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When Schools Are the Police
First time accepted submitter Is Any Nickname Left writes "The Washington Post has an article on school systems with their own police forces. It focuses on Texas, which has the highest number of 'School Police Departments,' of which there are so many they have their own trade association. Highlights: 1) Houston fourth-grader stood on a stool so he could see the judge. He pleaded guilty. To a scuffle on a school bus. 2) 275,000 juvenile tickets in fiscal 2009, to students as young as 5. 3) Austin middle school student ticketed after she sprayed herself with perfume when classmates said she smelled. 4) a 17-year-old was in court after he and his girlfriend poured milk on each other. 'She was mad at me because I broke up with her,' he said. I waiting for the Alamo Heights Special Airborne Brigade and SEAL TEAM CROCKETT."
Comin' straight from da playground
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
And this is why you NEED Rick Perry as President!
That is all.
So cavity searches and rendition are powers "taken away from the schools"? I have some bad news for you. When your 4th grade gym teacher "disappeared" you to his house and cavity searched you, that wasn't a school sanctioned punishment. You might want to get in touch with a lawyer.
"...and yet all I found was a tootsie roll and some Chiclets."
Sounds like you consider him to be acute kid.