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[quote=Anonymous]I'm hoping immediate PP is a troll (i.e., one describing 5th grader with pocketknife).  A knife on a fifth grader's property; a school where all the teachers dress up as a parody of the principal; a parent whose attitude towards the principal and school include WTF and derisive language all while ignoring the fact that to a parent/family/teacher who's witnessed violence on school grounds, a knife is a knife is a knife....

As for OP's situation, while I'm really sorry about all of this, I can't imagine how it could have ended differently.  I live in CO where we have had multiple school shootings and deaths, most famously Columbine...if there is ANYTHING we have learned, it's that we cannot underestimate the messages that drugs and weapons send.  Here in CO, of course, pot's legal for those of age, but for any student to have any weapon and/or drug on his/her person or property is, quite simply, an invitation for that student's world to go upside down.  It may not seem fair, but I'd argue that it's far better than having other students' and families' lives upended because someone decided 'kids will be kids' or 'he just didn't realize what was in the car.'

OP, I really am sorry this all happened.  I don't judge you, and I honestly wonder if all these people chiming in to say 'you should have known better' and/or 'why is he working so much' have teenagers of their own, even as I wonder if they understand that it's the norm for kids to work all weekend in many, many situations.  Your child is facing some very stiff consequences, but I daresay they were all spelled out in the school/county handbook and that he's being treated exactly as the process promised.  He can come out of this just fine (and I don't think you have to write off college next year, btw -- just perhaps not the college he expected to enroll in at this time): the test will be letting him see your love even while he reckons with your disappointment as well as his own disappointment in himself.  Please keep trying to help him see he's not being unfairly targeted; he's being treated as the policies warrant.  I have to say that all the letters of support from his faculty, while kind, could have a negative impact on your son's psyche: it's imperative that not feel martyred, an attitude that never got anybody anywhere, and you can help him with this, OP.  All this can have a positive outcome; I wish you all the best.[/quote]

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