Never went without at least one knife, and sometimes two.
You, on the other hand, are beginning to sound like those school authorities who think teachers are too stupid and ignorant to differentiate between aspirin and unlawful controlled drugs.
If screwdrivers are now burglary tools, what do you imagine a 2.5 pound steel hammer is?
I worked 25 years in uniform, behind the bars of NY State prisons, so I know what can be used as a weapon. Screwdrivers were considered contraband.
The kid was found in possession of the screwdriver and multiple pieces of jewelry, mostly rings and earrings while on school property. He told the security guard that an unnamed friend had given the jewelry to him. My argument was that nobody bothered to confiscate the screwdriver or the jewelry, and turn it over to the cops to see if any of the rings, etc., had been reported stolen in a burglary. Instead they discipline him for graffiti on a locker. Carrying a screwdriver and a bunch of jewelry he couldn't prove was his, was okay, but they busted him for writing on a locker.
The last resort when the screwdriver won't jimmy the locker.......
actrually if you rmember the Bernhard Goetz case the African american youths he shot had sharpened screwdrives that they used to break into vending machines.