student facing expulsion

[jatay2003]

Thank you all for your post some helpful but most of them were really rude. Please if you can't help me on whether or not the school can take all of his credits away and make him start over as a freshman don't post. That is the only thing i need to know. I know he shouldn't have had the knife at school but we can't change the past. I just want to know if what the school is threatening is legal or not.

 

[rmet4nzkx]

Thank you all for your post some helpful but most of them were really rude. Please if you can't help me on whether or not the school can take all of his credits away and make him start over as a freshman don't post. That is the only thing i need to know. I know he shouldn't have had the knife at school but we can't change the past. I just want to know if what the school is threatening is legal or not.

They make the rules and so does the Great State of TEXAS and it is against the TEXAS penal code for them to carry a knife on campus, he is lucky he is not getting expelled. Apparently he didn't learn anything in the time he has been there. For future reference, they also execute people regularly in TEXAS
They don't mess around in TEXAS. It would be a different think if he forgot to wear his cowboy boots, that might only result being put back 1 year!

 

[Tinaa]

I live in the county next Bexar. I can understand if this years credits were lost. Expulsion usually means out for the rest of the year. Is he being sent to an alternative school? I'm not sure how they can take away last years credits. An honor student here was sent to A school when he was found to have a tiny pocket knife in his dad's pick-up's ashtray. Zero tolerance are the words of the day in US schools. With the dropout rates in Texas so high, I can't imagine the school making it that difficult to graduate, unless the kid has been in trouble in the past. THen it may be a case of good riddance to bad rubbish. There is always home school.

 

[jatay2003]

Thank you Tinaa you're the first person that has given me a helpful response. And I totally agree with you... I don't see why or how they can take away the credits he's already earned. But to answer your question we don't know yet if they're going to send him to an alternative school, he has a meeting at the school tomorrow to decide his punishment. And he's not a trouble maker.... this is the first time he's gotten in trouble for as long as I can remember.

 

[Tinaa]

In most school districts, around here anyway, the credits for electives are usually lost when a student is sent to A school. The core classes are the only ones taught. When I taught theatre arts I made a trip to the A school once a week so the two students sent would not lose their fine art credits. If the student is under the special education program there are several options available. I'm curious to know what happens.

 

[jatay2003]

Well we'll know today cause he has a meeting at the school this afternoon. Right now I have a call into the MVISD Superintendant about making him start over as a freshman.