Reply #22: A good time to start learning

[Heathen57]

about how the system works, and how to assert what few rights the students have.

Our son who has ADHD was labeled a troublemaker early on and the school targeted him for anything that went wrong.

After Columbine, it became worse since he wore black to school. Every random search of the student body included him and his friends.

One day he had enough. The next time he was pulled in and the principal brought in the police to search him for a $4.00 tupperware bowl, he pulled out a notebook that contained every case the ACLU has ever filed for student rights. As he started to flip through looking for a certain case doing with unreasonable searches, the cop stepped back and declared he would not take part in the whole thing.

He carried that notebook every day until he reached the age of 16 and could take his GED.