Imaginary County Public Schools Case Analysis

High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

In 1995, Doe v. Duncanville Independent School District centered around a female student-athlete and her unwillingness to participate in prayer activity. She claimed her refusal to engage in team sponsored worship subjected her to ridicule from teammates, peers, and spectators. The Supreme Court ruled that the school district had failed the Lemon Test by endorsing religion through employee-led prayer, which is a direct violation of the Establishment Clause (Lee, 2005). As a result, “school officials, administrators, and employees were prohibited from initiating, leading, sponsoring, or promoting prayer at athletic events, or using the public address system for similar purposes” (Willett, 2014). This may not have been the popular decision, but

In the case of Board of Education of Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, several students in January of 1990 sued the school board alleging that Westside's refusal to allow the students to start a Christian club violated the Equal Access Act. Some students wanted to form this club and be given the same privileges and meeting terms as other after-school schools in this district. The administration initially denied the request, and the school board upheld the administration's decision. The Court of Appeals found in favor of the students in June of 1990.

The Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe stated that student-led/ student-initiated prayer at high school football games violated the establishment clause of the first amendment. The Baptist religion was promoted in the Santa Fe Independent School District in Texas, which is located between Galveston and Houston. A teacher handed out flyers for a “revival meeting” which involved reading the bible and other Catholic things. They offered prayer up to God at graduations, assemblies, and football games. One mormon student and mother filed suit against the school district. Also, one catholic student and mother filed suit against the school district. Their lawsuit involved that the Establishment Clause was violated many times. They did not

In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Tatro in the case of Irving Independent School District vs. Tatro stating that a school must provide school health services covered by the school during school hours if the school nurse can provide the service. For Amber Tatro this meant that the school nurse could perform her clean intermittent catheterization (CIC). This case would lead the way in defining what schools would be responsible for when it comes to school health services.

To help children achieve self-reliance and self-esteem through academic accomplishment, believing that accomplishment grows from the active and disciplined use of the intellect

This Supreme Court case involved First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District involved three public school students (petitioners) in Des Moines, Iowa who were suspended from school, because they wore black armbands in protest of the government's policy in Vietnam. The petitioners sought damages and an injunction against the regulation preventing them from wearing the armbands. Their complaint was dismissed by the District Court on February 24, 1969, because the Court determined that the regulation was within the authority of the Board's power though there was no proof that the behavior had "materially and substantially" interfered with the school's ability to conduct school activities.

As a professional school counselor, it's important to be competent in the profession that you're in and also abiding the code of ethics. I went to my state of Georgia's board of education website for school counselors, and I can upon a case dated back in 2006 that had something to do with a school counselor who was found to be incompetent in her profession. In the case of Julett Carnahan vs Butts County board of education, one of the reasons the board decided to discipline Carnahan was because they found her to incompetent as a school counselor. The case also stated the superintendent presented evidence that other faculty members did not believe her at all as a school counselor. Other evidence shows that she failed to meet with one student for a couple of days after being referred by someone, and it required consultation within 24 hours which is also an ethical violation (Julett Carnahan vs Butts County Board of Education, 2006).

Luis M. v. Hayward Unified School District case can be applied to this situation when a student was attacked and thusly injured in his school’s hallway in between class changes. There were no teachers supervising the hallway. Luis M. was a 15-year-old sophomore. Luis M. said a gang member attacked him in the lunchroom on his first day at Hayward High. Luis M. said the school was negligent in supervising the students and allowing the nonstudents to enter campus. Applying this case to the walkway here, the school could easily be considered negligent if a student were to become injured while traveling along this area because of a lack of supervision. The school is breaching its duty of care to the students’ safety. Lack of supervision could

Communication within the Westside School District No. 5 between the school district and the communities and families that it serves is a very dynamic process. I talked with district administrators, community members, researched pertinent information in the Arkansas State University library, and various governmental online sources and found very helpful information to include in this sociological inventory. Westside Consolidated School District No. 5 is a consolidation of primarily three school districts Bono, Cash and Egypt located in Craighead County, Arkansas in 1966 (Westside, 2017). The district also includes parts of Walnut Ridge and Alicia in Lawrence County and parts of Jonesboro in Craighead County. The district has three school buildings housing students from pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade. The elementary school is the school for

The defendant Abington School District is being challenged in the Supreme Court saying that reading verses of the Holy Bible each day before class is unconstitutional under the 1st and 14th Amendments. Plaintiff Edward Schempp filed the complaint against Abington School District. Abington Township is located in Pennsylvania, and at the time Pennsylvania was one of four states with a statute to make schools perform Bible readings before the start of classes everyday. That law/statute being (24 Pa. Stat. 15-1516, as amended, Pub. Law 1928) was being brought up.

Reason Filed: A middle school student created a website filled with graphic bloody images of a math teacher and the school principal. The image of the math teacher went through some type of metamorphosis where her image was transformed into the image of Adolph Hitler. Additionally, the website offered money for a hit man to murder the teacher. The website created a lot of mental anguish for the teacher. The student was suspended and while under suspension the school was in the process of expelling the student. The student and family claimed that the school could not disciple the student because their child was practicing their First Amendment rights.

Previously working for a Title I Public Inter-City School, the two major controls used where: bureaucratic and budgetary. Bateman, Snell, and Konopaske (2016) defined bureaucratic control system as a way to measure progress towards set performance goals, and if/when necessary using corrective measures to ensure performance goals. Public schools must comply with all state statutes governing education and all state administrative regulations, such as contractual obligations (removal of ten-year teacher contract and standardized test 10 Ready Test). Comply with Federal administrative agencies relations, for example, No Child Left behind and national changes to standardized testing. Policies and procedure established

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