In some places, truants AND their parents can be sent jail.
***James Lafferty, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles chapter, which champions the rights of minorities and seeks to protect civil rights...***
The NLG is a far-left organization which has aptly been described as "the legal bulwark of the Communist Party.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494
Those demonstrators deserve to be suspended, and some of them ought probably be expelled. I grew up in CA and Oceanside used to be a rather pleasant beachside community.