Have We Gone Mad!

It's difficult enough to pull kid's away from the Playstation Nation to join the Good Ole Scouts!

Now they have to scare the living hell out of those wanting to join, or they may wind up in Delaware Juvenille Detention (which I am certain is no "cake walk" for a 7 year old)!

You guys know I don't post much after 9 years here, but this one got me!
 
I seriously feel like emailing the school. I was in scouts until late high school, and the standard issue pocket knife with the spoon & fork was my first knife! Its a shame to see the little guy get in trouble for something so innocent.
 
Most people have lost all common sense. Plain and simple.

Somebody should go in there with a MOAB and show them something really scary then maybe a spork won't seem so bad.
 
I had the misfortune of experiencing the beginnings of this transition as I went through school. When I was in cub scouts, I carried my swiss army knife in my pocket in school - I knew it was technically against the rules, but my teachers also knew I was in scouts, and as long as I wasn't waving it around at the other kids, they didn't say anything about it.

I still had no problems carrying the swiss army knife when I made it to seventh grade and was taking shop class, but again the understanding was that it was to be kept in my pocket whenever I was outside of shop class. I followed that rule, and had no problems.

By tenth grade, when I was taking more advanced shop classes, electronics and so forth, the swiss army knife was sitting in a drawer at home. The school instituted first a "three strikes" weapons program, and by graduation they had a "zero tolerance" policy.



This is a school that, to this day, has a strict rule in place that teachers cannot schedule tests during the first week of deer camp, because somewhere between a third and half of the male students will be missing. Yet they still gave in to this goofy paranoia.
 
I think people with strong sound minds whom deal with their own problems by themselves have just minded their own buisness and let the WHINNER'S and wimps who want everyone to live their live's like they do constantly complain and get these stupid laws made.
And HEEL YESS IT MAKES ME MAD AS HELL .
 
Although, I should mention that I DID manage to bring in a gigantic Bastard Sword to school my senior year. I had taken a trip to Spain with my Spanish class, and one of the things we did was visit one of the big manufacturers of fantasy swords over there. We did a "show and tell" type thing after we got back from the trip, where people would bring in souvenirs and practice talking about them in Spanish. The sword wasn't sharpened, and I had to leave it with the teacher in the morning before classes started, but if I tried that today I'd probably be put on an FBI watch list as a potential terrorist :rolleyes:
 
I wish laws regarding weapons focusd more on intent and less on hardware. A knife to me is a tool until it is used otherwise. A person hell-bent on inflicting injury can make do with a ballpoint pen, a stool, or a bottle. Are we going to start banning car keys in schools? Cant they be used to cause harm? Bottom line: banning items and making laws excessive will do NOTHING to stop violece. The violence just gets more creative. Look at the prisons. Cmon, a kid with a little camp untensil getting expelled? Really?
 
I freaked out the principal of my kids' school yesterday with a reasonably sized Moore Maker pocket knife. 4.5" (closed) lockback. Told the story of how I spooked the Admin by flipping out one of my Benchmade's one day to help open a can of snow-melt. I think I'll be getting a talk-to at some point. . . for no reason at all. (I'm a 40 year old parent, not an 8 yr old delinquent. Sheesh!)
 
I'm young (27) but attended a small Christian based school (graduating class was 22). In the 8th grade we had to do a report on the old west and I did a report on the gunfighters. I was allowed (with my father's supervision) to bring in guns used in that era to show as examples. We had school retreats all year round and it wasn't a big deal to have a knife. Guess times have changed, even in that short period.
 
though you have to admit the picture of that kid is really intimidating... I mean the damage he must be able to do with a spork is probably unimaginable.... with that in mind maybe we should just eliminate utensils from schools all together. kids like to eat with thier hands anyway.
 
Don't let your kid accidentally wear his favorite "hunting with dad" jacket to school. It just might be the BIGGEST little mistake he or she ever makes if their Busse HACK or Scout Knife is in it!

We've lost our minds!
 
How things have changed. When I was in HS we used to hunt early in the morning and then go to school, I'd strip off my hunting coveralls in the parking lot and have a 30-30 in the rear window gun rack in my pickup all day, today they'd have a SWAT team fast roping in to arrest me. For my shop project my junior year I made a crossbow, and shot a pencil thru a piece of plywood to show it worked in front of the class, bet that wouldnt go over well these days either.
 
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