Category: School Discipline

FCPS’s antiquated system of hearings, decisions, appeals and reviews have brought significant damage to the academic standing and the personal/social development of great numbers of high school teens

Your kid did well in high school, made it into a good college and just about the time you begin to see the end of the twice yearly tuition drain you get word the university is kicking him out.

You’re on the path to your future. You’ve just finished your undergraduate degree and are studying at one of your top choice graduate schools. Everything seems to be within reach, when get into a squabble with one of your professors over a grade. He quotes from the university code and all of a sudden you are on academic dismissal with no way to defend yourself.

The New York Times told this story, the story of parents so upset by the disciplinary findings of their son’s school, that they filed suit.

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