Student expelled for having unloaded shotguns in truck

More specifically… for having legal,  unloaded shotguns in  a truck off school property.

From ChicoER.com:

The Willows Unified School District board of trustees has expelled a 16-year-old for having unloaded shotguns in his pickup parked just off the Willows High School campus.
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Susan Parisio defended her son during the 105-minute public hearing at Willows Civic Center. She acknowledged that Tudesko was lazy for not storing the shotguns at home after a morning of bird hunting, but she questioned the district’s ability to enforce its policies off Willows High School property.

“My son was not even parked on school property,” Parisio said.

Willows High Principal Mort Geivett and other district officials did not appear to dispute that the parking space was off school property, but they cited several justifications. One of them was the legal doctrine of in loco parentis – where school officials may act in place of a parent for school functions.

<>I sympathize with the kid… I’ve been there. Years ago I lost a crappy job because on a weekend when I wasn’t working I went target shooting on private property that allowed such target shooting. But since that property was near the property being rented by my employer, and because my employer was a paranoid nutjob (on the other side of the planet at the time, to boot), he decided that I was a danger. Pity I didn’t tell him that a co-worker kept a revolver in his desk, and another kept a Walther in his shorts. No, we weren’t paranoid gun nuts… we were Coloradans. Hell, the ground around the worksite was littered with 12 guage shells, AK-47 and M-16 brass.
Anyway, this school board needs to be fired. The kid was violating no laws and no rules.