Teens cant have Knives?

When I went to High School in rural East Tennessee, (grad. 1971) it wasn't uncommon for us to take rifles and shotguns to school on the bus so we could go hunting after school. You could leave your gun in the principal's office, or just take the bolt out and leave it. I've carried a pocket knife almost everyday since I was about 10, and only got in trouble last year at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. The guard confiscated my Old Timer, but for some reason gave it back to my wife.
 
Normark said:
Hey Guys..

Believe it or not...

I use to bring my shotgun on the bus(We'd go duck hunting after school), and kept it in my locker until I got caught..
Then I had to drop it off at the office after getting off the bus..

I Absolutely Shit you Not!

This was late 70's..

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I'm from Pennsylvania and I got out of high school in 1982. Carried a knife on me every day during high school just as most guys did and it was accepted. My school also had a rifle team so it was not uncommon to see dudes come into the school with their rifles. Also these were the days where almost all pickup trucks had gun racks in them and there was always a rifle or shotgun in sight. My high school was very cool. We had an open campus so if you wanted to leave during the day you could. Also, we had indoor smoking lounges for the students. Damn, I'm glad I graduated school before all this current pussy bullshit started. **School Rant Mode OFF** I realize times have changed but it seems so unfortunate for the young knife nuts not being able to carry as freely.
 
I always carried a knife to school (grad 2000) but I never took it out, just had it for after school and I don't think anyone knew I had it on me. My brother on the other hand used to carry a switchblade to school and once got expelled for playing with it in the hallways. I used to work at a grain elevator after school and a one day a farmer was trying to open a bag of seed, he didn't have a knife so I whipped out my Spyderco Police and handed it to him. He said, "So you just pull this thing out when you get into trouble at school?" It pissed me off, the comment was mainly because he had heard about my brother (such as it is in small towns) I use my knives as tools, nothing more, and it made me feel like an idiot even though it wasn't true.
 
Wow, im bringing up an old thread, but i like this one and can deffently relate.
Right now im a freshman in college, 18 years old, and have had a knife on me almost daily for more than 10 years. Even in elementary school, since 1st grade ive had some sort of knife on me daily. I doubt anyone but my friends knew i carried one untill 4th grade when my teacher used to barrow it every now and then. Nothing really happened with in in middle school, usually just a SAK on my house key.
In high school i had plenty of incidents where people reported me for having one, luckily i never got one taken away or got in trouble for it, i dont know how that happened with what happened to other people.
I would always have my SAK on my keychain, and then another type of folder, and a couple more in my car once i was old enough to drive. In my shop, auto, and drafting classes i would use the folder almost daily(i was one of the only to have on, but everyone liked them). I must have had the good shop teacher because the other one we had reported a student for having a folder fall out of his pocket during class. The kid was suspended for a month:jerkit: , but the next day almost everyone in the school wore a shirt that said "SAVE*****" and the kid was back the next week, and all legal charges were dropped. I had plenty of run ins but never got in trouble.
One day we had a locker search with dogs smelling for drugs. I was called into the deans office and my cheap 3 in winchester folder was on his desk:eek: . i told him i was using that morning to finish up a project before school and dropped it in my pocket and realized it was still there when i got to school so left it in my locker (good thing he didnt see my spydie cliped to my waistband or my keychain:D ) He told me i could pick it after school so i guess i got lucky there. But when i got back to my locker i realized my lunch was gone :mad: damn LEO's.
Ran into a few other problems, but i feel this post is long enough.

Carl
 
Had the same sort of probelms in high school. I graduated in 1999, in a city of about 200,000 in Texas. My aunt got me a little SAK from a trip to Europe, and I put it on the key chain. The only time I ever had a knife at school was in summer school, and this school district cop told us to empty our pockets and leave the room. I did as I was told. I got railed a little bit, and he told me "It's not illegal, but you can't have it at school."

I had it one day after school during marching band practice, when the band director needed scissors. I had the pocket knife in my picket after school and I let him borrow it. AS he was using it, he pointed out I wasn't supposed to have it at school. He thought it was a dumbass rule, too, but he was obligated to point it out.

Now, I carry a 4-inch liner lock COld Steel pro hunter. Good knife, but I get a lot of smartasses who think it's this massive machete. Most of america works in offices, and they think trees grow in planks, cows grow butchered and corn grows kernel by kernel in freezers. Never occurrs to them that you have to cut stuff every once in a while.
 
I'm sure Pony boy from the outsiders can relate to you as well, only he used his switch instead of a leatherman, and it was some soc girl next to him that had the problem.
Conform, you greaser!
 
I was given my first knife when I was 5 years old and have carried knives pretty much all my life,and feel naked with out one.:eek:

It's funny how people think your crazy for carring a blade util they need something cut, and sad how many people seem to think of knives as only weapons when to me they are essential tools.

