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Posted: 7:03 AM Oct 29, 2009
Legal Fight Over Long Term Suspension May Go To State Supreme Court
The legal fight stemming from a fight at a local high school could go all the way to the State Supreme Court.
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The legal fight stemming from a fight at a local high school could go all the way to the State Supreme Court.
A fight at Southside High School in Chocowinity in Beaufort County in January 2008, led to the suspension of two girls for the rest of the semester. They filed a lawsuit that argued students on long term suspension have a right to an education. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled for the school system last week, however, one of the three judges dissented. That means the case could be appealed to the North Carolina Supreme Court. The Washington Daily News reports the lawyer for the students plans to appeal.
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Posted by: FYI
on Oct 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM
These two girls have been and are back at southside receiving their education at the same school they disruppted, with the same kids they caused to loose privlages that still have not been returned to the innocent kids. maybe I should sue because they are a danger to the rest of the school and my children. since apparently parents can sue for no good reason.
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Posted by: Dar
Location: Wilmar
on Oct 30, 2009 at 12:51 AM
To: nope, it's a right. Students indeed have a right to a education but they forfeit that right when they act like animals and place other students in danger just like someone taking a gun to school or calling in a bomb threat to school. It's just a another case of someone wanting something for nothing, they had their chance of a free education and lost it. Curious about the social & financial dynamics at home.
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Posted by: nope, it's a right
on Oct 29, 2009 at 09:10 PM
There is a NC constitutional right to "a sound basic education. See the Leandro case. Not a privilege. Not just a random opinion. It's NC law. And, the state is obligated to provide alternative education, which the state failed to do in this case.
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