This Teen's Life
When Discipline Goes Overboard
Schools need to understand when it is okay to bend the rules
Over spring break, a trespasser installed a series of electrical equipment on my back patio while I was at work. Nobody overreacted and called the police. No consequences ensued. The trespasser was my boyfriend. The electrical equipment was “Prom?” spelled out with Christmas lights. If my home were a school in today’s world, my boyfriend would have been fined for trespassing and posing a safety risk. Suppose it rained? Those outdoor outlets are tricky pieces of work. Needless to say, that hooligan would not have been attending prom. Or at least that would have been the case at James Tate’s school (or really any school, for that matter). The senior was almost banned from prom after he put up cardboard letters on the outside of his high …
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John Farrell
12:01 pm on Saturday, May 21, 2011
You distort my comment. As I stated verbal request to leave is equally as effective as posting, but without one or the other there can be no trespassing. A land owner is certainly free to allow one stranger onto her property and prohibit others but that prohibition must be made known to the prohibited party and not subject to inference. Thus, the use of letters of disinvitation by retailers … more ›