Defending her practice to allow her son to take the subway along, the author argues abductions are about as common as they have been for decades. The chance of a child being abducted are less likely than falling off a bed or other furniture.

Before this book or this post inspires someone to run off to take the subway alone, bear in mind that abductions may be less likely because parents usually ride with their children on the subway. If every kid rode the subway alone, there might be more abductions.

As for teenagers, many already ride the subway alone and should have the freedom to leave campus during the lunch, use a cellphone at school, and many other fundamental actions unnecessarily restricted by busy-body voters and their politicians.

I can’t wait for the sequel to the book, perhaps it will be called Free Range Teenagers or let’s call it Emancipated Teenagers. Write the first chapter with some elbow grease: launch a campaign to repeal a restrictive local law or school regulation.

Read the Free Range Kids’ author’s book and blog.

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Fortunately, the school did not stop students from exercising their free speech rights. However, those who skipped class may face three-day in school suspensions. The police showed up during the protest and forbid students from leaving the campus. The police even tackled and cuffed one student who tried to leave.

The Kingston school district is one of only three in New York state that actually allows students to leave during lunch. Students in the other 54 school districts show up for prison each day, can’t leave for another six hours, and must eat cafeteria food.

According to some students, the school’s cafeteria can’t even accommodate all the students, and that’s the main reason they let students leave campus during lunch. Already some students must eat lunch at 10:30 a.m. – a time for snacks in the real world. One student suggested a better protest would have been for all students to show up at the cafeteria during their assigned lunch periods to prove the cafeteria is too small. However, this would have placed the focus on the cafeteria size, not the basic freedom to leave school when not in class. The students don’t want a larger cafeteria; they want to go out for lunch.

Junior Kyle Russo said leaving campus refreshes him. Uh oh! The administrators can’t have refreshed students. Must keep students one heart beat above a coma to make them more susceptible to government propaganda!

Since offense if the best defense, the students could also try to roll back the restriction on freshman and sophomores. This will force administrators to DEFEND the existing restriction, instead of applying the restriction to juniors and seniors.

Take action:

• Read the original article and post a comment in defense of people’s right to leave school when not in class!
• If you are allowed to leave campus during lunch, do it. Exercise your limited freedoms before school dictators take them away.
• Stage a protest against your school’s closed campus! But don’t skip class!
• Share this article with a friend

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The Delaware school’s lawyer warned that the Constitution might prevent the school prescribing a punishment based on the results of random drug tests. Therefore, to avoid lawsuits, students who fail the breath test will be barred from the prom but they will not face a suspension.

Breath tests are the latest reason why you and your friends should boycott and protest your government school’s prom by planning and attending a private prom. The prom would take place at a private hotel that would not administer breath tests. The private prom would also get rid of the teachers and administrators who are more concerned with the smell of your breath than with the party.

Government school proms are like the final slap in the face to high school students. After four years of enduring no-smoking rules, closed campuses, and unresponsive government teachers, students must then celebrate the end of their prison sentence with their captors.

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Schools will more vigorously enforce existing policies that will never deter unhappy, armed assailants. They will outlaw backpacks, camouflage pants, trenchcoats, pocketknives, and even bomb-making books. They will install metal detectors, hire a few more armed security guards, and probably forbid students from entering or leaving campus during school hours.

These totalitarian policies will turn regular, law-abiding students into prisoners but will not protect them from armed assailants with bombs and guns. The only way to protect students is to allow them to protect themselves. When faced with assailants throwing pipe bombs and grenades, an armed student population would not be hiding under cafeteria tables. They would be firing back.

The threat of being shot in a cafeteria gun battle would also decrease the possibility for more massacres. Dark, brooding groups like the trenchcoat Mafia would think twice before entering a school filled with armed students and teachers. Mafias that aspire for attention or the opportunity to kill fellow students would instead stick to fake bomb threats and false fire alarms.

There is no way to prevent all gun attacks but twenty people should not have died in Colorado. It was a massacre because no one could shoot back. The assailants were like hunters targeting unarmed animals. Consider the impact of an armed deer population upon hunters and you will begin to realize the value of an armed student population.

Many people mistakenly object to guns because they only see the aftermath of gun murders and attacks. They never read about the woman who deterred a rapist by revealing her 9mm or the late-night store clerk who scared off a burglar with a shotguns. Almost all guns are strictly used in a defensive manner.

Still, some people are worried about turning the schools into the Wild West. They state that hundreds of armed students would invite more killing. The opposite is in fact true and the Wild West proved that cities with many gun owners are actually safe. Cities in the Wild West were not worried about violent men in trenchcoats because everyone carried a firearm for protection.

Had the Trenchcoat mafia tried their rampage in the “not-so” Wild West, armed civilians would have quickly killed them. If only that option was available to the more than 20 victims in Littleton, Colorado.

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Following the decision, Congress revised the law to make it constitutional. Now, the federal government is once again trying to use the law to prosecute a student in San Antonio, Texas who brought a handgun to school. This case will probably also go before the Supreme Court in order to test the constitutionality of the revised law. The student faces up to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will strike down the handgun law which makes it more risky for students to protect themselves with a handgun.

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The mere-presence rule is more proof that the government uses its schools to control your life whether you are in school or not. Mere-presence has blurred the line between on campus and off-campus. People who want to drink and smoke are now never off-campus.

Students at keg parties, who used to only worry about their parents, now are more concerned about their new government parents, otherwise known as teachers and principals. Soon your principal may even want you to call him “Dad.”

Many lazy parents may not object to the new policy because it is parental welfare. Parents who receive financial welfare don’t have to work and now parental welfare means they don’t have to raise their kids.

Unfortunately, like financial welfare, parental welfare will become addictive. Why make efforts to raise your children if the government will do it for you?

The government sets a teenager’s curfew, specifies clothing selection with uniform policies, restricts use of the family car with driving restrictions, censors movies with the “R” rating system, and now discourages attendance at keg parties with the new “mere presence rule.” Parents and their children used to make these decisions.

The “mere presence” rule may not be constitutional in your state. In 1972, the Iowa Supreme Court struck down a similar “beer rule” enacted by the Iowa High School Athletic Association. However, according to a Iowa school lawyer, the court, “went on to state that individual school boards or the Iowa Department of Education did have authority over student behavior and could enact such policies.” If your school adopts a “mere presence” rule, then you have the right to sue them for violating your rights

You could also fight back by starting private extracurricular clubs that are not associated with your school. For example, you could start a debating club that is not affiliated with the school. You could start a soccer league, a newspaper, a key club, etc.

Your goal would be to put the government-sponsored clubs “out of business.” Then when your college interviewer asks why you were not part of your school’s soccer team, you could say, “the school cancelled the team a few years due to the popularity of the private league.”

Starting an extracurricular activity is just like starting a business. You write a plan, advertise the benefits of your activity versus the government’s activity, and then manage the activity.

However, unlike like taxpayer-supported government activities, members of your club would have to pay dues or fees. To reduce the costs, you could find advertisers that would sponsor your club. You could have the “Sony” Student Marching Band or the “Nike” Soccer League.

These private extra-curricular activities would make your school’s “mere presence” rule irrelevant.

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