TR>Here you would be talking about the courts, not the entities in the 
example.
  >I know that you aren't hinting that parents are bound by this, and you 
didn'
  >address the other example, a school administrative punishment. You would 
e
  >talking strictly about the courts and punishment dealt by the courts, not
  >other entities. Double jeopardy for this discussion is the wrong tag 
anyway.

If your discussion was limited , GENERALLY, to school administrative
punishment you are probably correct.  However, I do believe that in
certain cases depending on the nature of the incident, the type and
severeity of the school punishment it could be a bar to further 
punishment in a court of law if charges were later filed over the same
incident in a regular criminal prosecution.  Now I didn't research 
this, so that opinion and a quarter will let you make a phone call most
anywhere in Oklahoma, Tom. 
CHARLES HUNTER
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