Facts: Dwight Lopez and eight other students were suspended for 10 days from different public schools in Columbus, Ohio. The eight students were suspended due to alleged accusations of misconduct at school. The law of Ohio says that individual that are ages six through twenty-one are allowed to have a free education. This same law has a code 3313.66 that states that administrators of Ohio public schools can suspend students for misbehaving for up to ten consecutive days. However, the same code also states that principals must contact the parents of the suspended child within 24 hours about the suspension. The parent of the student has a right to file an appeal about the decision and has the right to a board meeting…
School Resource Officer (SRO) Ben Fields uses unnecessary force removing a fourteen year old female student from her seat who was “disrupting class by using a mobile device”. Ben Fields approached the student who was unwilling to move, refusing his orders to get up. Then, grabbing her and slamming her backwards onto the ground in front of all her classmates while one recorded the process on their phone.( Townes, C.).…
This brief is in regards to the Bristol School District and their policies. A seventeen-year old student, Suzie, attended Central High School in Bristol, Virginia. During Suzie’s relationship with her boyfriend, Cyrus, she sent him some very revealing photographs of herself. After their relationship ended, Cyrus forwarded some of the most revealing photos to upper classmen in the school. This began to draw unwanted attention to Suzie. It became such a disruption in the school, Suzie’s parents contacted the school principal, Mrs. Sheevers, and forced her to investigate and appeal the situation thoroughly. Principal Sheevers, then confronted Cyrus, who denied having and sending the photographs. Then Principal Sheevers sent the school’s security officer to find Cyrus’s phone to check it for the photographs. When Cyrus didn’t have his…
Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today we are charging Brandon Trinh with the violation of a weapon on school grounds. On April 21st, School Resource Officer of Great Oak High School, Israel Sosa, made a police report upon an allegation of suspect Brandon Trinh carrying a knife on school campus. Upon further investigation, Brandon admitted to carrying a pocket knife with a 3’’ blade for several months for the sole purpose of intimidation against the bullies in his JROTC class and had reportedly stated he “only showed one other student.”. Despite the multiple school counselors on site, Trinh acknowledged his mistake in not informing one. Although his demeanor against the bullies was in a defensive way, the intimidation tactic itself…
Tom’s behavior often disrupts class. Yesterday he threw a dictionary across the room, knocked over his desk, kicked it, and began yelling obscenities at the teacher and the other students in the class (LD resource room). The teacher had to call for help from his ED resource room teacher to calm him down and safely remove him from the classroom.…
In addressing your second question of Donnie’s rights being violated due to his writing “Zero Tolerance Sucks” on his t-shirt, A public school has an obligation to provide a safe and secure educational environment for all students. This is a very sensitive subject in our society. What one person deems to be perfectly fine is seriously offensive to another. School boards across the country are having to monitor and…
The case I would like to address in this assignment is based on one of my 2009/2010 NC classes in the afternoon. Despite the initial group discussion on expected behaviour, this group was demonstrating a whole host of disruptive behaviours. This group also included a special needs student, who was being supported by a Learning Support Assistant, whom I assumed had been briefed on the needs. The observed disruptive behaviour included the following:…
This civil court case takes place in a West Virginia school system located in Taylor County, when a general education high school history teacher failed to follow an IEP for Douglas Devart. During the case Devart and his parents Robert and Virginia ended up using aliases by the names of John Doe, Jane Doe and son D.D. Doe as a deterrent from the public so the family would not endure any additional embarrassment, slander, and/or liable regarding the son’s handicap. The defendants of this case were D.D.’s history teacher Michael Withers, Principal Greg Cartwright, Superintendent Wendell Teets and the Taylor County Board of Education. The following is a sequence of events that happened in chronological order that led up to the trial. Plaintiff D. D. was diagnosed as having a learning disability in the fourth grade while attending Anna Jarvis School in Taylor County. At that time he had been put on an Individual Educational Program (a.k.a. IEP) designed to accommodate his learning disability as required by Public Law 94-142 and implementing federal regulations, 34 C.F.R. 300.130 and implementing State Policy No. 2419, Section 1.3, 1.4 and 2.11, because of his learning disability D.D.’s educational program was adapted to provide oral testing by a learning disabilities teacher in a learning disabilities resource classroom. This accommodation was regularly provided at Anna Jarvis School and Grafton Middle School.…
