Legally, Does My Child Have Rights?

[huntingvet]

I've gotta side with Fabs on this one. Maybe its just out here in CA but the school system is swayed so heavily toward the rights of the individual student and away from the good of the whole student body.

My neighbor is a retired LA County Sheriff Deputy after having worked 20+ years in the county jail system. He now works part time as a substitute teacher. He intentially only works in less desirable neighborhoods because he believes he can offer more help to kids there. However, one day he got in trouble when he escorted a kid out of the classroom by holding his arm (I'm sure firmly) after the kid spit in his face. He chooses not to work for that district anymore.

Everyone is arguing to either put ourselves in the kids' shoes or the the shoes of the kid that lost his watch. Has anyone considered the school's or the security guard's? What would you do? What if the kid that lost the watch is one of the meekish, shyest kids that comes to you and says he lost his watch he inherited from his recently deceased grandpa? Not knowing its fair market value he brought it to school to show a friend or even a teacher. Would you want to keep all the kids in that room there to ask them to empty their pockets, gym bags and open their lockers? I don't want to call your kid a liar but couldn't a situation like that get misreported to a concerned parent as their kid was frisked, yelled at and accused?

Now I know the watch wasn't that sentimental but does it have to be?