Honestly, I remember having teachers who had large casings made into memorabilia, displayed on their desks. They used to be a fairly common chotski. Lots of kids had them on a necklace chain too....complete with a bullet.
I understand the world has changed though.
A co-worker used to have a few chotski casings in his cube, along with a live .45-70 round. I told him that HR would freak out on him one day, and he should remove it. Eventually he took my advice (right after Sandy Hook when people were going bonkers).
So I can see how, in our current world, the casing could cause a minor panic. But even though I have grown to expect that as a predictable response, I don’t agree that it is a correct response. It is just part of a growing wave of fanatical anti-gun hysteria, and I would caution against buying into it. If you take a step back, it really is just a hunk of metal. Unless the kid whips a reloading kit out of his pocket, he’s not going to do much with the casing, other than show it to the other kids.
Well said, but don’t forget that eventually cooler heads prevailed and the kid received a lighter sentence, once the situation was understood. But how the school staff is trained to respond to a stiuation like this, as it unfolds, is according to written school policy.
Policy is policy, it’s much stricter now than in the Davey Crockett era everybody claims to have grown up in, and they did the right thing in enforcing it.