Thank you for that. You’re right, DavidOdden, the schools should find a reason to ban knives before banning them. The reason I started this is because many schools ban them “because they could be used as a deadly weapon,” often forgetting that pens, scissors, or even fists could also be used as “deadly weapons” by a trained (or even an untrained) person. They ban them because other schools have had problems, before finding a problem in their school. I agree that if there is a reason to ban knives, they should do it; but I feel that if their is not a reason, then the administration should act accordingly by not banning knives. I posed the question not because I feel that knives should be banned, but because I feel they should be allowed (with a few restrictions, possibly); not to find a reason to ban them, but to find reasons not to ban them.