17-year-old goes hunting before school. Doesn’t want to be late, so he leaves his shotguns in the car and parks off campus. Still gets expelled from school “claiming he was a danger to himself and other students.” Story here.
[Susan] Parisio said it’s an important distinction that her son’s truck was parked on a public street. “I asked the police and the district attorney’s office if he did anything wrong and they said no,” Parisio said.
However, school officials disagreed. They told Parisio state law gives them “the right to search any of the student’s vehicles no matter where they’re parked or what they’re doing during school hours,” she said.
Yet another reason I don’t care for government schools: how they make you leave your Constitutional rights at the door.
Updated: More detailed legal information here.
Stuff From Hsoi 
If the school is responsible for the on the way to and from school…does that the school is responsible from what the kids have in their bedroom?
Their garage?
This is utter garbage, just another case of trying to enforce a mentality of subservience on kids. Don’t think, we’ll tell you what test questions to answer. Don’t think, we will tell you about global climate change. Don’t think we will tell you how your parents are being greedy by not wanting to be have 3/4ths of their income taken in taxes.
Told my wife what one of us will have to retire early so we can home school the grand kids when they get here.
It’s just a logical consequence of zero-tolerance policies… which are all about not thinking. I remember in school learning about “critical thinking” skills. I guess that’s passé now.
I do understand a need to tell children what to do, because they do not know any better. But gradually you must change that. A 2 year old pretty much has to be told what to do. A 12 year old should be able to make some decisions for themselves.
The horrible part of how things are today is kids are going to get to the point where when they are to be the ones in charge, they will have no idea how to be. They won’t know how to make a decision, they won’t know how to survive. It’s going to be an ugly world to get by in.
I applaud you if you’d be able to home school your grandkids. Even if you can’t, you can still spend as much time with them as possible and teach them all that you can… maybe not about ABC’s and 123’s, but about life.
I have gotten my kids in so much trouble at school because we discuss their ‘lessons’ and then they go back and respond to their teachers.
My oldest son loves to debate — and he is very good– so when we encountered global warming issues or health care those topics were good for a couple of hours of talk at home. Of course, I think the district passed him just to get him out of the system 🙂
According to one of his other class mates, my oldest son nearly had teacher pulling out her hair when it came to the Bill of Rights. I felt really proud that day.
Sounds like you’re raising them right.