CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee high school senior might miss graduation after school officials put him through the ringer for unknowingly transporting a fishing knife to school in his father’s vehicle.

Northeast High School student David Duren-Sanner is facing criminal charges for bringing a dangerous weapon to school after officials found a fishing knife in his father’s car, which the student drove to school, the Daily Caller reports.

Duren-Sanner’s father is a commercial fisherman who works on the west coast and left his vehicle for his son to drive to school.

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Last Thursday, school officials announced a “random lockdown search” and randomly selected the vehicle to be part of it, according to a report from WTVF.

“I was like, ‘Sure, no problem.’ I don’t have anything to hide,” Duren-Sanner said. “And he said, ‘Do you have anything that we might need to know about?’”

The student told officials they may find his father’s chewing tobacco in the vehicle.

School officials searched the car and found a fishing knife with a blade over three inches long, which they consider a dangerous weapon. The student was then suspended for 10 days and charged with a criminal offense for possessing the knife, according to the Daily Caller.

After the 10-day suspension is up, school officials will also require the 3.0 student to attend an alternative school for three months before he can return to Northeast High, the news site reports.

“Peggy Duren, Duren-Sanner’s grandmother, said she tried to tell school officials that her grandson did not own the fishing knife. However, the tough vice principal was having none of it,” the Daily Caller reports.

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“He doesn’t deserve that,” Duren said. “It breaks my heart that this is happening to kids,” she told WTVF.

While school security is a very serious matter, especially considering the nation’s ugly record of school shootings, there must be room in these types of cases to make reasonable decisions based on the circumstances.

The district undoubtedly uses a zero tolerance policy to crack down on dangerous or violent behavior, but Duren-Sanner is clearly not a troublemaker.

His grandmother told WTVF he’s involved in the district’s ROTC program and is working to gain a scholarship to college, but worries the district’s overreaction could set her grandson back.

Duren-Sanner is expected to appeal his suspension, but if he loses he won’t be able to attend prom or graduate with his classmates.

Hopefully, district officials will realize their zero-tolerance policy isn’t perfect, and could potentially lead to serious and undeserved consequences for this otherwise good student.