Jordan Wiser, a student at Ashtabula County Technical School in Jefferson, is finishing up his senior year from home after school officials searched his car in December and found the folding knife and an Airsoft gun. School officials called police, who charged him with illegal conveyance of a weapon onto a school ground based on the three-inch knife.
“I declined to allow them to search myself or my car and that I wanted to talk to my lawyer or my father,” Wiser told FoxNews.com. “They told me it wasn’t an option.”
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Ridiculous, the Police State has arrived.
Bull crap the kid looks nerdy enough to know the school policy. So he screwed up. You liberal azz if he was Black you would be losing your mind. Rules are rules
"Zero Tolerance" rules are baloney. So is the expectation that some "nerdy" high-school-kid knows every rule in and out.
There is NO reason it should be at this level for two minor items (small knife and air-soft gun) - both of which are reasonable to have.
Rules are rules... but without the ability to apply those rules in context, they are worthless. Expulsion for first offense? Seriously? What a waste of time and a SERIOUS over-reaction.
Karma would be a school official get trapped by their seat belt and not be able to get out of the car.
This was not a weapon this was a tool! Are we going to stop everyone from having a tool in their trunk if the school board thinks it's dangerous?
Guess what. If I hit you in the head with a hard cover history book....I could easily kill you. I could also kill you with a pen, pencil, chair, slamming your head in a door, my bare fists, the strap on my book bag, my belt EVERYTHING IS A WEAPON IF YOU WANT IT TO BE. It is not a weapon until it is used as a weapon.
Get it? They all require a person intent on doing harm. The only ones doing harm here is the school system.
I carry a small knife and always have. It's a tool and I use it everyday for one task or another.
What the hell is going on in this country anyway?
You can get your unborn baby killed and you are protecting your reproductive rights. Men can put their business up some other guys backside and you are a hero for telling people about it. (Coming Out)
But you can't be a good old common sense country boy anymore and carry a small knife. What the heck, will screwdrivers be next? They are every bit as dangerous as a small pocket knife. Liberals need to just go away.
More stupid liberal politically correct crap. Those idiots are ruining a young man's life and those pompous asses don't even care. I hope he sues everyone involved and I hope he wins.
Rules are rules no matter how ridiculous they seem.
Any student could walk right into the cafeteria kitchen and grab a knife if they really wanted to cause harm. There probably are some sharp tools in the shop class room too. Zero tolerance policies are knee jerk reactions to isolated incidents.
For those of you who say "rules are rules" I have to say, who's to decide that a pocket knife is a weapon or a tool? It sounds like this school official could make a weapon out of a tampon.
The article does not state what the young man posted in an online forum that prompted the school to search the car. As 6:36 states, rules are rules. I can't help but wonder if he was doing some bragging about what was in his car in what he thought was a forum that would only be seen by his fellow students.
Good Lord! We all used to hang in the school parking lot showing off our iron and planning the next squirrel hunt! Teachers included! What the heck happened? When we all had our own guns, there were no school shootings! Only since they made schools "gun free" did this crap start happening! Let's go back to when no one would dare...
7:49 you're a dumb crass... he was probably bragging about going to EMT class after school! AND, it's America and an AIRSOFT! It's not illegal to brag about! Fool.
Rules are the rules, huh? Sorta what the Nazi's said when other German soldiers were throwing babies off roofs and into fire pits. "Rules are the rules" is a rote, trite, and brainless excuse used by people who are perfectly happy with other people doing their thinking for them. Start using your brain for something other than deciding who should win the next American Idol show.
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