'Second Chance' Program, Parental Notification Discussed at Fairfax Discipline Meeting
Committee hosts outreach meetings this month in an effort to reform the county's Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook.
Parents, community members, educators and others gathered Thursday to discuss Fairfax County Public Schools' disciplinary procedures, "second chance" programs and parental notification. Those are among the modifications the system could look to make as it continues its years-long process of reforming its Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook. But many of the few dozen people at the meeting, which was moderated by the Ad Hoc Community Committee on Student Rights and Responsibilities (SRR), said they couldn’t understand the SR&R guide itself, complaining it resembled a legal document. It is too long and too hard to understand, they said. Parents recommended the SR&R handbook be simplified or at least made more easily searchable …
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12:26 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
Curious if the West Springfield student arrests were done at the school for this very reason. No need for Miranda rights, etc. Was anything searched there? No need for a warrant. Thank you for bringing student rights into focus. more ›