Woman arrested for disagreeing with principal

If there's one place where no adult is allowed to enjoy the right to disagree with somebody in power, it's America's corporatist slaughterhouse schools.

A New Jersey woman has learned this the hard way after confronting her daughter's middle school principal about the school's refusal to deal with an apparent pattern of student harassment. This visit was prompted by an incident in which a male student yanked her daughter's pants down in front of schoolmates.

When the school stonewalled, the parent quite rightly told the principal what she thought.

The result? A disorderly conduct charge against her.

But hey, bogus charges like this are nothing new under Kentucky law. Kentucky pioneered the right-wing trend of criminalizing dissent against school administrators. But this story happened in New Jersey.

After a 13-year-old was assaulted by a schoolmate, you'd think the school would have more decency than to try to have the victim's mother thrown in jail just for confronting the school.

But America's schools are run by an impenetrably smug right-wing elite that no law controls. In the eyes of the law, they are never wrong.