With the arrival of spring, misbehavior by students in Nutmeg has escalated. For example, Joe Blow, a sophomore at Nutmeg Memorial High School, was caught on video defacing a wall at the high school with spray paint, writing a message that
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Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As you can imagine, personnel issues are a frequent challenge for school principals like me. A recent challenge has been figuring out a way to complete psychological evaluations of students…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag,
We have a student whose dad has sole custody. The courts recently granted mom the following update to the custody agreement: “The father will add the mother onto the contact…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
I am the principal of an elementary school in a town that has one thing in common with Lake Wobegon, Minnesota – “all the children are above average.” As a result,…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
Our local teachers union is at it again. I am in my first year as a middle school principal, and for the first part of the year I observed what…