Friggin’ ridiculous - in that part of PA, every boy probably has a pocket knife in their pocket at some point during the day. For him to be suspended because he turned it in is to turn common sense on it’s head.
Might be Western PA, but it’s also FOX CHAPEL - rich white enclave in Allegheny Co. Not many blue collar pocket-knife folks can afford to live there anymore.
Sounds like turning it in and playing by “the rules” is what got him the suspension. If he’d kept his mouth shut, this would have been a non-starter.
The liberals are winning the battle over our kiddies’ minds in the public schools, sadly.
Grew up in that neck of the woods. In my time, many grade school kids carried pocket knives to school. Used for whittling, mumbly peg or knife baseball. Never used as weapons.
Not just boys, girls as well. My daughter had one of those mini-Swiss Army knife type devices which went with her everywhere-- standard red, not pink.
She used it to do her nails (the build 'em that way in SW PA), open letters, clean teeth, you name it. When she went off to college, she had it to fly off for interviews here and there, visit family and visit friends. One December, after a family vacation, we dropped her off at Charlotte where the flight back to college was cheaper than from Pittsburgh.
She called that night to tell us she'd gotten in to Idaho safely and that some TSA nazi had finally confiscated her knife in Charlotte. I offered to buy her another. She told me that she already had. Some necessities you just can't live without.
PC idiots. They will be among the first to decorate lamp posts when the rest of us decide to go William Wallace on them.