An answer Wrote:
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> Where's the Open Window? Wrote:
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> > I know this was recently written about but I
> have
> > a specific question. My child has been expelled
> > from a fcps for possession of marijuana with
> > intent to distribute. He has a 3.996 average,
> > doesn't matter. First offense for anything,
> > doesn't matter. He made an incredibly horrible
> > mistake in judgement and foolish choice and
> that's
> > all that matters. Because dealing with the root
> of
> > the problem, correcting his path, paying the
> > price, taking the consequence and owning up to
> the
> > illegal behavoir is one thing, but having no
> place
> > to actually go to school takes away the only
> thing
> > I want to give him at this point: hope.
> >
> > I've made the rounds at the catholic and
> private
> > schools - they won't take him, of course. The
> > alternative schools like "adult detention
> center"
> > and "boys probationary center" are not where I
> > want him to be either. Can't afford military
> > school. If I sell my house and move to Loudoun
> > County and try to enroll him there will they
> > "cross-reference" him? Or will his transcripts
> > mention expulsion and they will turn him away
> too?
> > Does anyone know? Thanks.
>
>
> I think this answers your question about moving to
> Loudoun.
>
> From the Code of Virginia
>
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+co
> d+22.1-277.2
>
> § 22.1-277.2. Authority to exclude students under
> certain circumstances; petition for readmission;
> alternative education program.
> A. A student, who has been expelled or suspended
> for more than thirty days from attendance at
> school by a school board or a private school in
> this Commonwealth or in another state or for whom
> admission has been withdrawn by a private school
> in this Commonwealth or in another state may be
> excluded from attendance by a local school board
> in Virginia, regardless of whether such student
> has been admitted to another school division or
> private school in the Commonwealth or in another
> state subsequent to such expulsion, suspension, or
> withdrawal of admission upon a finding that the
> student presents a danger to the other students or
> staff of the school division after (i) written
> notice to the student and his parent that the
> student may be subject to exclusion, the reasons
> therefor, and, in the event of such exclusion, of
> the right to appeal the decision at a hearing
> before the school board or a committee thereof;
> and (ii) a review of the case has been conducted
> by the division superintendent or his designee and
> exclusion has been recommended.
This is Virginia law. Is this true in Maryland, too? Maybe the OP could move to MontCo.