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<blockquote data-quote="Abbey" data-source="post: 335773" data-attributes="member: 179"><p>We had gun racks as well during HS. Native Americans were allowed to carry knives as it was a cultural things. Non Indians could not. Oddly enough one of my first encounters with a difficult child was my first year of teaching. One of my Indian students had a really bad day. He stayed after school and literally put the knife to my neck while I was alone in an outer building of the school. I had good enough relationship with the kid that I was able to talk him out of being so stupid. Even more odd is *I* was the one who went to court to petition for him to remain in school. Bad home life, alcoholic parent, very transient, etc. He stayed in school and ended up being one of the most respectful young man I've ever encountered.</p><p></p><p>The only other weapons incident was when I was teaching drop out prevention in Florida. The sweetest, most kind and quiet 11 year old brought a gun to school in a gym bag. He had been showing it to the other students ALL DAY. I have a very firm policy with students that if they have something they know they should disclose, but are afraid to because of peer pressure to leave me a note in my mailbox. (I had the cutest little mailbox that I toted all around the country.) They don't have to sign it, but it's pretty easy to tell who wrote the note. So that day I check my mailbox towards the end of the day and there is a note that says, "Jamal has a gun in his gym bag."</p><p></p><p>Now, Jamal is about 3 feet from me and I see the bag. We had the old school intercoms so I calmly went over to it and asked for the principal to come to my room as I needed to use the restroom. I waited by the door for what seemed like forever and the principal comes. He was pretty irritated. I tell him about the note and his mood quickly changed. He ran back and got a few other male teachers, came back and walked up to this poor kid. They grabbed his bag and the kid absolutely broke down.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately it was found out that it was not his gun, but his older brother's gun that he pressured to take with him on the bus as one of his friends was going to turn him in if he brought it. I was not able to save Jamal from returning to school. He was arrested and went to juvie. Oddly enough it ended up being a good learning experience for the rest of my motley crew...think about your choices. Poor Jamal wouldn't have killed a fly and they all knew it. He was allowed to return to school 18 months later...in the same grade. Yeah, that is setting him up for success.</p><p></p><p>They did not shut down the school during that incident as well.</p><p></p><p>Abbey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abbey, post: 335773, member: 179"] We had gun racks as well during HS. Native Americans were allowed to carry knives as it was a cultural things. Non Indians could not. Oddly enough one of my first encounters with a difficult child was my first year of teaching. One of my Indian students had a really bad day. He stayed after school and literally put the knife to my neck while I was alone in an outer building of the school. I had good enough relationship with the kid that I was able to talk him out of being so stupid. Even more odd is *I* was the one who went to court to petition for him to remain in school. Bad home life, alcoholic parent, very transient, etc. He stayed in school and ended up being one of the most respectful young man I've ever encountered. The only other weapons incident was when I was teaching drop out prevention in Florida. The sweetest, most kind and quiet 11 year old brought a gun to school in a gym bag. He had been showing it to the other students ALL DAY. I have a very firm policy with students that if they have something they know they should disclose, but are afraid to because of peer pressure to leave me a note in my mailbox. (I had the cutest little mailbox that I toted all around the country.) They don't have to sign it, but it's pretty easy to tell who wrote the note. So that day I check my mailbox towards the end of the day and there is a note that says, "Jamal has a gun in his gym bag." Now, Jamal is about 3 feet from me and I see the bag. We had the old school intercoms so I calmly went over to it and asked for the principal to come to my room as I needed to use the restroom. I waited by the door for what seemed like forever and the principal comes. He was pretty irritated. I tell him about the note and his mood quickly changed. He ran back and got a few other male teachers, came back and walked up to this poor kid. They grabbed his bag and the kid absolutely broke down. Ultimately it was found out that it was not his gun, but his older brother's gun that he pressured to take with him on the bus as one of his friends was going to turn him in if he brought it. I was not able to save Jamal from returning to school. He was arrested and went to juvie. Oddly enough it ended up being a good learning experience for the rest of my motley crew...think about your choices. Poor Jamal wouldn't have killed a fly and they all knew it. He was allowed to return to school 18 months later...in the same grade. Yeah, that is setting him up for success. They did not shut down the school during that incident as well. Abbey [/QUOTE]
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