I am a huge Fox News fan, and watched this young man on the news, and was thinking what the h*** is the school district thinking, isn't this the type of young man you want to represent your town and country. Here is the article.

"The upstate New York school superintendent who suspended an Eagle Scout for 20 days for keeping a 2-inch utility knife locked in his car is unwilling to speak to the teen's family or bend in his ruling.

Lansingburgh Central School District Superintendent George J. Goodwin, 55, said in a written statement that his district "has an established policy of zero tolerance with respect to the possession of weapons of any kind on school property or in school buildings."

But nowhere in the school district's rule book, which is published online, is there any mention of a "zero tolerance" policy, leading some to question whether Goodwin, in fact, was compelled to suspend the youth.

Seventeen-year-old Matthew Whalen, a senior at Lansingburgh High School in Troy, N.Y., says he got in trouble over a survival kit he keeps in his car that includes a sleeping bag, water, a ready-to-eat meal and the small pocketknife, which was given to him by his grandfather, a police chief in a nearby town."

My heart goes out to Matthew Whalen, I saw him on the intereview he looked uncomfortable and visibly upset that his dream career might be dashed by this incident. Here is a respectful young man who wasn't causing any problem just being prepared isn't that what the military trains?