School district Code of Conduct in PA

[allisojh]

Pennsylvania is the state.,

My school distict adopted a code of conduct policy where as if a student is arrested anywhere within the school district, outside the grounds of school, after school, weekends, summer recess, spring break, etc... that the police will notify the school and the school will dismiss the student for no less than 45 days from any activity they may be in, PLUS their prom, graduation, all star games, etc...

My question is, is this legal that the police release private info about juvenals without the parent's permission?

Besides, how can the school kick some one out of an activity for something they did OUTSIDE of the realm of school?

If I am wrong please give me the legal reason why and if am am right, how can I proceed to have this brought to the attention to the district and the taxpayers of the district.

Thank you,

Parent/taxpayer/teacher in the district

 

[truly]

Really?

Can I ask what part of PA is this?? I have family in Western PA

 

[allisojh]

Interboro School District. Philadelphia suburbs

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

Pennsylvania is the state.,

My school distict adopted a code of conduct policy where as if a student is arrested anywhere within the school district, outside the grounds of school, after school, weekends, summer recess, spring break, etc... that the police will notify the school and the school will dismiss the student for no less than 45 days from any activity they may be in, PLUS their prom, graduation, all star games, etc...

My question is, is this legal that the police release private info about juvenals without the parent's permission?

MY RESPONSE: First, the plural word is spelled "Juveniles". Second, there is no law saying that a juvenile's arrest is "private", nor that "a parent's permission" is required.



Besides, how can the school kick some one out of an activity for something they did OUTSIDE of the realm of school?

MY RESPONSE: Easy. A school district is a governmental entity; i.e., a political subdivision of the State, with the right and power to make it's own rules and regulations - - just as long as those rules and regulations do not abridge the State Constitution or other statutes. In your case, the district is within its Constitutional rights to know, and the police are within their rights to divulge, necessary criminal information about its citizens; e.g., its school children.


IAAL

 

[stealth2]

See, I personally think this is an excellent policy for a school district to enact.

 

[stephenk]

Pennsylvania is the state.,

My school distict adopted a code of conduct policy where as if a student is arrested anywhere within the school district, outside the grounds of school, after school, weekends, summer recess, spring break, etc... that the police will notify the school and the school will dismiss the student for no less than 45 days from any activity they may be in, PLUS their prom, graduation, all star games, etc...

My question is, is this legal that the police release private info about juvenals without the parent's permission?

Besides, how can the school kick some one out of an activity for something they did OUTSIDE of the realm of school?

If I am wrong please give me the legal reason why and if am am right, how can I proceed to have this brought to the attention to the district and the taxpayers of the district.

Thank you,

Parent/taxpayer/teacher in the district

So why was your kid arrested?

 

[frylover]

My purely "non legal" comment here is that if I had been arrested as a teenager I wouldn't have had to be concerned about the school not allowing me to participate in all star games and proms...because my PARENTS would have personally limited my activities to eating and sleeping.

What happened to parents who are more concerned with their children's conduct than they are with trying to find ways around the consequences for that conduct.

Also a parent, teacher and taxpayer, by the way.

 

[nextwife]

Agreed. If I had done anything "out-of-line", the school's actions would have been nothing compared with the shame I would have felt for letting my parent's down and the consequences THEY would have handed down.

A local school board, instead of backing their coach for expecting better than average behavior from their athletic team (which they had all signed onto when joining the team), caved when some parents of disciplined kids whined to the school board about their kids getting kicked off the team for underage drinking and threatened legal action. They fired the coach instead. Thank goodness the locals are outraged and recalling the board and there are threats of legal action on behalf of the coach. The board botched it. What is wrong with some parents? Kids who act outside their known limits and violate rules should face the appropriate consequences, not be coddled by their parents.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jul04/241024.asp

 

[frylover]

To nextwife:

I just read the story at your link. Jeez, the world is full of idiots and morons, isn't it! Thee arguments of those parents are the most asinine I have ever heard.