Too many knives being brought to school?

By now I am sure you all heard about the stabbing at Coral Gables High school yesterday. That's the Grove's high school,
our Grove kids go there.

Yesterday afternoon at a high school cross country meet at Kennedy Park (there were various schools competing, boys and girls: Ransom, Lourdes, Carrollton, Belen and some Gables students were there to watch their friends play), some of the kids starting talking.

They said that as they change classes and walk through the hallways that there are some gang kids that pull out their knives and try to cut kids as they walk by each other in the mob of the hallways. They specifically target new kids or Freshman at the school. One boy said he came within a 1/4 inch of having his face cut last week walking through the halls. It seems to be common knowledge,
but if one student reports another student they target that student and that student's family.

While I agree with Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho about not turning schools into prisons, random checks for knives and weapons should be the norm, the boy yesterday who was killed was stabbed multiple times with a small pen knife.

Knife Amnesty programs may work, but I doubt those with nefarious intentions are going to
turn in their weapons.

When I was in high school gum chewing was the big issue. Life was simpler then.