Curriculum
Life & Law
How the law shows up in a school week: discipline, searches, police contact, work, records, and online life. Plus a short desk for your state. This is civic education.
Detention, suspension, expulsion
School discipline
What notice and a chance to speak usually look like at a public school.
Searches at school
Phones, lockers, and backpacks
Reasonable suspicion is the usual school standard — not a street warrant.
Stops, questions, silence
Police and school resource officers
Am I free to leave, and when does silence apply.
Petition, hearing, counsel
Juvenile court, at a high level
A youth case is a court case. It is not a TV episode.
What follows you
School files and other records
Discipline notes, transcripts, and juvenile files are different stacks.
Hours, pay, permits
Work for teens
Youth labor rules limit hours and dangerous jobs. Pay still has to be paid.
Family homes, not street lawyering
Home and housing
Most teens live in someone else’s legal household. Process still exists.
School, apps, and the government
Online life and screenshots
The First Amendment binds government, not every group chat.
Branches and levels
How government is built
A principal is not a court. A city is not Congress.
Statutes, holdings, handbooks
How to read a rule
Find the actor, the words, the exception, and the date.
State desk
Your state
Federal cases sit next to your state statute and local handbook. Still education, not local counsel.