Not all schools are run by paranoid teachers

[packerbacker]

Two weeks ago my grandson, just turned 11, was at school. His teacher was helping him find something in his backpack. All of a sudden they came across a small pocket knife that had 1 blade about two inches long. He, as should be, was sent to the principal's office. The principal asked him why he had the knife in his backpack so my grandson went on to explain that one of his chores at home is to feed the animals. That includes cattle and horses. He uses the knife, on a daily basis, to cut the bailing twine on the hay bails. A few days before he had been in a hurry and put the knife in his backpack and forgot about it. He had even asked his mom if she had seen it because he couldn't remember where he had left it. He was allowed to go back to class and his parents can pick the knife up at any time. The real America is still out there scattered around the countryside. He would be incarcerated in some places for the same "crime".

 

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[Coureur de Bios]

It's more than a shame how we've allowed our freedom to be taken through the acts of a few lunatics. Way back, many years ago now, most every young boy in my grade school carried a pocketknife. We played "knifes" or "mumblypeg" at recess. When the bell rang, everyone folded up his knife and we went back to class. No one was stabbed or threatened. We were boys being boys.

Some years ago, when my grandson was in preschool on a parochial school, his teacher asked him what he and his grandpa did when we were together. He truthfully responded, "We load bullets." He enjoyed pulling the lever on the press. I asked what his teacher thought about his response, and he said, "She thought that was cool." Sometime paranoia is relative to geography as well as individual perception.

On the other hand, the son of an acquaintance of mine was helping out at building sets for a play at his high school and his mother had to answer to the principal as to why he should not be suspended for bringing a staple gun to school. It seems that stupidity can reign supreme in most any quarter of our fair land.

 

[arnofarrell]

Wow a staple gun. I used to carry one in my car when I was in school for a construction job.

I was talking to my friend the other day and he said when he was in high school him and his friends would bring there guns to school during hunting season and the school had no problem with that. This was a couple years ago.

 

[spartacus53]

Two weeks ago my grandson, just turned 11, was at school. His teacher was helping him find something in his backpack. All of a sudden they came across a small pocket knife that had 1 blade about two inches long.

packer, they still carry those in NYC, they call them toothpicks

 

[Red James Cash]

Thats what happens when you give any idiot any kind of position of power.

 

[Coureur de Bios]

Then, of course, back in the '50s, one of our high school activities was Rifle Club. It was an era when common sense was still alive. The school provided .22 rifles, targets, and bullet traps. Boys and girls both participated.

Opening day of deer season is still a formal or informal holiday, depending upon if it's part of a labor contract or not. Schools mostly take the day off for lack of interest.

 

[arnofarrell]

Then, of course, back in the '50s, one of our high school activities was Rifle Club. It was an era when common sense was still alive. The school provided .22 rifles, targets, and bullet traps. Boys and girls both participated.

Opening day of deer season is still a formal or informal holiday, depending upon if it's part of a labor contract or not. Schools mostly take the day off for lack of interest.

I hear ya, it is the same here in Iowa. The same goes for opening day pheasant. My friend and cousin had no problem at there school. They would load up with there guns and bring them to school in there trucks and the school didnt care because it is part of our heritage here in the rural midwest.

 

[Coureur de Bios]

Oh yah. Came out and shot a pheasant or two a few years back now in the Mt. Ayr area.

 

[arnofarrell]

Season ended last month hear and now I have seen a few dozen, mostly roosters around my place after it snows.

 

[Dave44]

I had a job breaking horses on the western slope of Colorado for a time, and Those darn birds caused a rodeo every time one went up! I had never been around them before.
It did not take long before I was cringing when I got near a hedgerow!

I would comment on allowing weapons near school, but it is obvious that I am too old to understand, We always had a rifle in a gunrack in high school, But back then we were raised with a moral compass and the parents and teachers could dicipline you if you needed it.

 

[packerbacker]

Yeah, my folks were separated for a while. I was living with my mom and she bought me a 12 gauge Mossberg bolt action for my 13th birthday. My buddy and I would walk down the 2-lane highway and then hunt cottontails in the fields. Nobody ever bothered us. Now I'm an adult and they bother the crap out of me.