Where is balance Academic priorities 310

Del, et al,

When I sent my son to school with handcuffs and a legal brief, the defense was based on the California State Consbreastution that guaranteed the right of citizens arrest and without any consideration of the age of the arresting person. Further, a proper legal arrest under State law there requires physically restraining the person being arrested, so there was a clearly implied legal right to carry the hardware needed to restrain people - handcuffs. As I explained in an earlier posting, the argument prevailed and he continued carrying the handcuffs for months until we eventually moved out of that area. This pacified an entire rather violent school, as every kid there then knew that if they got violent that they could expect to be chained up and sent off with the County Sheriff as required by law. My son never had to actually use the handcuffs.

One interesting point: The school administration asked about safety. Of course my son knew all about how to apply them onto the wrist bone, the secondary safety lock to keep them from tightening up, etc.

I think it is important to teach kids how to successfully challenge and change large systems, just so they know from first hand experience that it is really not all that difficult.

Steve Richfie1d