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.
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 schools like we do now apparently.
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 I 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.
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”.
Depends when and where you grew up, probably. We had to pass through metal detectors every day and attempting to bring a concealed weapon would have been pretty dumb.
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.
They just stabbed the barrel so all bullets get cut in two. Makes school shootings 100% more ammo efficient.
The saying is “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”, but I think this probably gets a pass
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
