Knives at School

[andrewnakhlahca]

Unfortunately here in CA knives are banned for k-12 and only 2.5" or smaller blades for college. But i've still brought my tenacious on a few occasions to college without incident.
I wish i could carry it there, though because i walk from home lol. I think as long as you dont draw attention to yourself or whip it out youll be fine but still better safe than sorry.

 

[killgar]

Unfortunately here in CA knives are banned for k-12 and only 2.5" or smaller blades for college. But i've still brought my tenacious on a few occasions to college without incident.
I wish i could carry it there, though because i walk from home lol. I think as long as you dont draw attention to yourself or whip it out youll be fine but still better safe than sorry.

There is no limit on the size of manual-opening folders that are legal to carry/posses on university property in California. Here is a link to California penal code 626.10, the statute that applies to knives on school property. Section (b) applies to university property. It clearly states that knives with fixed blades 2 1/2 inches long are illegal, but no mention of folding knives. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f...m=626.10.&highlight=true&keyword=knife+school

Of course college administrators are free to impose their own rules regarding knives on university property, but those rules are not laws, and they only apply to students and faculty.

 

[andrewnakhlahca]

There is no limit on the size of manual-opening folders that are legal to carry/posses on university property in California. Here is a link to California penal code 626.10, the statute that applies to knives on school property. Section (b) applies to university property. It clearly states that knives with fixed blades 2 1/2 inches long are illegal, but no mention of folding knives. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f...m=626.10.&highlight=true&keyword=knife+school

Of course college administrators are free to impose their own rules regarding knives on university property, but those rules are not laws, and they only apply to students and faculty.

I really hope so because that's awesome lol. But I've heard that some claim a locking folder counts as a fixed blade.

 

[boy&hisdogs]

I carried a knife through high school and now in college. I never got in trouble for it because I didn't go around showing it off, just used it when I needed it and put it back in the pocket. It also helps that I'm an engineering major. Even at work, which is an elementary school that technically only allows a 2.5" non-locker for staff EDC, but they do have a wobbler for other things that are reasonably related to your job. I coach our robotics team in the spring, and I'm generally known around campus as "Mr. Boyandhisdogs-the-science-guy" (cue the Bill Nye music) so if anyone gets a pass to carry a leatherman, it would be me.

I live in a very militantly liberal part of California too. The trick is that I'm a good kid who stays out of trouble and minds my own business, so I don't attract attention to myself in the first place. I bet I could get away with just about anything, but choose to follow the law on the honor system... well mostly. I'm also scared of that .0001% chance that I'll bump into one stickler of a cop and he'll really ruin my day.

As someone who works at an elementary school, let me tell you that most kids I know, even the 4th and 5th graders aren't mature enough for a knife. I know kids that age CAN be capable of responsible knife ownership, I got my first pocket knife at 8, but the environment these poor kids are being raised in is what's at fault here. Even if one kid is responsible enough to carry a knife, there's a decent chance that his buddies are not. Being a kid, he'll show it off too his buddies at some point, and all it takes is one knucklehead to snatch it and run around with it to ruin it for everyone either by getting hurt or getting caught.

People around here would rather wrap their kids in bubble wrap and stick their heads in the sand than try and teach them personal responsibility. So they're taught to be afraid of and avoid everything "dangerous" like knives, guns, tools, etc and never get taught how to handle such things safely. Well one day their curiosity is going to get the best of them. Not to mention the fact that by only seeing pain/death/injury in movies and video games, they don't take it seriously. They play and joke about killing people and treat knives/scissors/other sharp tools like toys because they just flat out don't understand the consequences and gravity of what they're doing. I know this sounds harsh but until you witness an untimely death (or better yet, cause it yourself) you don't truly grasp how real and permanent it is.

 

[ty_higg]

When I was in high school I always had a knife on me just because of the sole reason I spent huge amounts of my day in the shop welding and woodworking. The Ag teachers didn't care and most of the other faculty didn't either as long as you kept it out of sight from the school police and they knew you were a good kid that stayed out of trouble. I also grew up in a rural area so it was seen very differently than a more suburban school. In college they had the same rules/followed the same laws that the state of Texas has so their was no problem there. Nowadays though I wouldn't recommend it, and would follow school rules and for college the laws of the state.