Teenagers Being Disciplined By School For Incidents Off Campus
Attorney Frederick Penney dives into the Brandi Levy case
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Managing partner of Penney and Associates Lawyers weighs in on the controversy over whether a school can discipline a child for activities that have occurred off campus? https://www.penneylawyers.com/ .
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
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This controversy revolves around the 2017 case of then 14-year-old Brandi Levy and the Mahanoy Area School District in Pennsylvania. Brandi was a junior varsity cheerleader at Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. After one year of cheer Brandi was hoping that she would be moved up from junior varsity to varsity cheerleader. However, she was not moved up to the varsity cheer squad and she like many kids was quite disappointed. On
In 1965, when Mary Beth Tinker was an eighth-grader at Harding Junior High in Des Moines, she and five other students, including her brother, John, 15, wore black bands on their arms to protest the Vietnam War. The students were suspended from school.
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