California Brings a New Level of Ridiculousness!!! Swiss Army Knife Suspension

Bah... :thumbdn:

I never got in trouble for bringing Moras, 110s, etc, to grade school. But that's probably because I was never caught :D
 
Home schooling. Obviously the lack of money to be made in public school administration has eroded the quality of the people working there.
 
Times have changed. I carried a red Victorinox Spartan to school every day in the 1970's and nobody ever had a problem with it. I used it openly when needed and people came to me if they needed something cut or unscrewed, etc.
 
The school official who did this for sure does not have enough work to do if she has time to torment and ridicule a young kid for having a swiss army knife.

When I was a kid every boy had some kind of a pocket knife on him usually a boy scout knife or some such maybe a "camp king"

And getting the ok to have a pocket knife from your dad and/or being given one by him was a kind of a rite of passage for boys. Along with getting your first BB gun and then .22.

The leftists in our country are really fracked in the head. Must be hard to be a kid today.

Ca. is one of the worst places for such B.S. Its a pity for our country.
 
Living in a new era of civil disarmament. They think possessing a knife automatically means you're going to stab someone, just as if you are a gun owner, you're going to shoot somebody. It's quite sad, really...
 
Damn. I grew up in that area and knew kids who went to that school. Pity that it seems to be run by people who are scared by their own shadows now
 
First, this is not California law, it's school policy. California law actually allows small swiss army knives in school. Whereas in my state of Maryland, all knives are banned period by both law and policy. This news story is not shocking in the least as this has been the policy in most schools since the 80s.
 
Oh yeah I read through all the related stories at the bottom and I am just shocked at the level of ridiculousness described.
 
"“Our schools also have prevention and intervention programs to help students make decisions, solve problems, and deal with conflict,” the policy also adds."

Cool. Now make the staff go through those programs, so they will be better trained to make decisions, solve problems, and deal with conflict. Obviously have no clue now. They actually created a conflict.There is a possibility, however, that this is for the best. The kid may see what morons people can be and learn to Question Authority.
 
This makes me sad how we devolve to incompetent people. Common sense isn't so common.
 
Meh. This seems like a minor, if stupid, incident. There are, and always have been, plenty of administrators who cheerfully defer to policy rather than risk thinking.
 
Bai Lang said:
The school official who did this for sure does not have enough work to do if she has time to torment and ridicule a young kid for having a swiss army knife.

When I was a kid every boy had some kind of a pocket knife on him usually a boy scout knife or some such maybe a "camp king"

And getting the ok to have a pocket knife from your dad and/or being given one by him was a kind of a rite of passage for boys. Along with getting your first BB gun and then .22.

The leftists in our country are really fracked in the head. Must be hard to be a kid today.

Ca. is one of the worst places for such B.S. Its a pity for our country.
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Try avoiding asinine generalizations and maybe keep your politics in political arena.
 
This is nothing new. I lived in LA for most of my life and 15 years ago when I was I high school my friends older brother got kicked out of school for having a keychain swiss army knife. This is before the madness of today. I understand that we on this forum see things from a more common sense point of view but this kid should not have brought the knife but the reaction of the school is over the top.
 
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