FARMINGTON – SAD 9 directors recently expelled two high school boys indefinitely from school for violating the student’ handbook. The boys may petition at any time for readmission, Assistant Superintendent Susan Pratt said Tuesday.
One boy allegedly had a loaded pellet gun, ammunition, cartridges and a marijuana pipe and wrapping papers in his vehicle on school property, and the other boy allegedly had an “exceedingly offensive note which was threatening to a Mt. Blue High School teacher” that was confiscated by a teacher, according to the board’s findings.
Directors voted unanimously Dec. 20 to expel a student who had admitted to school officials that he had taken students off campus, used marijuana and then came back to school. The boy also admitted that administrators would find prohibited items in the vehicle once they requested to inspect it, including the pellet gun and ammunition, the board’s findings state.
In the second incident, directors voted 12-1, with Jo Josephson dissenting, to expel a student who had a threatening note in his possession when it was confiscated and delivered to the principal’s office.
“In an investigation it was admitted that the student wrote the note, circulated it among other students, and considered it to be a joke,” the board’s findings state.
The student and his parent had signed acknowledgment of reading the student handbook and the provisions about student conduct under the “general rules” in the handbook, it states.
“The student’s conduct in writing and circulating the note constituted deliberate disobedience,” findings state.
SAD 9 Superintendent Michael Cormier declined comment on the contents of the note on Tuesday.
Board Chairman Ray Glass said Tuesday that it’s inappropriate to get into the substance of the note, but “it was clearly a threatening note.”
When board members saw the note, Glass said, it was “not only threatening but upsetting to read.”
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