Last year a kid my brother knew got in trouble when he accidently carried his pocket knife to school,and realizing it turned it in to his teacher.Even though he handed the knife over he got expelled and a court date:mad: And thats in the south!
 
I've always carried a knife (SAK) including at school when I was young, nor was it considered unusual. This was in the '80's.

Now I'm a high school teacher, and I keep a Leatherman Wave in my bag. Frequently it comes out to fix/adjust/mend stuff arounf the classroom.
 
haha i just rememberd the story about my friend whiping out a butter fly knife last year at his school to get the coffee pot to fit in correctly for his teacher. i still dont know how he didnt get in trouble
-matt
 
I carried a knife all through Highschool (also in Canada) I never got in trouble for it, though only one teacher ever noticed.

Then again I did get suspended for playing with an orange NERF gun at school with some friends.....calling the vice principal an Idiot probly didn't help.

His explanation for getting me in trouble was: If a SWAT team was in the school and they came around the corner and saw me standing there with a NERF gun I may be shot...I shit you not..how could I not call him an Idiot?
 
It pisses me off how it's illegal for me to carry knife at school. DUring marching band (I play Tuba) we had a couple of susaphones that needed a screw to be tightened with a plier each time you wanted to play so I brought my leatherman juice, one time the assistant band director asked me if he could borrow it, so I let him no problems there. More recently doing band extra credit, I needed to remove some screws and he says go grab a screwdriver out of the band office (we are in the gym) but I say I have one, he says a strong one, I say sure. So I use my leatherman Surge and pop out the screws. I have never used my knife (CRKT M-16 god willing might buy a BM 710) but I have a couple of times after school or on the weekends at school doing band stuff, never had a single problem. It sucks when tools turn into weapons.

I just need to make sure that I can't get sited by the police for carrying a BM 156CSK fixed around over summer. (I have yet to figure out a decent urban use for something soo large, but it will come to me). 16 year old out.
 
I guess that means the vic classic on my key chain is a concealed weapon intended for covert de-animation :jerkit: :rolleyes: right ?

I feel naked without a knife too, but I have it worse. I always need to have something concealed and tactical :eek: just for covert deanimation :D
 
seth2915 said:
Most of america works in offices, and they think trees grow in planks, cows grow butchered and corn grows kernel by kernel in freezers. Never occurrs to them that you have to cut stuff every once in a while.
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I was in the local convenience store one day and saw a new item on display -- a plastic clampack with an apple all sliced up in it.
 
Hey Guys...

Esav...

Esav Benyamin said:
I was in the local convenience store one day and saw a new item on display -- a plastic clampack with an apple all sliced up in it.
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Yaa for $3.99

And it was probably that ultra tough plastic heat sealed all the way around,, so you need a knife to get into it.. LOL

:)

ttyle

Eric
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Esav Benyamin said:
I was in the local convenience store one day and saw a new item on display -- a plastic clampack with an apple all sliced up in it.
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I am embarrassed to belong to the same species as whoever designed that thing. Sounds like baby food for adults:barf:.
 
My dad graduated in '78, I in '03...

He said in our neck of the woods, fighting was getting bad. Kids carried nunchucks and baseball bats and switchblades. They would give kids hell about that.

Anyhow, I often carried a pocket knife to school but was always afraid. I shouldn't have been but I never got in trouble as a kid.

For some reason, a knife in the pocket made me more nervous then having my hunting bow and broadheads in the backseat of my pick up. I never thought any of that. I kept my bow in there for months cause either I was hunting or in the off season I was shooting it at the range after school.

They probably wouldv'e been ticked to have found out about that.
 
i was suspended from school cause i had a tiny tiny 2 inch slipjoint that was about as about as sharp as a plastic spoon it was some novelty pos that someone gave me and i used it to pick clay out of my nails after studio art until my teacher saw it. my principals exact words "what were you planning to do with this" the thin was 2 inches overall. Im glad im done with HS.
 
The psycho kids at my high school in the UK stabbed other kids with pencils and compass points... so there's probably some justification in not allowing them knives. On the other hand, the older common-sense teachers carried little slipjoints for sharpening pencils without a 2nd thought (i'm thinking, weren't pencil sharpeners invented in their day? :o) Good excuse tho). In my small international high school in Africa before that, we all carried at least saks; remember one day a couple guys were throwing their cheap flick knives into trees etc before class, and the teacher was this new lady straight from an american public school and her eyes went wide as... well funny.
 
The school I go to has a zero tolerance policy technically, but being the industrial tech department head's main aid I find a LOT of stuff I need a knife for, and sometimes not a little sissy knife, so I carry a 4" solid lockback folder with me at all times, as long as I keep it next to my inhaler in my pocket no one even notices it. The really funny thing is I pulled it out the other day around some other students while working on a project and about 6 of them all whipped out their knives to compare them. I've also run into the "can I borrow your knife" question followed immediatly afterwards by the "why do you carry a weapon???"
 
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