I carried a pocket knife almost everyday in high school and never once had a problem. If you aren’t waving it around, threatening people, or overall being an idiot most people never even notice.
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FireRetardant@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah, especially 16-18 when I was working, I usually always had a pocket knife or multi tool on me because they would come in handy. That said, we didn’t have metal detectors or strange prison like school like we do now apparently.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I carried my Schrade Switch-It every day in the little seam pocket of my carpenter’s jeans (as was the style at the time) and the only flak I ever caught for it was one day the principal spotting it and telling me he didn’t want to see me with my “pager” at school anymore.
I told him he had my scout’s honor that he would never see me with a pager so long as a lived. Yes, this sailed right over his head. I still didn’t get into trouble, though, which is surprising given the sheer variety of other stupid and highly spurious things that somehow got me in trouble in school.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The closest i came to getting caught is in biology i etched some notches into a toothpick to work an experiment easier. Another student asked how i altered the toothpick, i offered him my knife and he said something along the lines of “just notch mine and i won’t tell anyone what I saw”.
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
telling me he didn’t want to see me with my “pager” at school anymore.
Oh sir it’s not a pager… it’s a vibrator
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I knew a kid who did this. Some random kid saw and reported it. His dad was the head janitor of the high school, he helped his dad, was on the payroll so actually was working for the school district himself part-time. He still almost got expelled, managed to only get a week of suspension.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It does depend on the district and general vibe of the school. A big city school may have a different reaction than a rural one. Mine had a mix of city kids and country kids as the school was on the edge of the city. Our school also offered an outdoor education program that included things like fire starting and canoe tripping so students enrolled in that would have a valid excuse to have a knife on them. The student’s history of getting into trouble and reaction to getting caught is also a likely factor.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Depends when and where you grew up, probably. We had to pass through metal detectors every day and a concealed weapon would have been pretty dumb.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yes these days it may have been different. We barely had camera coverage. For one of my birthdays a friend gifted me an 8" hunting knife in the stairwell at school. I thanked him but did ask to maybe at least wait til the end of the day or a weekend next time cause that knife is harder to justify carrying than a folding blade.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Times, they have changed. I was the same, as were most of the people I went to school with. Pocket knifes are just handy, I still carry one most of the time.
tino_408@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This isn’t well timed with what happened in Canada sadly
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
“How to stop masked men claiming to be ‘ICE Agents’ from kidnapping children”
We need the other type of school shooters, the type that do the inverse and protect children.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Sniper towers. All over town. Rooftop emplacements “You’re kind ain’t welcome here”. They want to go back in time, remind ICE what that can be like. Warning shots only though, of course. Unless they don’t back off.
nexguy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Real pro tip, you can glue a crayon sharpener AND a pencil sharpener to the stalk. You can also roll up a cheat sheet and put it in the barrel as people tend to not look in there.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Corn stalk or girlfriend stalk?
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
In my last year of high school the following oppressive regulations were imposed: no knives over 3 1/2", no animals guns or smoking in the building. Somehow this did not prevent me from getting high in the library with a kitten and revolver most days
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
At least you didn’t break the knife size rule.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
Briefly considered getting a bigger knife on pure anti-authoritarian principle, but really liked the one I had
_haha_oh_wow_@piefed.social 7 hours ago
“IS THAT A VERTICAL FOREGRIP!?”
-ATF probably
modus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This is a bad idea. The placement of the angled foregrip on that AR makes me think it’s a pistol-length upper. This knife handle is functioning as a vertical foregrip, which is a felony without the proper tax stamp. If you bring this knife to school, you’re going to be charged with a felony.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I was in HS in a different era I generally had a pocket knife on me and a gun in the car for most of my time in there
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
The saying is “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”, but I think this probably gets a pass
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
They just stabbed the barrel so all bullets get cut in two. Makes school shootings 100% more ammo efficient.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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