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About fifteen years ago one of my friends got suspended for bringing a knife in. He was going on a school trip and put his clothes in his camping backpack which
by 8organicbits 3y ago
About fifteen years ago one of my friends got suspended for bringing a knife in. He was going on a school trip and put his clothes in his camping backpack which always stored a small knife. The school searched the bags, looking for alcohol or something, and found the knife. The school had a zero tolerance policy, so no logic was applied.
I was really annoyed, so I cataloged all the knives already present in the school. I walked into the teachers break room (no one really noticed me): three kitchen knives on the drying rack. The wood shop had tons of sharp knife-like tools. Pointed scissors in the art room. A teacher noticed what I was doing and showed me the pen knife on their key chain. Most classrooms had a letter opener, box cutter, or similar at the teachers desk. I think I found thirty knives before I gave up.
Students need knives and sharp objects to learn. Controlling access is fine but eliminating knives if a fools errand.
- fauxpause_ 3y agoWhat was the point of tracking all the knives and giving up because you were succeeding in your goal of finding many knives?
- 8organicbits 3y agoThere wasn't a high level goal. I was a student who was frustrated that a knife in a kids backpack was a huge issue, but the dozens of knives already in school were fine.
- atonse 3y agoWere you able to take this data to get your friend's "record" cleared? Hopefully there isn't any written record for these kinds of things.
- 8organicbits 3y agoNo record.
- morpheuskafka 3y agoSo, the text of NC’s statute prohibiting knives in schools also applies to colleges, and prohibits basically any “sharp or pointed object,” with exceptions for “instructional or maintenance” purposes. Still, it could encompass everything from kitchen knives in an apartment on campus to tools in someone’s car, tools in the makerspace (which is not technically instructional), etc. Does anyone know if this could be attacked as overly vague since it would encompass so many things that are regularly brought to and allowed on campus?
- voakbasda 3y agoProbably could be attacked, but that could harm the children. Politically, this sounds like suicide.