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chasfm11 wrote:I've seen some very interesting responses to those who are openly critical of the schools and our judicial system. We'll see how this thread goes from here.

Personally, the principal is entitled to his or her paranoia over guns. They can do that privately all they want. What set me off on this one is using the power of the school and/or the judiciary (verdict is still out on that) to amplify that paranoia. I'm sick of "but he/she was just protecting the school."

For me, this is in the same vain as the New York newspaper publishing the addresses of gun license holders "to protect the public." If we have any hope of expanding gun rights, we have to start finding a way to confront these situations as they happen.

chasfm11 wrote:OK. My flame suit is on.

I do not fault the principal. Yes, the principal is a jerk. But this was a no trespass order issued for a public building...by whom? For what? I do appreciate that Georgia may have different laws but it is my understanding that in order to get even a restraining order, evidence of a threat must be presented to a judge. The judge involved should be asking some questions:

1. What is the school doing snooping on the Facebook pages of its parents? A valid explanation had better follow.
2. Was there any evidence of a threat and if so, specifically what was it? If the only evidence available is the picture of the CCW, the judge is a far bigger jerk than the principal and a judicial review needs to be held immediately. At a minimum, the judge needs a counseling session. I'd be included to request removal. There is no way on this green earth that a State issued identification, by itself, represents anything bad. Any judicial official who believes it does needs to have served their last day in that capacity.

Our educational system is rife with principals who believe that the schools are their own private fiefdoms and that somehow their unelected position gives them power of the community that they serve. I've personally dealt with too many of those types and I have absolutely no time for them. But they can only have the powers that officials from other branches of government grant to them. If the principal presented his or her incipient, unfounded fears of a concealed license a judge, the judge should have chewed him or her out and called the superintendent. How dare the school system attempt to trample on the rights of a parent to pick up their kid from school without cause

We, the people, need to start taking back our educational system. If stuff like this is allowed to ride, we are assuring that other things that go on inside the school will be even worse.

You don't even want to know what I think if it was LE on their own that allowed this to principal's order to stand without a judge.

If there were threats or attempts at intimidation by the parent, that resets everything. I can go off just a quickly on someone who threatens the school or its officials. I get it that posting a picture of the CCW on Facebook wasn't the smartest thing to do. I won't have done that. But it is also not a crime or a hint of another crime.