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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
*I'm curious: will everyone here concede that they do? Or will these boards, like the country itself, prefer not to state anything of any real substance on the issue of disciplining a verbal bully until AFTER they know whether their child is the victim or the perpetrator? We're stuck in a Rawlsian hell of everyone saying "do something," particularly after a death.
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While I cannot cite chapter and verse about why schools do (or do not) have jurisdiction over inter-student contact, even outside of school hours and off school property -- I have no idea what level of scrutiny applies to reviews of laws enacted that grant such jurisdiction, or what the common law says, even in my own state, if I were deciding the matter, I would find jurisdiction. However, I would gladly accept that schools should have jurisdiction over inter-student contact under those circumstances, as it speaks to the education of the child as a whole person/citizen, which doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door. As Bnb noted, private schools (I know, I know, different kettle of fish) exert jurisdiction in those circumstances on that basis.
I don't need any veil of ignorance in order to decide that the right thing to do is deny cover or excuses for children (or anyone, really) to degrade the humanity of another person. Why would the fact that my own child is the perpetrator change that choice?
