I think the street immediately adjacent to the school might be considered reasonable.
It’s one of the things that makes you go “huh” when voting for a school levy.
After enough irate parents came in screaming about broken eyeglasses and facial injuries, the schools probably thought it wise to prohibit snowball fights.
+1. Also, bullies were hiding rocks under thin layers of snow in those snowballs, doing some pretty bad damage, and if confronted simply said that they were having a jolly, child-like snowball fight, and golly gosh darn, there must have been a rock in that snow.
Faced with that, government bureaucrats did the only thing they know how to do: Respond with far reaching consequences.
The expulsion has been overturned.
*In overturning the teen’s expulsion, county Board of Education members cited a state statute that requires a principal to recommend expulsion if a student possesses firearms “at school.”
The board found Tudesko had not possessed the shotguns “on school grounds.”
They also said Tudesko did not receive a fair expulsion hearing in November because he wasn’t given adequate notice that two dozen prior disciplinary incidents would be presented as evidence against him, and he didn’t have a chance to respond.*
Yep!!
I busted two of my school’s students playing in the drive-thru lane at a McDonalds a half-mile away after school. It was upheld because in California, the school has a responsibility keeping students safe from the moment they leave their front door to the moment they get home. Sounds extreme I know, but it also allows teachers to break up fights across the street from the school (did that too once)