Today (well at time of writing 22/5/08), I was walking with a group home during a flex off period, and we came across a sports class that conducts scenic walking as a sport. The teacher stopped us like he was a police officer in authority (personally I was going to keep on walking, as I thought it was a joke and if it wasn’t it’s out his rights to stop us. But nearly everyone else in the group stopped so I thought I would conform) and got use to show ID, so he could determine if we were in Grade 12 (The only grade that can get variation at the time). Now as far as I know, we had been let out of school and weren’t under the control of the school and teachers have no right to stop students. If we were waging we would be placed in the brilliant absent system and so on so forth.

Should teachers be able to stop students and check if they should be in school? I think not, your thoughts would be appreciated.