We have a project in our class where you have to survive on an "island" for a week or whatnot, and one of the students asked if they could bring an ax. Not to kill people but to cut firewood etc. guess what the teacher said? No because it's "too violent" and threatened the student with detention if he put it on his list of things to take along. I'm so -blam!-ing done with the zero tolerance policy, it's literally poisoning our youth to become total pussies and making them think that if something has a blade it's instantly a weapon and is inherently bad.