school are calculators with tiny Phillips head screws.

You'd make a better case if it was his jewelry and it was a jeweler's screwdriver, at least that would be reasonable. Even if it were his jewelry and any kind of screwdriver. It all comes down to his possession of property that was not his.