Earlier article stated that he showed a pocket knife. If true, then this article is carefully leaving out that detail. Zero tolerance after all is what they wanted.
Indeed, it was the knife that got him suspended. However, in his defense the claim is that the prohibition applies to students (no scissors in the class room or knives in the student lunchroom available to servers?). PC runamuck - I suspect most inner city kids have them available even if they don’t carry them to school.
As always, the journalism majors and the headline writers are ignoring the facts of the story in an effort to gain ratings.