I can't recall for sure. I don't think I carried one to elementry school but had one around the farm most of the time. By about grade seven the schools had a strict no knives policy so when the teachers had to open something they had to ask me or one of my friends to do it for them. Lol. We were pretty good kids so when peeling an orange in the hallway the teachers tended to not notice that it wasn't a plastic spoon we were using.
In grade ten we made knives in shop class. After that I went home and made a sword with a 17 inch blade that ended up back it shop class for a final honing on the belt sander. Again no questions asked. Got to love small rural towns after all I'm only in my early thirties and would even be classed into the "me" generation even though I would take offence to that.
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