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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 509403" data-attributes="member: 4981">IANAL but I am a gaming activist and I am someone who took on the school, when I was a teenager, and won.From what I see you have got three opitons:a) Suck it up and play at home on the weekends. I think you've pretty much decided against this one.b) Go the subversive route and play some historical RPG to start so you can call it educationall then work in D&D. I do not recommend this because you could very well wind up on the wrong end of an expulsion case, and they would have all the legal ground they needed to pull it off.c) Fight her. If you want to do this I have some information and suggestions below that can help.1) Find teachers that role-play. I suggest getting a couple of IRPG bumper stickers and labeling your books with them. The teachers will then find you.2) Find some parents that role-play. I suggest putting up flyers in your local game store explaining your plight in calm reasonable language. Then give them your phone number or email address where they can contact you.3) Get all the information you can to back up your case. Make sure it is well-founded and not just opinion. (the only opinion piece I would have in my research is this one <a href="http://members.aol.com/MarkJYoung/confess.html" target="_blank">http://members.aol.com/MarkJYoung/confess.html</a>) However if you use that piece spend some time on his site and figure out why I told you to have that one. 4) Contact your local gaming activist organization. <a href="http://www.theescapist.com/advocacy.htm" target="_blank">http://www.theescapist.com/advocacy.htm</a> is a good place to start.5) Locate a lawyer in your area who specializes in fighting the school district, it is best if he used to be a teacher and got his law degree just to fight the school district (as was my case) but anyone who can make them squirm should be good enough.6) Research obscure local laws, I can almost garentee that there is some sort of discrimination code she is breaking.Okay now that you've got all that here is what you do with it.1) Take your research to her immediate supervisor. If that works you are done but watch yourself cause you can bet that she will be.2) Gather the teachers and parents that you have gotten on your side and take the PTA to the school board (99% chance this one will work and will probably get her reprimanded and possibly removed from duty)3) Grab your local gaming activist organization and your lawyer and go for the throat. But do it in that order and stop as soon as you succeed.some advice, stay cool and stay calm. Do not give them anything ANYTHING by way of your behavior that could possibly be used as ammunition against you.</blockquote>

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