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To: Nachum

I’ve given these two stories of the lunch nazis some thought on how I would react if I was the parent. While it would cost me some time and money, it would put the school on notice (legal notice) and save me time and trouble in the future. I would:

Take a lawyer, preferably a civil rights specialist, to the school with me to meet with the superintendent or principal. I would hand them a written notice (legal notice) that if they tried to inspect or interfere with my child’s lunch that I provided the child, they would have charges filed against them and the school district would be taken to court for civil rights violations, privacy violations and any other that the lawyer could think up to put in the legal notice.

I would have the lawyer explain to the administrator just what “being put on legal notice” means and what the possible consequences would be if they took any action or discriminated against my child in any conceivable way, or violated any privacy, imagined or otherwise. I’d have the lawyer list the costs of legal litigation expenses and let him point out that the school officials would be named “personally and individually” in addition to their being named in their “official” positions. He could point out that this may require that the school officials may need to obtain (and pay for) the services of a attorney, separate from the school district’s legal representation.

I would have the attorney hand them the citations of federal law regarding deprivation of rights under color of law and advise them that charges would be filed both under those federal statutes and any state statutes that might apply.

Then I’d have the attorney give them statements to sign acknowledging that they had been provided all of this and that they fully understood the legal jeopardy that they were in if they should cause any further problem with my child.

They could explain anything they wanted, but only after they had been given the notices and signed the statements. If they refused to accept them, then the lawyer would point out that he has legally witnessed their being advised and given the notices so the “legal notification” still applies.

Then I’d thank them for their time and leave with the lawyer. Preferably, we would record the whole thing also.

Once they had cleaned up their underwear, I suspect that they would leave my kid alone and hope they didn’t see me back at the school ever again.

Believe me, I’ve done things like this and it works wonders with government a##holes who think their’s doesn’t stink. Once they find that they can be **personally** sued and will have to shoulder the cost of their personal legal representation, most will realize that discretion is the better part of valor and my kid’s lunches would be the last thing they’d want anybody to touch.

Walking into a meeting with a good, aggressive attorney and taking control away from them that they usually have works wonders.

If I knew a cop or sheriff who’d help us just by accompanying us to make sure no physical threats were made against us, I have them there also.

Much future time, money and effort would be saved with one little legal tete ‘a tete with the right attitude adjustment. But most people are too scared of the “authorities” and think that a phone call or an email will do something. Nothing but a full on, aggressive legal game will do it. Going alone to meet or complain is useless as there is no witnesses on your side.

It’s nice if you can get a local newspaper or teevee reporter to go along with you too. Even more effective is if they school officials don’t know that it is a reporter who’s with you. Amazing what happens when afterward the reporter goes and asks the officials for a public statement on the meeting. Bullying officials will crap their drawers when they find out they’ve acted nastily in front of the reporter.


29 posted on 02/17/2012 6:25:08 PM PST by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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To: hadit2here

Great post! Parents need to wake up and take a look around, but now that the government has implemented so many programs to “help” families, both parents have to work to pay for all of the nonsense.
The other thing that parents need to do is go to school at the end of each year and demand a review of each of their children’s permanent records. We found one year that a nutball teacher had trashed our son. The good news is that the principal knew this woman was a disgrace ( but thanks to the union he could not get rid of her) so he gave us a pair of scissiors and let us cut out everything that we found inaccurate or offensive.


39 posted on 02/17/2012 8:08:44 PM PST by vette6387
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To: hadit2here

Great post. I especially like the “personal liability” angle. If the family doesn’t have enough money to pull this off, the parents whose children get harassed can pool their resources and randomly pick one family to hire a lawyer.

Sometimes, people only “understand” things if they get hit in the wallet area.


41 posted on 02/17/2012 9:08:54 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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