Hey guys, here's some insight. I work as a Safe School Liason (campus security) for an inner city high school. Last week I dealt with an incident where a grade 8 kid pulled a hunting knife on another grade 8. That grade 8 turned around and pulled a can of mace and ended up spraying both the kid with the knife and himself. Later that weekend the same kid was stopped by police or carrying a black spray-painted BBgun around town. Neighbors called cops and the kid was taken down at gunpoint. I spoke with an officer later and was told that the kid nearly got shot because he froze up and didn't drop the bb gun when told to.
Sheeple reactions? Tell me, when you guys went to school did you live in a post-columbine world? Probably not, so you didn't think anything of carrying a pocket knife and a bb gun to school. In the 3 years I've worked this school I have confiscated 5 knives ranging from slip joint folders to blacked out Rambo knives, 3 cans of mace, a pellet gun (used in a robbery) and countless baggies of marijuana, ecstasy, oxycontins etc. it's a sad state of affairs when we have to worry about that kind of stuff, but the fact is it exists. 10 minute delay getting to school to deal with a possible weapon? Yeah that sounds reasonable to me, completely so. Schools ave rules against knives and weapons for a reason, I can't begin to tell you the horror stories I've heard about kids pulling weapons that they never intended to be weapons (ie pocket knives, SAKs etc) and getting messed up badly because of it. This isn't a sheeple reaction, it's proper school safety procedures. No different than the TSA asking you to leave your water bottle on te ground before getting on a plane. Sounds silly right? But there's a legit reason things are handled that way in a post-911 or post Columbine, Virginia Tech, Ecole Polytechnique etc world.
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