This is so completely stupid. When we went to school, pretty much every boy had a pocket knife in his pocket and a rifle hanging in the back window of his pick up.
Something somewhat similar though it wouldnt have effected our entire town, just Cory's reputation and legal status. Cory was still in the self contained BEH class in 9th grade and that class was basically a zoo. There was no teaching going on in that class. I never saw a book in there or any homework or tests. Most of the kids in there were actually either severely mentally ill with things like schizophrenia or they were just waiting to go to Department of Juvenile Justice.
Well one day all these kids were at lunch...talk about a mad house!...and some got up and tossed a knife at Cory's feet. Then this same kid yells out..."Hey, Cory dropped a knife, I heard it!" Several other people started saying they heard it fall too including one of the staff from clear across the room about 70ft away!
They took Cory into the office, handcuffed him, threatened to take him to the police....etc. They swore they could get prints off the knife. Tony and I asked to see the knife because at this point we were searching him every morning due to him smoking so I would have caught a knife. They bring the knife out and it was obviously not one of ours. We told the cops to go check that knife for finger prints because it wouldnt come back to my son.
