Have Schools Changed This Much?

 So, I was greeted this morning with a story of a kid with a weapon in their vehicle. 

I thought an AK47....Or a AR15......Or a French made Mas 49/56. ( Shoots a round the size of a .308. ) Some sort of an assault weapon. It scared even me.

I would have been concerned if those had found. 

When law enforcement search the vehicle they found a " large knife and several vapes."

Good grief. 

I remember one of you had a M-1 bayonet in my class as part of their research paper.  M-1 bayonet is what the US Army, US Marines used in World War II on the end of their rifles. ( M-1 Garand).

Now, I know we have to be careful now days. 

And perhaps their were threats associated with the knife, but I remember when every boy at Buna High School had a pocket knife in their pocket. Heck, I remember when the  gubmint/economics teacher had a large yellow handle Case Stockman in his pocket he'd gotten from Mott's in Spurger, and may or may not have been known to loan said Stockman to a student, male or female for whatever......I remember when we had " Alphabet Arson" in which we burned letters at homecoming instead of a bonfire at homecoming and pocket knives were needed to cut, well, paper, cloth, other items, as the letters were being constructed. 

I understand the concern, I do, but have we come to this?

When I was in high school, I went duck hunting after school with my physics teacher. We kept our shotguns locked-up in his closet. On know on Saturdays, I met with several of you at a kid's house and we went to the gun range. We had a dad or two went with us, to show off his new rifle, or pistol. 

And I know that THC can be put in vapes, but in most cases, the vapes are for nicotine...

It hasn't been that long ago when high schools had ' smoke shacks' and or smoking areas. I remember having a 5-pack of cheap White Owl cigars in my shirt pocket in high school. Heck, students had packs of Marlboros in the shirt pockets, and boys all had 'skoal' rings on their blue jeans. 

I was sent to the store my senior year by a  teacher to get him a pack of Winstons and a box of matches. But of course that was 1975.  

And in college, heck everyone in the history department smoked, many trying to look academic had pipes....The cooler professors Woodbine British cigarettes or a French made cigarette with a yellow corn paper.... 

Even when our son was living here, there was a Chinese made AK47( I teased my daughter in law her cousin made it, until I found out she had a relative that worked for the company in an administrative position, again, her family is sort of fancy.) with a Hungarian Tanker Magazine fully loaded in his room. And was in 2006. The gun was there in case of an emergency. And he knew not to be carrying it around. Especially not carry it to school.  I wonder if we'd get in trouble today if he had that gun in his room? 

Am I not paranoid enough? Should I be more paranoid today? I know kids should not have guns at school in 2025, but I wonder, where did we lose our kids? Where/when did we no longer trust them? What has happened to us in this country? Where was the change?