Posted by WA-Hal on December 28, 2010 at 14:39:34 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: Re: jack knife posted by Two Dogs on December 28, 2010 at 12:26:13:
Sad, but true, and the SWAT team idea isn't that much of an exaggeration. Before I ever gave my child or grandchild a knife, I would carefully explain that it never goes to school. Because today at best it would be taken away if a teacher or administrator ever learned it was at school, and at worst, it might result in a criminal charge and/or suspension. I would not want the child to get in trouble because of something I gave him.
I understand where the school people are coming from, what with the incidents that have happened in schools the last 10 or 15 years. They say zero tolerance, and they mean it.
When I was in school in the 50's and 60's, almost every boy had a knife in his pocket. And later it was the fashion to carry a sharpened rat-tail comb sticking out of your back pocket. No other persons ever got stuck, but I stuck myself on that dumb comb a couple of times. That went on until the teacher said they all the sharpened combs had to go home, and if they came back, they would be cut off or confiscated. In high school, I and many others had deer rifles at our rural school, in our lockers, to be able to "hunt home" after school. Nobody ever got in trouble over the firearms and no one got hurt. But that was a different time: today I think it would be a FELONY to bring a gun to school in my state.
So I would do some careful thinking and talking before I gave a child a pocket knife. Kids will be kids!
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