The unreasonable ‘Reasonable School Discipline Act of 2013′
You won’t believe what a bill called “The Reasonable School Discipline Act of 2013″and introduced in the Maryland legislature is intended to accomplish. (Or maybe you will.)
My colleague Michael Rosenwald calls it a bill “to protect Pop-Tart guns.” Why? A 7-year-old in an Anne Arundel County school bit a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun, apparently said, “Bang bang,” and was suspended.
The actual Senate Bill 1058 says:
FOR the purpose of prohibiting a principal from suspending or expelling a student who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun, or any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpose; prohibiting a principal from suspending or expelling a student who makes a hand shape or gesture resembling a gun; authorizing a principal to suspend or expel a student who performs a certain action as a direct act of violence against another student on school property; establishing the maximum discipline for a student in kindergarten
Dept. of Education says U-Va. accreditor did not break federal laws by placing school ‘on warning’
U.S. Department of Education officials announced last month that the University of Virginia’s accrediting agency did not break any federal laws when it placed the public institution “on warning” for violations related to the U-Va. governing board ousting and then reinstating the university’s president in June.
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