Well, Thank god I am a School Administrator in Nevada, we have some sane legislators here, we sent the others to the feds. When Billy Clinton’s Gun Free Schools Act was passed (the source of this zero tolerance policy) a Nevada Legislator decide that a good kid should not be suspended or expelled for idiotic reasons and they passed law creating the offence “Weapon(s)- Non Stat”. This allows me a lot of leeway in handling weapons.
Example 1: Joey went hunting over the weekend and left his skinning tools in his backpack and brings them to school, people see them and report it. I investigate and find out he never took them out of the backpack and indeed did go hunting and forget to take them out. I call parents and they come over and pick up the tools and Joey spends the day with me in detention for forgetting to check his backpack before coming to school. Dad or Mom likely imposes a much higher level of punishment.
Example 2: Marie drives to school with the Drill Team’s Rifles in her car, filled m-14s here, and they are spotted before she can take them to the shooting ranger, yes we have rifle teams on campus. I will go out see that they are the Drill Team’s and then make sure she gets them to the proper area, and go back to dealing with girl crap and rumors.
Example 3: as above but Marie is pointing one of the rifles at students and saying” I’m gonna get you” I will then suspend her to a hearing and asked for her to attend a school for bad kids, and not come back to my school.
Basically, if you have something you are not threatening people with and it is not a working firearm, including airsoft etc. I do not have to suspend if I do not want to. It is all about intent including the intent “to just mess with some people”
Piper
