Leader Staff
A student at Shawano Community Middle School was found Monday to be carrying a knife that school officials described as a “toy knife.”
School Superintendent Gary Cumberland would not describe what made the knife a toy, but he said the item “was not a dangerous weapon.”
School officials investigating a report of a student with a knife conducted a student locker search Monday while directing that students be placed under a secure hold in classrooms at the middle school, 1050 S. Union St.
No weapons were found in any lockers, but officials later met with a student and discovered he was carrying a toy knife.
Cumberland would not say whether the knife was confiscated or whether the student was disciplined.
“The district took the appropriate steps to resolve the concern,” he said.