Administrators, Students React to Whitman Suspensions
Administrators and students from four Montgomery County schools react to 36 Whitman students being suspended from extracurricular activities for drinking at an off-campus party.
Three dozen students at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda were suspended from extracurricular activities resulting from an off-campus, underage drinking incident, the Gazette reported in early January. Whitman Principal Alan Goodwin interviewed several students after picking up on school gossip and Facebook chatter and was able to identify the students cited by Montgomery County Police for alcohol possession at the house party Dec. 10, according to the report. This raised the question: What jurisdiction do schools have to punish students for their actions away from school? Patch caught up with administrators from Wootton and Quince Orchard and students from Whitman, Wootton, and Bethesda-Chevy Chase regarding Goodman’s decision and …
Rob Saah Technology Enterprise's
11:43 am on Sunday, January 29, 2012
if its outside of the school, the schools should mind there freaking business, and stop getting into peoples business outside of school, What happens out of school stays out of school, there for the schools need to stay out of it. more ›