Curious: Is anyone else allowed to carry a knife at school.

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Aaron_Jones

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I know there aren't many students on here but I was wondering if anyone else is allowed to carry a knife at school. I go to school in East Texas and were allowed to have them if the blade is smaller than your handbreadth. Just curious as to how common this is across the US... Thanks!
 
Aaron_Jones said:
I know there aren't many students on here but I was wondering if anyone else is allowed to carry a knife at school. I go to school in East Texas and were allowed to have them if the blade is smaller than your handbreadth. Just curious as to how common this is across the US... Thanks!
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Before college, no. During college, yes.

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Aaron_Jones said:
I know there aren't many students on here but I was wondering if anyone else is allowed to carry a knife at school. I go to school in East Texas and were allowed to have them if the blade is smaller than your handbreadth. Just curious as to how common this is across the US... Thanks!
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Who's handbreadth? The person carrying or the police officer that may inquire?
 
I'm in high school and I can tell you I'm certainly not allowed to carry anything that could be considered a weapon. Doesn't mean I don't but that the official policy.
 
I live in Eastern Kansas, and I carry on both my highschool and college campuses, and have used my blades to help multiple teachers with tasks, never have been questioned about it. I often use my Mini Griptillian at lunch, and noone says a word to me. Been like this for junior and senior year lol

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apg said:
I'm in high school and I can tell you I'm certainly not allowed to carry anything that could be considered a weapon. Doesn't mean I don't but that the official policy.
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Be careful. It'd be foolish to think that something that may be trivial to you, wont come to bite you in the rear and have repercussions throughout the rest of your life.
 
Aaron_Jones said:
I know there aren't many students on here but I was wondering if anyone else is allowed to carry a knife at school. I go to school in East Texas and were allowed to have them if the blade is smaller than your handbreadth. Just curious as to how common this is across the US... Thanks!
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Sucks if you have Donald Trump hands, I guess.

Beats not being able to carry a knife at all, but that's a really stupid rule.
 
I was friends with a dude during my second year of college that was a Veteran and he had a decent sized tanto folder. I don't remember what it was but that was my first experience with an edc outside of my fathers little slipjoint that he's had since before I was born
 
I'm back in school in CHICAGO and, as long as it complies with the law here, I've had no issue carrying and using a knife.
 
I'm in West Texas and it was against the rules when I went, though it wasn't enforced. The administration, I played golf with our assistant principal, referred to it as an add-on crime. If you were a troublemaker who got into fights, bullied, smoked pot in the hallway, etc. They'd tack on the knife possession to the charges. Otherwise no one cared. I always had a knife with me.
 
I was curious so pulled up the local High School handbook just to see. It states, "Any knife of any blade length is prohibited." I'm glad my school days are long over. Only time I remember it being an issue in the 80's was if someone was showing their knife off or doing something really stupid.
 
T.L.E. Sharp said:
I'm in West Texas and it was against the rules when I went, though it wasn't enforced. The administration, I played golf with our assistant principal, referred to it as an add-on crime. If you were a troublemaker who got into fights, bullied, smoked pot in the hallway, etc. They'd tack on the knife possession to the charges. Otherwise no one cared. I always had a knife with me.
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This is exactly how it was for me in highschool in Central TX. Definitely not "allowed" but if you were not a trouble maker you were never bothered for it. I remember a particular class mate in Astronomy who would flick his knife nonchalantly during the many videos we watched, it was a pretty small knife though.
 
I go to high school in north Georgia.... if I got caught with a knife any knife I would probably be expelled... this does not mean I don't carry one it's just that I can't get caught ;)

This was the same when I was in middle school

Trust me there are plenty good hiding spots in my backpack ;)

i do bring a baliyo pen and a uzi pen in my pocket and have been questioned because they thought it was a knife. Baliyo pens are great for getting rid of that ohh crap where's my knife feeling lol I'd highly recommend both the uzi and Baliyo pen if your interested
 
I have two on me at all times but I'm in maritime college and pretty much everyone, including instructors, carry a knife.
 
Aaron_Jones said:
I go to school in East Texas and were allowed to have them if the blade is smaller than your handbreadth.
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Past experience with threads says this is not the way laws and rules are written. They are usually more specific as to blade length. As mentioned hand size varies.
 
When I was in high school and under, knives weren't permitted for students, but a 6th grade English teacher of mine was well known for carrying a Buck 110 and if you needed a pencil sharpened in his class you gave it to him and he'd whittle a point on it. :D In college there was a strict no-weapons policy, but it didn't outright ban knives and so I carried routinely. While doing work for the facilities management office there, as a workstudy job, I was permitted to use my own machetes for some of the field work I did on campus clearing vegetation around stormwater outfalls so I could do inspections.
 
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