1. How California schools are partners with police, not with parents:

• Police officers can come onto a school campus without permission

• Police are free to interrogate students on campus if they are suspected of committing or being witness to a crime

• School officials cannot demand to be present when a student is interviewed.

• Police are not required to obtain parental permission to conduct such interrogations

• Police do not have to obtain parental permission to remove the student from school.

• Only students who are victims of child abuse have the right to request that a school staff member be present during an interrogation

• Many schools have crime prevention and crime intervention programs

These policies have been evolving since the late 60s. The rationale for all of these repressive measures, of course, is that they are "essential" to maintaining safe campuses.