Back when I was in 6th or 7th grade I accidentally brought a lighter to school. I lived on a farm and my family would burn the flammable garbage so I probably had it in my coat from going out the night before to start the fire. I didn't report it to the teacher though. When I discovered I had it I lied and said I had to go to the bathroom, I went to the Secretary's office just down the hall from the bathroom and handed it in. My mother was a teacher at the school and I didn't have a history of being a trouble maker so I didn't get into any trouble at all, I didn't even hear anything from my mom about it. This was before Columbine too.

I don't know if I would have gotten off so easily if this happened in this day and age.

So they're finally loosening up a little, then?

Good. He will never make it in today's business world with a bad habit like honesty.

That'll teach you to be honest.

32oz High Life: Kids today sure are dumb.

He made a mistake, admitted to making a mistake and was punished. From now on, he'll just keep his mouth shut, for good or bad

SharkTrager: If today's teachers knew how often, in elementary school, I accidentally had my scout knife in my pocket they would shiat bricks.

shiat.. If teachers today knew as early as the 90's kids were rolling joints in class, bringing acid to school, knives, vodka etc etc.. I'm pretty confident that if our HS back in the day every had some asshole start opening fire that he would have been lynched and hanging from the flagpole before police arrived.

*facepalm*
*sigh*
WTF is wrong with people today?

heater: The military style bag was given to him as a Christmas gift from his aunt, who bought it at a yard sale.

Nice.

Yeah, a military style bag does make a really nice present for any kid still at the tail end of playing GI Joes. Usually you'd have to go to a surplus store to get one, but props to the aunt for finding one at a yard sale.

The first rule of Chess Club is: You do not talk about weapons in Chess Club...
The second rule of Chess Club is: You do NOT tell teachers ANYTHING about Chess Club!

MannaxOne:
I swear it is like they are those in power are trying to raise a generation of wimps or liars.

Oh you have NO idea of just how right you are

oryx: He's suspended and still has to go to school, what kind of double think is that?

Bascially he's in detention for 8 hours a day.

namegoeshere: Winning: Back when I was in 6th or 7th grade I accidentally brought a lighter to school. I lived on a farm and my family would burn the flammable garbage so I probably had it in my coat from going out the night before to start the fire. I didn't report it to the teacher though. When I discovered I had it I lied and said I had to go to the bathroom, I went to the Secretary's office just down the hall from the bathroom and handed it in. My mother was a teacher at the school and I didn't have a history of being a trouble maker so I didn't get into any trouble at all, I didn't even hear anything from my mom about it. This was before Columbine too.

I don't know if I would have gotten off so easily if this happened in this day and age.

You sound young. My high school had a smoking area. Plenty of kids had lighters in their pockets. And the majority of the boys had pocket knives.

^^ This also.. My H.S. had a smoking area. It was a patch of concrete only about 30ft from the school but it wasn't their property. Teachers, Principals etc would walk by a platform of smoking underages students without a care in the world. Some would join us or bum a smoke off us. We turned out fine. We also had something called "open lunch".. We could freely leave school grounds and do whatever we wanted during lunch period as long as we made it back to class on time.

GBB: oryx: That way, he gets the substandard education that will guarantee he will never have a decent job. The system works!

And if he ever gets back on his feet, just kick him to the ground, again.

Knife thread!

Xmas present from Mrs. Buck

oryx: He's suspended and still has to go to school, what kind of double think is that?

Sounds like "Double secret suspension" to me.

BarbadoSlim: How's trusting the MAN workin' out for ya, dweeb.

This.

Winning: Back when I was in 6th or 7th grade I accidentally brought a lighter to school. I lived on a farm and my family would burn the flammable garbage so I probably had it in my coat from going out the night before to start the fire. I didn't report it to the teacher though. When I discovered I had it I lied and said I had to go to the bathroom, I went to the Secretary's office just down the hall from the bathroom and handed it in. My mother was a teacher at the school and I didn't have a history of being a trouble maker so I didn't get into any trouble at all, I didn't even hear anything from my mom about it. This was before Columbine too.

I don't know if I would have gotten off so easily if this happened in this day and age.

My friend always carried a knife on him, and after Columbine he made sure to measure it and read the entire Student Code of Conduct. To the chagrin of a teacher who always wanted to nail him for *something*, it was 2 3/4" - and the Code of Conduct said you could have knives up to 3". Heh.

They changed it after that. They also added metal detectors, added a backpack ban inbetween classes (facepalm - I carried around a farmer's market style shopping cart for awhile, someone else did a wagon), stopped letting juniors and seniors leave for lunch, and required all the *teachers* to wear visible IDs (one paid the entire year of fines for not wearing his upfront).

Yet two years after I graduated I still just walked into the damn building to drop off something for my brother and say hi to a few teachers who weren't knee-jerk reactionary idiots.
The policy worked wonderfully, obviously

Death_Poot: This is always something that I've taught my son.......keep your mouth sit in a situation like this. People in authority these days only usually only care about the "instant offense". They don't give a shiat about underlying circumstances, for a number of reasons.

They make it too damn easy to get a record these days, with no latitude to learn from your mistakes. Better to be on the safe side and shut the fark up.

My mom always *said* it was better not to lie and she'd go easier on us if we fessed up. My brother and I learned by ages 8 and 10 that that was BS and that we should cover each other when necessary and the favor would be returned in time.

My cousins, on the other hand - my aunt actually practiced what she preached, so they certainly had more trust in authority figures.

/thanks, Mom, for lying through your teeth about that sorta thing, I guess
//healthy skepticism of promises from authorities from an early, early age
///got my one and only in-house suspension for putting a blank floppy disk into a non-networked computer

I never leave home without it...