[SCA-AE] New A&S Policy at Pennsic

[Thomas Ireland-Delfs]

I think you got Margaret's example wrong.  Schools, esp public schools in urban areas, often do require that anyone not ordinarily expected to be present must show a driver's license to gain entrance. (students, teachers, staff are the only ones ordinarily expected & they have school id's that they can be required to present)  I've had to do this countless times when I was working as a salesman.  Children not enrolled in the school are generally not welcome in the classes at the school.  This is not depriving anyone of a constitutional or legal right.

And, as Pennsic is, on its face, a private activity, then no one is "entitled" to attend classes there, just as no one is entitled to attend classes at a private school.

That being said, the notion of "carding" people attending one of my classes is reprehensible and, so long as this rule remains in effect, I won't be teaching at Pennsic.

Fridrikr

On Jul 6, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Khristian Pyke wrote:

> well to be completely accurate the law is any person over the age of 18 in the united states must carry photo id this is state law (all 50)  and part of the patriot act. and yes a bartender (or cigarette vendor) is required by law to ask for your id but i would love to be the lawyer who landed the case of an educator or the employee of an educator denying a person especially a child their constitutionally granted right to an education (though this only technically applies at pensic)  
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