Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As is happening all over right now, students have been making “darts,” which are “Post-it”® notes made into paper planes with a straightened paperclip piece out of the end. It’s a
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Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As is happening all over right now, students have been making “darts,” which are “Post-it”® notes made into paper planes with a straightened paperclip piece out of the end. It’s a…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
I have a question regarding teachers’ rights in a PPT. More specifically, what they are allowed and not allowed to advocate for during a PPT? I ask because we have been…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As principal of a middle school, I was surprised when two students complained to me that their homeroom teacher hung a crucifix in her classroom. Frankly, I thought that they were…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As a middle school principal, I was interested to read Legal Mailbag’s answer to last week’s question about a possible restraint. Actually, it seems to me that this interaction should…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
In this day and age, educators are well-versed in the importance of not touching students in any way that might be misconstrued. However, an issue happened in one of our middle…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
One of the students at my high school has been causing trouble, and, given my position as an assistant principal, I went to contact his parents. When I looked in PowerSchool,…
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag,
I work with a wonderful special education department with staff who are very conscientious about scheduling annual reviews in a timely manner. Most of the time, our PPTs are very…