[Leaning Right]

You do make a point. As I noted in a previous post, I'm an inner city school teacher. And I've seen school security and school police do some pretty iffy things, constitutionally, over the years.

So there is some reason to support the "police state" theory of yours. But it's important to note that a school is not like a public park or a sidewalk! One's rights are necessarily more limited in any school, just as your rights are more limited when you're in the army or at work.

From my perspective, the real danger here is that we are "teaching" students that it is OK to have no respect for reasonable, agreed-upon rules. That lesson will surely stay with them in later on in life.

[defconw]

I agree. it is all part of the plan. The government is trying to take the kids away from the parents. What better way to do that? First you have Children's Social Service called on the parent if they do try to discipline a child. Then force the majority of parents to have to rely on government schools, then use the force of law to brutalize the worst behaving students thereby intimidating the more well behaved kids, so they will learn to be good little automatons and do exactly as big brother tells them. It takes a village, was a threat.