[Mamzelle]

re: Does anyone know where this originated from? )))

I have taught. This possibility has been toyed with before--at least in the minds of teachers with dangerous students and an indifferent admin bureaucracy.

The targets of the suit should be the students and parents, though--suing the school system just dumps on innocent taxpayers.

If a student can be tried as an adult in criminal cases, why not in civil? And upon a defaulted monetary judgement, perhaps an injunction against attending class be enforced instead. Expulsion by lawsuit...?

Incompetent parents regard the school system as a holding tank for their little thugs. Kick the punks out. What's so hard about this?

Students sure don't hesitate to sue the teachers. Turn it around.

[kancel]

>>Incompetent parents regard the school system as a holding tank for their little thugs. Kick the punks out. What's so hard about this?<<

I agree with you but I see a potential problem. After their Johnny gets kicked out of school he goes and knocks over a liquor store. He gets busted. Having his future ruined, the parents turn around and sue little Johnny's teachers/school/district/city/state government for keeping him from getting an education and having to knock over liquor stores.

Stranger things have happened.