DailyProgress.com | Albemarle board addresses drinking, salaries
The board recommended that the legislators support an amendment that would release to school administrators the names of students under age 18 charged with underage drinking outside of school grounds.Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon, said the proposal was a good idea as long as it does not compromise the confidentiality policy of courts in overseeing the cases.
Under current Virginia law, police inform a school division’s superintendent of students involved in any incident involving alcohol, marijuana, or a controlled substance while “on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity.”
The board wants to amend the code to “on and off school property.”
Yes, because we all know that it’s the schools business to know everything that happens to your child, whenever, whereever, and however. Of what relavance to teaching a student is this information? This is something that the parent needs to be informed of, and is the parent’s responsibility to handle, not the government. Next thing they’ll have mandatory treatment programs for any juvenile caught drinking, on or off school property.