Saying they felt they had not yet had a "full, robust" discussion on the
makeup of a committee charged with reviewing the system's discipline
policies, Fairfax County School Board members delay
As someone who has
been a long-term substitute teacher in Fairfax County for five years,
logging about 4,000 classroom hours, I had to laugh at the notion [
The Fairfax County School Board postponed action Thursday night on a
series of proposals that would have brought major changes to discipline
policies, tabling a measure to require that parents
Northern Virginia lawmakers showed bipartisan support for proposals
on requiring parental notification in school disciplinary matters in a
news conference in the House of Delegates on Monday.
A few weeks before summer break, an eighth-grader in Fairfax County was pulled from his civics class and led into an office. An assistant principal told him that classmates had reported hearing him say he’d smoked marijuana with five other boys — days earlier, after school hours, off campus. A uniformed police officer joined the interview. The boy did not want to talk, his mother, Dawn Daugherty, later said, but did so after the officer told him to confess or risk “doing time.” Fairfax school officials said there was no such threat. They said the boy was told what other students had said and about the importance of telling the truth.
