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April 28, 2005
School Discipline Meltdown Gets to Newspapers
When a school discipline disaster involving marijuana use on a school field trip (to a foreign country -- I'm shuddering to think of a Costa Rican jail!) gets written up in the local papers it's a very bad thing for the school. And it's not just a local paper -- the Key School is in Annapolis and the paper is the Washington Post. Of course there are the "let them finish the year (or their education)" parents and the "back the administration" parents. And if one of them had gotten arrested? I bet no one would have backed the administration, then. Also, there's no mention in the story of previous offenses.
A friend of mine taught for a year at a school in North Georgia. Another teacher who came in the same year stayed at the school; he has led an annual field trip to the Gulf Coast for kayaking. This year one of the students drowned. I don't want to know how it's turned out.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 28, 2005 8:05 AM