What should I do if I had a knife at school?

My first question any time a teenager asks me a question like this is, "Is there a reason you're asking me[in this case the forum] rather than your parents?"

Even the best advice you get here might overlook something simple and extremely helpful that only your folks would think of because they know you best. I do understand that it's not always an option, but I also know that it's sometimes an overlooked option.

One other tip: if your knife is valuable to you, consider whether an inexpensive proximity alarm would be a good investment. Something that will beep when you leave the house/car/shop etc to remind to to put your knife away.
 
Have a stamped padded envelope addressed to your Uncle, not you, in your locker. Put it in the envelope with a note to your uncle asking him to give it back when he thinks you have brains enough not to break the rules. Head for the nearest mailbox.
 
Just take it out of your boxers and hide it deep inside your back pack so that no one will even suspect you of having anything. And while it is in that safe spot, you will probably forget about it so that you dont talk to anyone else about havimng a knife at school with you
 
LOL, well honestly man... its just not a good idea to bring a knife to school... i remember 1 day... i was sitting in American History class... then this guy next to me moved his bag, and i saw the teachers eyes like... pop outa her head... i said hmm? then i looked to the guy/ then the floor as he was trying to kick and try to grab the knife to coneanl it frantically!... It was somewhat comical!.. it was one of those kitchen knives/ steak knives...

The next thing the whole classroom erupts and kids started shouting stupid stuff... things like "oh we are all gana die, hes got a knife!" ect..ect... by the time we stepped outa the classroom half of the school knew.. the kid was in the office... and never saw him again... checked up on him through a freind of mine.. turned out they expelled him... although if i rememer correctly it was a friday before a week's long vacation... when we returned i saw him in the office.. i asked "oh ur not kicked out".. he said "they were discussing it over the break" or something to that effect....
i also remember his grades and behavier all-round not be-ing too good so im guessing that worked not soo well in his favor...

bottom-line is... if you have a GREAT track record... no fights, teachers/administraightion like and know who you are.... GOOD grades... no trouble with any teachers... if something like ur knife dropping out of ur bag or pants happened, they might have mercy on you...

AND ONE MORE THING.. if they ask you why u have it DONT SAY SELF DEFENSE! for petes sake....

The guy know i was telling you about with the steak-knife dropping outa his bag.. well rite there on the spot i asked him "WTF, do you have that type of a knife on you for".. and he simply said... "I live in a bad neighborhood"... ROFL the teacher took the knife in a second flat .. funny thing is she kept teaching and at the end of the period she took him to the office -.- guess it was cuz she liked the kid + she was new...

no matter who asks you, "why you have a knife on you", random person, LEO, or teacher.. worst thing to say is self-defense... if you have a job before/ or after school.. or if ur lunch was like .. i dono a steak..? well then give a better excuse..just make something up..like u were doing house-repairs with ur father the night before.. and well u forgot it in ur pants before u threw them on and ran out the house...
 
Ok this happened to me once or twice in highschool as well. Just go to the bathroom and put it at the bottom of your bag under all your books where its really inaccessible. If they do bag searches at your school (some schools do) just approach someone before they even search and tell them what happened.. but don't just keep the knife there longer than when you get home. and dont make a habit of "forgetting"

just dont say you have it for self defense. I left mine in my pants sometimes cause i used it while working at a motorcycle shop unpacking boxes/etc. so i had a reason to forget it on occation
 
depends, is it a public or private school?

public, call your parents as said before to "come bring you something" and give it to them then

private, well, a lot of times they can be a bit more lenient, i know i have seen some laws that allow private schools to let up to 3 inch blades if the school so decides
it is easily possible that a private school will just ignore it if you keep it in a back pack and dont say anything, or if you have a security guard at the school just bring it to him and tell you always carry it and picked it up out of force of habit, but ask him about doing that when you dont have it with you, that way if he says you wont get it back, put it in your backpack instead

i went to a private school, and i cant tell you how many times i have walked into the school with my knife in my pocket (i carry a crkt m16 with pocket clip on my pocket)
it was just ignored, though i wouldnt bet on that happening anywhere else, i knew every person on faculty personally as well as all the students (25ish students in the third year of the school)
 
yea... not a good idea. Long story short, it isn't safe in your backpack. Some girl got her phone stolen and admins were going through everyone stuff, including backpacks. I was the first to be checked. He asked me, "anything here that might surprise me?", I said nothing and he found my folder. BAM suspended for 5 days.
 
