Re: study of red****rting (late entrance to kndergarten)

In article <g6di71$43qa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 hrubin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Herman Rubin) wrote:

> >> Sometimes school privileges are granted based on honors status, like
being 
> >> able to leave campus for lunch, but I think those are getting rarer.
> 
> >I wonder how that works from a legal perspective?  Our schools are
legally 
> >considered in loco parentis, and having students wandering the streets 
> >doesn't seem very consistent with that.
> 
> Why not?  Some children are permitted to do so by their
> parents.  There is no prohibition of this after school
> lets out, so why should there be at other times during
> the day.

I suppose it depends on the age of the child -- when do these honours 
privileges set in?

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