I am emailing you about Fed's behavior today in English class. Today while our class was screening the movie "A Christmas Carol" after reading the play in class, Fed decided to inappropriately use his cell phone. Another teacher came in to notify me that Fed and a student in her math class where face timing during class. I did not see Fed's phone in his hand but the other teacher saw his face and came to notify me. Fed claims the other student face timed him, however students were not suppose to be using their devices during the movie. Fed will be serving lunch detention on the Tuesday we return from break.…
Courts allowing substantive due process claims in connection with corporal punishment have found the threshold for recovery for the violation of a student’s rights to be high. Minor pain, embarrassment, and hurt feelings do not rise to this level; actions must literally be ‘shocking to the conscience.” Disciplinary actions that have not risen to this level include requiring a ten-year-old boy to clean out a stopped-up toilet with his bare hands, physically and abusively restraining a student with disabilities in multiple incidents, shoving a student’s head into a trash can; and shaking, screaming and spitting on football players. In contrast, substantive due process rights were implicated when conscience-shocking behavior involved a coach…
I on the other hand struggled with making friends, fitting in, and just adjusting to this new class. Caesar was influenced by Cathedral and Multrey to force Pancho Morrison into giving up his bottom bunk as a way of showing dominance and letting “him know who rules”(Cathedral, 77). Similar to how they convinced Caesar I was also convinced by my friend Gabe to bully a Chinese boy named Sam. I don’t blame my friend as much as I blame myself for carrying out all the verbal and physical abuse that we caused him. I can’t remember if I did it to seem cooler in front of Gabe or to show how tough I can be, but all I know is that I would regret it later on. During History class my teacher called out Gabe and me to report to the dean’s office. As we were leaving my teacher held the door open with the look of disgust and shame, I already knew what this was about, considering Sam wasn’t in the room. I was considered one of his better students and he would never look at me the same. The dean didn’t call our parents. Instead he had us apologize to Sam and gave us a warning that if either one of us continued harassing Sam that he would get the cops involved. I could try and play the “I was just a kid” card, but I knew what I was doing just like Caesar did when he assaulted Pancho. Ever since that…
Boy F continued to fidget so the teacher suggested I ask him to stand. He did so but still messed with the table and chair. I asked him to move further away from the table and stand in front of me. He did so.…
Joseph is a fourth grade student who is having a hard time staying out of trouble during lunch and on the playground. Joseph is referred to the social worker for a functional behavioral assessment because of his acting out by hitting other students and pushing them. Joseph is living with his maternal grandmother since both of his parents are incarcerated. Joseph has a history of being physically and emotionally abused as a child. Joseph does not appear to have many friends in school and doesn’t get along well with his three other sibling either. Joseph often complains of having a stomach aches in the mornings and around lunch time. Joseph has been taken to a physician and they have ruled out any medical problems. In the assessment we will come up with an intervention plan for Joseph to hopefully get him back on the right track in school and hope that he will make better choices and learn to make new friends.…
This writer believes that the case reviewed should have been handled in a different manner and that the police should have never been involved. The student was inspired to be creative and use science skills to create a rocket, he was not intending to harm anyone and probably wanted to show teachers and friends. For using his imagination he was invited to a rocket workshop, yet lost school…
According to North Carolina Statues Chapter 115C-107.6, there are duties of Local Educational Agencies, sometimes referred to as LEA’s. Every local educational organization, in making available education for children with disabilities must meet specific criteria for the teaching of students with disabilities. These agencies must also, meet the terms of IDEA and the set of laws approved by the State Board under this Article. In supplement, every local educational agency will contain an outcome of course of action, measures, and agendas that are unswerving with this Article, IDEA, and regulations approved by the State Board.…