That used to happen to me. I just tossed it at the bottom of my backpack. I personally wouldn't go to the principal because there's the big chance that he/she would freak the hell out and kick you out of school.
Just make a habit of searching your pockets before you head out the door, or else have an alarm on your phone go off 10 mins before you go to school to check your pockets. Also, at my school, it's still illegal to have a knife in your car.
 
In my days I always had my balisong- just habit, but if I brought anything else on accident- guess what, I just left in my pocket, if a teacher made a problem then they'd have bigger problems dealing with me :P
 
Just shut the hell up, no one will know! Don't be a blabbering student and tell all your friends, all the "oo's and aww's will come alive."
 
Glock26 said:
Just shut the hell up, no one will know! Don't be a blabbering student and tell all your friends, all the "oo's and aww's will come alive."
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Exactly if no one knows, and you don't flash it and be stupid guess what- know one will f&@$ing know!

I was a theatre tech in school- and hell the teacher actually didn't mind us carrying knives...

My 2cents
 
Nebulae said:
I would not recommend this. You could be putting his job in jeopardy, I dont think that teachers can cary either, but he would get in trouble if someone found out that it came from a kid Just put it in your backpack, no fuss, nobody has to know. backpack or locker, or car the best, are better options than keeping it on your person.
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Teachers carry at my school. I know of at least four teachers and the head janitor. And thats just the ones i remember from junior high. my social studies teacher GAVE us razors to use during several projects
 
Or move to NH (lol jk)

but seriously, i can carry a gun to class. (college) but i don't cause people would all freak out..

Hurp
 
First of all, most places require you to be 18 to posess a knife. I'm 21 and had I gone to the principals office with my knife they would have expelled me and probably slapped other charges on top of that. At my school if you got in a fight they didnt just suspend you for a few days, they got the police involved and handed out battery/assault charges on those involved. There were days I forgot my knife was one me considering my senior year I was already an explorer at a firehouse spending 4 nights a week there. If you wake up in the firehouse to leave for school and you had the knife for work in your pocket you generally dont think to take it out. I would put in either in the glove box or in my Fire dept. bag. If I had gotten any kind of legal trouble I would have been denied medic school and not be where I am today. If you have to ask the question on here, you are an idiot. Plain and simple. I see it as you are trying to break the rules and want to know a way around it. Is it really worth carrying the knife in school if you have the potential to get caught and potentially expelled for it? Growing up with the zero tolerance rules actually makes you realize almost how necessary they are. They have potential to keep trouble out since parents no longer teach right from wrong as its apparently wrong to lecture your children. Bottom line, if you break the rules thats your perogative but I would advise against it.
 
No one has mentioned the pulp fiction approach (i.e. bruce willis' character's father's watch). :P
 
Best advice, dont bring it to school. Technicaly, (in my state at least) if you bring a knife to the principle as soon as you know you have it, it is not considered a "weapon" (as in no harm") but if i were you, just but it in a nice place in your backpack (unless your school as backpack searches) and leave it there. i wouldnt tell anybody even your friends. getting caught with a knife is most likely automatically expelled, and possible legal action / police intervention.
 
