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lished policy and state law (of which the school children are constantly being reminded in special sessions on the subject) puts vodka or gin in the soft drink bottle for concealment and brings it on to the school grounds to use and distribute. The school children are there to be given an education at public expense and we are riot going to allow their education to be thwarted and our hard-earned tax money to be flushed down the toilet by drugs or alcohol.
As to items (2) and (3) and as one School Board member, I say to Mrs. Frye, “Right on.”
I have told my fellow Board members and one Superintendent that, to guarantee non-discriminatory treatment, I do not even want to know the name of the child involved while the facts of the case are being ascertained and prior to the determination of punishment. I don’t want to know the family name, the amount of assets they have or the race of the child; I only need to know (for identification) prior to disposition of the case, the age of the student, the grade in which he or she is enrolled and the child’s sex (no sexist arguments, please!) While the facts of the case are being ascertained, we cannot, under due process rules, be told what the past disciplinary record of the child has been. But once guilt or innocence has been determined, we can and we must have this past record laid out before us before punishment is determined. Repeat offenders are not going to get a “slap on the wrist”; expulsion then becomes a distinct possibility. And there goes the third TV set and the second car, if both parents are working. When it is all over, I might ask, “now, who were the children in the case?” afterward. This system of anonimity is my suggestion to guarantee non-discrimination; it is not required by present law or due process, however.
In the past, the School Board has been charged with disciminatory treatment in disciplinary cases on
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