Honor Student Suspended for his Dad's Fishing Knife Left in the Car

[ChunkyMonkey]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...d-from-school/

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/24...in-fathers-car

Video at the link.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn - A high school student in Montgomery County has been suspended after school officials found a knife inside his father's car. David Duren-Sanner should be spending his time going through college and scholarship applications this time of year.
Instead, he's wondering if he'll even be able to graduate after what hundreds of people are calling an overreaction to a mistake.
On Thursday, Duren-Sanner, a senior at Northeast High School drove his father's car to school. During a random lockdown, his car was chosen to be searched.
Duren-Sanner gave permission because he said he had nothing to hide.
His father is a commercial fisherman on the West Coast and had apparently left a fishing knife in the car. Duren-Sanner's father said it might have been wedged between one of the seats.
Duren-Sanner said he told school officials and the Sheriff's department the car was his father's and he didn't know the knife was in it.
"He's like 'it doesn't matter it was in your possession anyway,'" Duren-Sanner said.
School officials suspended him for 10 days, the maximum allowed under school policy, and then he was reprimanded to attend 90 days at an alternative school.
Peggy Duren is Duren-Sanner's grandmother whom he lives with. She said she tried explaining the knife didn't belong to her grandson, but claims school officials wouldn't listen.
"Unfortunately (the vice principal) said that's the way it is now: Guilty until proven innocent. It's part of this zero tolerance policy," she said."
Duren-Sanner has an appeal hearing on Wednesday with the school board.
If his punishment is upheld, Duren-Sanner will not be able to attend prom, his JROTC ball or walk at graduation. His family said it's unclear whether he'll be able to graduate at all.
Duren said her grandson has a 3.0 grade point average, is on the honor roll and he has never even been sent to the principal's office She said scholarship applications have stopped since it is unclear what her grandson's future is.
Duren-Sanner also faces weapons charges with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department.
An online petition has garnered more than 600 signatures in support of Duren-Sanner. The petition urges school officials to drop all charges against him, end his suspension and not punish him for days missed.
Repeated requests for comment from the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System were not responded to.

What have we becoming?! Father left a knife that is Over 3" of knife is considered as possession of a deadly weapon, I bet that school kitchen has plenty of deadly weapon, BAN CAFETARIAS!

[merl]

Damn good thing his father went fishing instead of hunting

[UrbanWolf]

Gotta get one of the knife bins from Britain in that schol.

[Rabid]

During a random lockdown, his car was chosen to be searched.

What the hell is a random lockdown and why are they searching students cars?

[ChunkyMonkey]

What the hell is a random lockdown and why are they searching students cars?

It's a communal activity ordered by the smartest and brightest of the community in order to protect the commoners for better commonality... but please don't mistake them for the communists.

[BPTactical]

What the hell is a random lockdown and why are they searching students cars?

A total evisceration of your childs rights.
This is why neither of my kids ever parked on school property.

[hatidua]

All part of the grand plan.

Make knives carry a 10-day suspension, just imagine if it'd been a gun. We are wimpifying (yeah, it's a word, I just created it!) the entire nation. Boys can't have BB-guns or knives, soon pencils will be deemed dangerous.

Thank goodness I'm 47 instead of 7, -this isn't the circus it once was.

[merl]

10 day suspension and 3 months in C-school.
C is not known for being college prep

[DFBrews]

When I was a senior so 2005 they ran the drug/explosive dogs through our school and parking lot they hit on mine and a buddies car we had been shooting the day before and I still had the target stand in the trunk. Consented to search because if i didnt automatic 2 weeks and they would get a warrant and i could not play whatever sport I was in at the time.
They found a can of chew in my car and a pocket knife in my buddies. Both over 18 but with the zero tolerance thing he got a week and I got 3 days suspension. This was in a town where my graduating class was 31. Bullshit

[blacklabel]

They screwed that kid over literally nothing. Just so they can swing their ugly totalitarian dicks around.