TacticalBlade said:
First of all, most places require you to be 18 to posess a knife. I'm 21 and had I gone to the principals office with my knife they would have expelled me and probably slapped other charges on top of that. At my school if you got in a fight they didnt just suspend you for a few days, they got the police involved and handed out battery/assault charges on those involved. There were days I forgot my knife was one me considering my senior year I was already an explorer at a firehouse spending 4 nights a week there. If you wake up in the firehouse to leave for school and you had the knife for work in your pocket you generally dont think to take it out. I would put in either in the glove box or in my Fire dept. bag. If I had gotten any kind of legal trouble I would have been denied medic school and not be where I am today. If you have to ask the question on here, you are an idiot. Plain and simple. I see it as you are trying to break the rules and want to know a way around it. Is it really worth carrying the knife in school if you have the potential to get caught and potentially expelled for it? Growing up with the zero tolerance rules actually makes you realize almost how necessary they are. They have potential to keep trouble out since parents no longer teach right from wrong as its apparently wrong to lecture your children. Bottom line, if you break the rules thats your perogative but I would advise against it.
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Just my 2cents... about you mentioning "you must be 18 to have a knife legally".. not true... its 16.. so if your a junior.. your legal to carry... but honestly i dont know why this thread was ever made..? i mean if any1 brings a knife to school... well leave it in your pocket?.. and dont say anything or show anybody.... no1 will ever know... i carried a nice little 2 inch folder on my keys everyday without fail to school, what ever happened? NOTHING.. i told no1, never showed any1, never brought it out...(infront of any1).. but leme tell you how many times that lil thing helped me out back in those days =p.. (out of sight) and no.. not any illegal activity.. just things that needed to be cut.. but of course no1 had anything to do it with.. so when no1 was watching it was "magically" cut =p haha....

so yeah... just keep it out of sight..

P.S. for MOST Private schools, they CANNOT touch your bags... or ur pockets...
They'ed need to get a policeman and then the policemen would need to say "i have reason to suspect you of carrying a wepon as i sew a flash, or glimps in your pocket"... something to that effect...then u'd be searched.. other then that the teachers or principle will get in trouble with the law of they decide to "searh" you or your personal belongings...

In public schools its different as your are on "public" grounds..
 
Side note, funny story.

Friend of mine (RIP) was a BIG time duck hunter, its what he lived for. Well like any high school aged kid, after he got done hunting, he would put his shotgun behind the seat of his truck, then go get drunk with his buddies. Well, come monday morning, the police dogs show up. Through the grape vine he hears of it, and realizes he still has a benelli 12ga in his pickup behind the seat. What does he do? Goes out, grabs the gun, tosses it into his truck box along with the shells, locks it, and tosses the keys into the weeds. Hour or two passes, the dogs go through the parking lot, and alert on his truck (obviously), so he gets called in. They search his truck and dont find anything in the cab. Then they want to search the box, his response, "Well I lost the keys awhile ago, and havent been able to get it open since. I am not even sure what is in there." SO they try to pry it open to no avail... long story short, he got away with it but it cost him a couple hundred dollar box. FYI it was a small school and an honest to god mistake... he just thought quickly, luckily....

Moral of the story.... dont forget shit and bring it to school.
 
Actually there is no legal age to own a knife. I asked my local knife dealer and he told me so.
sgt244 said:
Just my 2cents... about you mentioning "you must be 18 to have a knife legally".. not true... its 16.. so if your a junior.. your legal to carry... but honestly i dont know why this thread was ever made..? i mean if any1 brings a knife to school... well leave it in your pocket?.. and dont say anything or show anybody.... no1 will ever know... i carried a nice little 2 inch folder on my keys everyday without fail to school, what ever happened? NOTHING.. i told no1, never showed any1, never brought it out...(infront of any1).. but leme tell you how many times that lil thing helped me out back in those days =p.. (out of sight) and no.. not any illegal activity.. just things that needed to be cut.. but of course no1 had anything to do it with.. so when no1 was watching it was "magically" cut =p haha....

so yeah... just keep it out of sight..

P.S. for MOST Private schools, they CANNOT touch your bags... or ur pockets...
They'ed need to get a policeman and then the policemen would need to say "i have reason to suspect you of carrying a wepon as i sew a flash, or glimps in your pocket"... something to that effect...then u'd be searched.. other then that the teachers or principle will get in trouble with the law of they decide to "searh" you or your personal belongings...

In public schools its different as your are on "public" grounds..
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