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In the interests of fairness, the Rappahannock school board must institute changes in the procedure followed in discipline cases under the school’s recently adopted drug and alcohol policy.
The policy calls for students suspected of violations to be suspended pending School board action. We have no quarrel with the policy. The problems arise in implementation.
By resolution, the board has decreed that it will not hold special sessions to deal with discipline cases. All cases are to be handled at the regular monthly board meetings.
That’s fine if the suspected violation occurs the week before the regular board meeting. Then the board members can make a timely decision as to the guilt or innocense of the individual involved after a due process hearing.
But what about the boy or girl whose suspected violation occurs just a few days after the monthly meeting? Under current procedure, they can be suspended from school for up to four weeks before the board hears the case. What happens if the board then decides that evidence is insufficient to prove that a violation has in fact occurred? Do they turn back the clock? How does the youngster regain the weeks of learning missed due to a suspicion that prov‘ ed false?
Just a few months back, a student was suspended after cans of beer were found in his car parked in the school parking lot. The incident occurred just a few days before the regular board meeting. At that meeting, the young man convinced the school board that the beer wasn’t his, that he wasn’t guil
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