Walk It Through: The Angry Teenager
A threat in a group chat, a keyed car, the parents' bill, and missed school.
After a fight at school, a student posts in a group chat that he will bring something to school and make people pay.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One student. Juvenile court, a school's discipline process and expulsion hearings are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Jointly and severally liableLiable together and each for the whole. Parents are jointly and severally liable for the willful and intentional property destruction and personal injury their minor children cause.
- ChargeA written charge under oath filed with the Equal Opportunity Commission within three hundred days after the practice.
- Mandatory attendance ageThe ages a child must attend school: from reaching six years of age before January 1 of the school year until reaching eighteen years of age.