There is no question on this one. Common sense say you don't bring a knife to school. What idiot would bring a knife to school. I'm floored at the reactions on here.
Did you see the knife?
Have you figured out the context as to why the student brought the type of knife she did, and the intent or purpose it was going to be used for?
Have you ever about the damage adults do to kids when they hyper-overreact to situations that are innocent and not at all wrong? Equating this to be exactly the same as someone who takes a hunting knife to school to deliberately attack someone? That’s what zero tolerance stopthink BS does.
Most people here don’t fall for it. Common sense would have had the teacher after the demonstration say, “Honey, we have an idiot policy here that would get you into trouble for having the knife here, just don’t bring one in again”. And be done with it.
I think you should change your screen name. I work in education and common sense needs to regain control. I have taken pocket knives from students who forgot and came straight to me first off. Did I suspend them? No, because I am not an idiot. Thank you. Oh, and Merry Christmas too. :)
Common sense says I had a knife at school every day starting in about fourth grade. Nobody cared, most of the time. Sometimes, one of the teachers would need something opened, cut, sliced, whatever ... They knew where to get a knife.
That was back when America was a free country, and freedom was considered common sense.
You, sir, are part of the problem. I proposed the solution previously on this thread.
I’m floored by your handle.
I thought you were being sarcastic until I scrolled down more and saw that you weren’t. I don’t have words.
There is no question on this one. Common sense say you don’t bring a knife to school. What idiot would bring a knife to school. I’m floored at the reactions on here.
Back in the 60’s as a Cub Scout and Boy Scout, we wore our uniforms to school on weekly meeting days because we went directly to the meetings right after school.
My uniform had a sheath knife, a pocket knife hanging from a clip, and a hatchet with a covered head on my belt. This was the standard uniform.
Probably half the vehicles in the parking lot had shotguns or rifles in them because we went hunting after school.
And probably 99% of the boys carried pocket knives every day.
But nobody ever got shot or stabbed.
I know this was pretty much the same in the 70’s and 80’s.
So when did this all change?