Family: Teen Suspended After Trying To Do The Right Thing [View all]
FOX CHAPEL (KDKA) – A high school student says he is being punished for trying to do the right thing.
He told school officials when he realized he brought his pocketknife to a football game.
But he was suspended anyway.
“I dropped him off right at the corner there by the stop sign,” said David Schaffner, father to the 16-year-old who was suspended.
Schaffner is a proud father, but now also an angry one. He dropped off his son at Fox Chapel Friday night for a football game.
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“He was cutting branches and what not with it,” Schaffner said. “Just forgot he had it in his pocket.”
There is no metal detector, no bag check there, but Schaffner grabbed a security guard.
“Intentionally, willfully handed the pocket knife,” he said.
He even voluntarily wrote out and signed a statement, saying:
“I was in the woods behind my house at my tree stand and forgot to take my knife out of my pocket … came to the game and gave it to the security guard.”
With that, the Fox Chapel principal kicked him out of the game and then early Monday morning kicked him out of school for 10 days.
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