He bought a geode over the weekend. This mainstream class actually just finished a unit on rocks, so he came home yesterday and said his teacher said he could take them. He's wanted to take other things and I've made him ask before, and he's always come home and teacher said no, and that was that. but this time, he said she said yes.
He ended up forgetting the geode, but had a piece of another geode that he remembered. It never got to mainstream classroom, and he was told by someone that he can't take things, and they seemed to not send a very happy message to me about it. So I emailed classroom teacher, and she's planning on him bringing the geode in. She thinks it will be neat for the class to see how it looks before it was broken open, etc, and a good continuation of their unit.
So apparently all of his "people" need to get together on how they handle this sort of thing...just wondered what was the "norm".