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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I could be wrong but I believe disciplinary proceedings are typically is handled at the LEA/district level.  So it may well be true that an individual MCPS principal cannot make that decision, and that it has to be made at a district level but in the case of a charter, the charter IS the LEA and IS the district, and therefore the head of school may well have that authority, to where that IS the disciplinary proceeding.[/quote]

If so, I think that's a problem, because any school funded by public money should afford its students due process. Or, at the very least, it's another way that public charter schools are just not comparable to regular public schools, because they have much more freedom to get rid of students they don't want.[/quote]

Due process?

Schools, whether charters or otherwise rarely throw students out on a first offense.  They typically give kids plenty of opportunities and try to work with the parents.  From just looking at the sheer number of incidents that occurred with this student it sure seems to me like they tried and tried and tried and gave this kid second and third and fourth and fifth and sixth chances.  And I'm sure each time that came with plenty of interaction with the family.  That's PLENTY of "due process" in my book.  And at some point enough is enough.

Again, why are you defending this violent behavior?

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Nobody is defending violent behavior. Why do you keep saying that they are?[/quote]

Why?  Because the posters who are attacking the school consistently keep dodging any discussion let alone acknowledgement of the student's violence and instead keep making the school out to be the offender, and now demanding "due process" despite a long laundry list of instances of violence.    At best that speaks to misguided priorities, making the school's actions out to be worse than those of the violent student, at worst it is defending violence - and either way it's just plain wrong on their part.[/quote]

Hear hear[/quote]

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