The next day, just after he was dropped off at school by a classmate's mother, he said he discovered the knife in his coat and immediately went to the office.
Nevertheless, Meadows suspended him and recommended expulsion
Fourteen is not to early to learn the Warden is not on your side.
"Zero tolerance" has come to mean "zero brains for administrators" (sometimes not that much of a step down, come to think of it...). Was it not Solzenitsyn that lamented that the West had gone from a society of Law to a society of [mere] Rules?