UPDATE: Explusion overturned of student that had hunting rifle in car off-campus

[rd_kent]

Thanks to aikoaiko for finding this.



REASON has prevailed here. Too bad REASON was ignored in the first place.......
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Expulsion of Willows High student with shotguns near campus overturned
[e-mail] http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2481590.html
Published Friday, Jan. 22, 2010

A Willows High School student who was expelled for having firearms in his pickup that was parked near the school will be reinstated and have the disciplinary action expunged from his record.

That ruling was made this morning by the Glenn County Board of Education acting on an appeal filed by Gary Tudesko. The hearing was open to the public at the request of Tudesko's parents.

Board President Judy Holzapfel, reading from a written version of the board's decision, said that in expelling Tudesko, the Willows Unified School District exceeded its jurisdiction based on acts "that did not occur on school grounds or at a school activity off of school grounds."

The Oct. 26 incident occurred a few days after the start of waterfowl hunting season in an area where duck hunting is a major pastime. Tudesko said he was returning from a morning hunt and did not have time to take the shotguns home without being late for school.

[GreenStormCloud]

1. Money and Votes speak loudly.

The NRA and the California Rifle and Pistol Association were involved. It would have been real expensive for the school board to fight a lawsuit.

Further, it would have been expensive in votes. Duck hunting is popular there, and school board officials must answer to the voters. Also, lots of other parents would be justly concerned about what other off-campus events the school may want to claim juristiction over.

The principal is upset that he got overruled. Screw him.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. The student will have a target ]on his back until he graduates

Educrats are like that. Defy them and you are in many ways toast.

[GreenStormCloud]

3. Yep. He's a senior. It is only for a few months.

The flip side is that there was so much media attention on him that if anything is done to him now, even if justified, it will look like petty revenge. The educrats have to walk on eggshells too.

[spin]

11. I think that principal got a lesson on Second Amendment rights.

and the application of commonsense.

[aikoaiko]

4. This really is good news!

Let's hope the little feller keeps his nose clean, studies hard, and graduates to bigger and better things.

[rd_kent]

5. Thanks again for the update. I gave you credit for it!

[aikoaiko]

7. thanks. but no credit is needed, I saw it first on CNNHeadline News.

Even they were enthusiastic about the student's vindication.

So often we never hear about what happens after an appeal.

Zero tolerance policies are idiotic.


eta: And you are correct, this news deserves its own thread.

[rrneck]

6. Thanks for the update. nt

[Pab Sungenis]

8. Then they should have overturned the "Bong Hits for Jesus" ruling, too.

No way is it right that schools are allowed to shred the FIRST Amendment for their students while off grounds, and get blocked from abusing the SECOND, just because five Supreme Court justices only love one of the first ten.

[paulsby]

9. i totally agree

that case was egregious.

kind of like how scalia espouses state's rights etc. EXCEPT with medical mj. all of a sudden, the COMMERCE CLAUSE applies to people growing MJ in their own backyard for their own consumption pursuant to state prescription?

get fucking real

[rd_kent]

10. Agree.

[Euromutt]

13. Well, this was the Glenn Co. Board of Education, not the SCOTUS

Not that I disagree with you. I think the power that schools have accorded themselves (admittedly at the urging of a few too many parents who want the world to be made of Nerf) could stand to be rolled back a considerable distance; at the very least, to the boundaries of school property. Moreover, we could also do with some acknowledgment that minors do have some measure of civil liberties that government institutions--such as public schools--are bound to respect.

[SteveM]

14. Agreed, but the locals "cleaned up" this mess, first (nt)

[proteus_lives]

12. Common sense!

I hope those zero tolerance goons got a good dressing down.