College Park and Title IX, Really?
The University of Maryland, like all other Big Ten schools – along with virtually all colleges and universities in the US – maintains an active and robust Title IX Office for investigation and adjudication...
Category: School Discipline
Students and Family’s Draw Near…
If you have any questions or concerns about your current or future school’s placement, program or treatment and the fast approaching Fall term, summertime is the best time to get it right! Now’s the time...
No Prom 4U2! High School Couple Post Pre-Prom AirRifle Pic's Get Suspended …
When a youg Massachusetts high school couple recently posted their pre-prom photo shoot on FB – all dressed up for their big night and holding realistic looking assault airsoft rifles, instead of that special...
Zero Tolerance Does Not Make Schools Safer: Report
Does zero tolerance achieve its intended effect?
School District With Shocking Record Revises Zero Tolerance Policy
Florida’s Boward County Public Schools had the highest arrest record among districts in the state. Now, it’s following the lead of other school districts around the country and revising its zero tolerance policy. Read...
Round two: MSDE adopts new student discipline regs – finally!
Yesterday, the Maryland State Board Education once again voted to finally abandon the dangerous and long since discredited policy known as Zero Tolerance (ZTP). Marking landmark change in the policy governing student discipline, suspension and...
Maryland passes new cyberbullying law!
Last week, Maryland’s legislature passed a bill prohibiting cyberbullying against minors. Known as “Grace’s Law,” in memory of the 15-year-old victim of cyberbullying who committed suicide in Maryland last year after repeated cyberbullying attacks,...
'Reasonable School Discipline Act' introduced in Maryland
This month, 7-year-old Josh Welch, a second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore was suspended from school for two days after biting his Pop-Tart pastry into the shape of a gun. This event is only...
Zero tolerance: School discipline in the aftermath of Newtown
Sadly, however, some recent cases of student discipline reported in the media reveal an alarming resurgence of zero-tolerance by some school administrators against students who even mention the Newtown massacre during school in any but the most sanitized circumstances.
MSDE decision hammers MCPS for 15-year failure to fire teacher accused of child abuse
The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) recently issued findings affirming MCPS’s long overdue decision to fire its long employed teacher for conduct, which in my opinion, amounts to no less than serial acts of child abuse and significantly inappropriate behaviors with children.