K.Mooneyham, I am outraged for what that school did to your son!Jusme wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:52 pmK.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2019 12:53 pm
Recently my son was honorably discharged after a six year enlistment in the USAF as an aircraft machinist and welder. However, he once got in trouble in high school due to having a "weapon" at school. What was the weapon? A multitool he was using on his bicycle, to tighten something up. He was outside the school in the parking lot when he was caught by a teacher. They threatened him with arrest and expulsion because of "zero tolerance". He was booted out of all the college-prep stuff he had been in. He never took the multitool out during school hours, he didn't threaten anyone with it, or damage school property, he simply worked on his bike in the parking lot. Again, I have major difficulty mustering up any sympathy for schools these days.
There have been too many instances of kids being punished, for non-crimes. When I was in high school, I carried a Schrade knife in a leather sheath on my belt, I might have had either a shotgun, or rifle on the gun rack, in the back window, of my pick up. None of those were illegal, and no one at the school ever questioned it. All of this just goes to show, that no matter, how many laws are passed, preventing violence begins at home. It would have never crossed my mind, to use either my knife, or my guns, against anyone, because I was taught better at home.
A multitool? Like a Leatherman or something similar?? I am at a loss of words to describe my disgust for this so call 'zero tolerance policy' that would end a young man's bright future for having his bicycle tool in the parking lot fixing his bike! My sympathies are with you and your son. And please pass on to your son....thank you for your service to your country. 
Jusme, I totally agree with you. I too, had a gun rack in the family pickup with a Browning A5, and a Remington Model 8 when I was a kid growing up in Clay County. Parked in the high school parking lot, and never a problem. I'm saddened with the way young people are treated just by exercising a God given right to peaceful coexistence. It boggles my mind.