YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — The parents of a Maine high school student who was suspended from her lacrosse team because of an online photo showing her with a beer are challenging the constitutionality of the school's honor code.
They sued this week in federal court over the 16-year-old girl's three-week team suspension.
Lawyer Michael Waxman says the honor code for extracurricular activities allows a school to monitor and discipline 24-7. He said Friday he's not comfortable "with the school intruding into my home life or my kids' home life."
The family is seeking an injunction to let the girl play while the matter makes its way through the courts. Yarmouth School Committee Chairman David Ray tells the Portland Press Herald that students are never happy about being punished.
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Lets hope the lesson she
Lets hope the lesson she learns is that if you do wrong there are penalties not if you get a good lawyer you can get out of anything.
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And let's hope the lesson that the school learns is that you don't coerce confessions for non-school related incidents by depriving young citizens of their due process.
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Veritas wouldn't the due process only apply if she was charged with a crime. As far as I can tell from the article the girl is only suspended from the sports team.
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And, Bill Clinton didn't inhale....
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veritas - So she didn't drink the beer on a technicality. OK. Just out of curiosity - what are you smoking?
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The fumes of your ignorance, Bob. They permeate the air.
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The girl admitted to drinking beer - PPH has a more complete story. The parents ought to be thanking the school for their intervention, and sanctioning their child by taking away such privileges as sports. Instead they have chosen the lazy parenting method of trying to lay the blame on the school. A lawsuit is totally over the top and a waste of the district's legal budget. I hope the district turns around and sues the parents to recoup legal fees.
Too bad the girl doesn't have anyone to encourage her to admit she was wrong so she can learn from her mistake and move on.
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A lawsuit certainly isn't over the top when a student requests her parent's presence as she is about to ber questioned by government authority and badgered about her behavior off school property - and then denied the opportunity to consult with her parents.
It has to do with "Due Process" there, Nancy - and what government may do without involving parents when the child so requests.
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You assume the conversation was as the student says, but we are only hearing one side. I question the truthfulness of someone who seems so totally unable to accept responsibility for bad behavior.
Coincidentally, or not, in the March 30th Cumberland Police Beat there's this: 03 /28 at 2 a.m. Samuel Waxman, 18, of Boxwood Drive, Yarmouth, was summonsed for illegal possession of alcohol.
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Nancy - the school based it's discipline upon the 'confession' of the student.
Therefore - if the school accepted the 'truthfulness' of the student - then logically you should, if you back the school's findings.
Now - is Samual Waxman a juvenile as is the girl this case is about?
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What I don't accept is the girl saying she pleaded tearfully for her mommy and school officials harshly denied her. When this all comes out I think you will find that did not happen as the girl says. Also, Waxman is NOT a juvenile, he is 18, and the son of the lawyer representing this girl.
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Nancy - so this other Waxman - not a juvenile - is completely immaterial to the case. And you brought him up why????
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NYA is an independent for profit college prep school, tuition is about $22,000 a year. it is not in a district so taxpayers aren't on the hook. just a bunch of snooty adults teaching their precious little snowflakes how to game the system by not facing up to what they do wrong. no doubt they will be the no talent political hack leaders of the future.
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deimos - This isn't a 'North Yarmouth Academy' issue.
It's Yarmouth High School - a public, governmental institution rather than private.
Makes a bit of difference when you coerce confessions after refusing a student's request to consult with their parents, then deprive them of taxpayer supported activities.
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This is a child that broke the law. While I don't agree with the nanny state agenda attached to these "honor" codes, she did sign it. What kind of stupid parent finds out that their child has broken the law and stands up for them anyways?
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RedWhiteBlue - You know there was beer in that can how??
The only jurisdiction that can determine if that girl broke the law is a court. She's not been adjudicated before one yet.
Due process hasn't taken it's course.
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She read the contract and signed the contract without sitting on her mommie's or lawyer's lap so pay the price, spoiled little broad! Grow up and stay away from cameras when you are doing stupid things.
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