Gun off Campus gets student kicked out of school

[Oldgringo]

Thinking back to my high school days . . . we didn't have a student parking lot, so we parked on the street.

Back in my day, there wasn't a student parking lot either. We walked to school or rode the bus. Dad took the only family vehicle to work and Mom stayed at home and maintained the house and family. Boy Howdy, how our lives have improved!

[MoJo]

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This is wrong. The KGB and Gestapo are alive and well in the PRK.

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WILLOWS, CA - A 17-year-old Willows student will have the National Rifle Association behind him when he appeals his expulsion from school for having a shotgun in his pick-up truck.

Like many youngsters his age, Gary Tudesko likes to hunt. "I hunt ducks, geese, all types of waterfowl," said Tudesko.

But last October, his recreational pursuits landed him in trouble at Willows High School.

"I went hunting before school, me and my friend, and I didn't want to be late so I parked off campus at my school," Tudesko said.

Tudesko was in class when he was called to the principal's office. He soon learned why.

"They brought in a private sniffing dog and it alerted on my truck and they found the guns," Tudesko said. The weapons belonged to Tudesko and his friend.

Claiming he was a danger to himself and other students, Tudesko was suspended and eventually handed a year-long expulsion.

His mother, Susan Parisio, said, "What happened to him wasn't right," Tudesko's mother Susan Parisio said.

Parisio said it's an important distinction that her son's truck was parked on a public street. "I asked the police and the district attorney's office if he did anything wrong and they said no," Parisio said.

However, school officials disagreed. They told Parisio state law gives them "the right to search any of the student's vehicles no matter where they're parked or what they're doing during school hours," she said.

The NRA came to Tudesko's aid, saying school officials are misinterpreting the law. An NRA lawyer plans to be by Tudesko's side when he appeals his expulsion Tuesday at the Glenn County Office of Education at 10 a.m.

Tudesko said he's eager to return to Willows High and graduate on time with his class.

"I'm thinking about going into to some type of law enforcement," Tudesko said.

By Karen Massie, kmassie@news10.net
News10/KXTV
Copyright 2009 / All Rights Reserved

[C-dub]

Let me see if I understand this correctly. The kid did do something wrong, but the school had no authority to search his truck. Is that it? As the school district has incorrectly applied the law I think what they are saying is that even if I took the bus to school they think they have the right to search my truck, which is at my house, because it is during school hours. I think the school is going to loose big time and the kid should go completely free if they have to throw out the illegal search. If they don't completely throw it out the kid could still be in some trouble.

[C-dub]

I wonder what made the school want to search his truck in the first place.

[Oldgringo]

I wonder what made the school want to search his truck in the first place.

Yepper, "loose lips sink ships"... or something like that.

[wgoforth]

I wonder what made the school want to search his truck in the first place.

Yepper, "loose lips sink ships"... or something like that.

No, nothing like that. That particular day, there was a security company at the school trying to get the school to hire them. Not being able to find anything in the school building, they decided to walk their dogs along the perimeter of the school on the public sidewalk. The dogs hit on his truck. The plates were phoned in and found to be a student at the school. Security tells principal, principal asks student. Claim is that it was within the 1,000 feet of the school and thus in a no-gun zone.

[Oldgringo]

I wonder what made the school want to search his truck in the first place.

Yepper, "loose lips sink ships"... or something like that.

No, nothing like that. That particular day, there was a security company at the school trying to get the school to hire them. Not being able to find anything in the school building, they decided to walk their dogs along the perimeter of the school on the public sidewalk. The dogs hit on his truck. The plates were phoned in and found to be a student at the school. Security tells principal, principal asks student. Claim is that it was within the 1,000 feet of the school and thus in a no-gun zone.

What is this "illegal search thing" that I hear about so often on TV?

[wgoforth]

I wonder what made the school want to search his truck in the first place.

Yepper, "loose lips sink ships"... or something like that.

No, nothing like that. That particular day, there was a security company at the school trying to get the school to hire them. Not being able to find anything in the school building, they decided to walk their dogs along the perimeter of the school on the public sidewalk. The dogs hit on his truck. The plates were phoned in and found to be a student at the school. Security tells principal, principal asks student. Claim is that it was within the 1,000 feet of the school and thus in a no-gun zone.

What is this "illegal search thing" that I hear about so often on TV?

As I understood it, the principal called him to the office and asked if he had one in his truck. Had he been older and wiser, he probably should have said "nunya." But, I'm sure he didn't think he had anything to worry about being on the street. They have had attorneys from the NRA's legal dept discussing it for weeks on NRA's radio program on Sirrius Patriot Radio. They also said this was not a case of it being a model student as well, whatever that means.