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Suggestion? Don't. Just don't. It is a felony to bring a knife on a school campus in lots of places, and that applies to teachers too. I was a teacher for almost 8 years, and the biggest thing I brought was the dinky little SAK with a 1 inch blade because it would have been my career to have more if someone wanted to make a stink. No knife is going to level the playing field for an active shooter, period, that's why the active shooter protocol is 1)flee 2)shelter in place 3)fight back. You would be better served by an effective door wedge that would keep someone from opening your door even with a key. If you want a "weapon," keep a hammer in small tool kit in your classroom, along with a good size screwdriver. If you want something you can carry, go visible, not hidden. A Vietnam vet I had for English class when I was a lad was always leaning on a yardstick in class; it was his prop. He pointed to stuff, leaned on it a lot, and heaven help you if you snoozed in class, the flat side of that thing on a desk was like a Gabriel's horn calling for battle. Years later, I realized that his fidget toy would have made a great weapon, one quick movement and two stabby bits. His hardware store ruler broke in class one day, and some of his students made him a really beefy one and they all signed it--he had it years later. Storytelling aside, in all seriousness, keep your blades at home.
 
Most of the schools I have attended as an adult have a zero-tolerance policy on weapons. They also consider any knife a weapon. Of course, they have never admitted that they look the other way during cooking classes, shop classes, and for maintenance workers and LEOs. The damage someone could do with a seven-inch chefs knife!
 
Lol yeah do not bring a knife on campus, unless its college. If you want to carry something, carry a multitool that has a small blade.
 
I don't think a knife for such a defensive role would be a good idea, and ever rarely is when you have to protect more than just yourself.
My suggestion would be that if you really need a knife to cut stuff with then get a small Victorinox such as the minichamp.
Nobody will know it's in your pocket, when it's out of your pocket it'll disappear in your hand, and it's got other useful things such as scissors tweezers toothpick nail file citrus peeler tool...ect. with the tools it's got you probably won't even use the blade itself most of the time and with most of the thing covered by your hand during use it's likely it'll never be seen or noticed at all.

I know many schools have a zero tolerance policy about knives but I was a school student in this century , in California no less and had teachers who carried a traditional pocket knife or multitool everyday without issue. NorCal is the better half of the state that's more knife friendly, but this still says something.
It suck, but that's how it is and I think the teachers I had or knew were just lucky.
 
IMO. Kerambit is pretty much the worst possible choice, very hard to explain it as a tool vs: weapon and not very useful for non-combat tasks, and for that matter not really useful in a shooting situation. I would go with a SAK or multitool unless your school had a zero tolerance policy.

The SAK is really under appreciated IMO, it’s very useful and even most knife-phobes are OK with them, especially in red.
 
If a shooter was present what good would a knife do you?

Teacher is a profession that pretty much forgoes carrying a knife.
 
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You are better off getting a trauma first aid course, and getting some good stress inoculation training. In an active shooter situation, your kids will need you to have your head screwed on straight. You will do more helping those hurt, and if "push comes to shove" some good open-hand comparatives will do you much better than a knife. The fact is, you are still just avoiding a lighting strike, and a lot of what that means now is that its more about the aftermath.
 
A gun beats a knife, and unless you Assassin's Creed out of the ceiling onto the shooter, he definitely has control of the situation. A knife for self defense as a teacher is, at best, highly inadvised, especially if a parent caught wind of you having a large knife.

That said, a small SAK is a perfectly functional blade, and is synonymous with utility not weapon, so very few places, even where knives aren't allowed, make any kind of a fuss over a small one. There were situations when I was in school that would have called for a pocket knife, but mine had a strictly enforced no knives ever policy, so we had to very dangerously use scissors.
 
Just remember the scene where the swordsman confronts Indiana Jones.

And yeah, a swiss army knife of some sort would serve you well.
 
Wow, how times have changed! I carried a Queen barlow to school since I was 7 years old (65 years ago); then carried a Buck folding hunter on my belt and a SAK Tinker in my pocket as a college teacher for over 30 years. Still carry my Tinker, but replaced the Buck with a Kershaw AO a couple years ago. Now I would be expelled as a student or fired as a teacher for doing so. Really dislike this sheeple culture of fear :-(

Rich
 
As others said, I would forget the knife.

I would look into your state laws about pepper spray and your ability to carry (or not) on school property.
 
I am in some doubt as to the seriousness of this thread; whatever the OP teaches, it is not law, and certainly not common sense. But in the rare event that the post is genuine, I most definitely recommend one of these, which also works for top ranking mall security operatives:



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