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School orders HAHHAHAHAHAHA Please. It would be FU and meet my attorney.
And stop going to those government schools. I would guess the psych exam could not be required if he isn't even going to the school. People should take this event as one more hint that they should consider better options.School orders HAHHAHAHAHAHA Please. It would be FU and meet my attorney.
And stop going to those government schools. I would guess the psych exam could not be required if he isn't even going to the school. People should take this event as one more hint that they should consider better options.
Ne w Jersey. Yup, it figures. If I was given an assignment like that, I would email the teacher to confirm it. Once confirmed, I have documentation that proves that I was just following orders. Document, document, document and CYA.
No way would that stand up in court. Depriving a willing kid of an education is a big 4a violation. That's why expulsion is a legal process.
Parents rule in a case like this. They can and should tell the school administration to get bent, then dare them to do anything about it when they send their kid back. Admin will cave; they've got no legal leg to stand on.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. No public school I've heard of has the ability to compel a student to get a psych evaluation. Granted, I'm no expert on NJ schools, but I'd like to hear someone other than the student comment on this.
I've got no doubt the kid thinks the school ordered a psych evaluation, but adolescents get messages wrong a lot of the time.
I wear a Cabela's cap at school all the time and nobody has squeaked, but my last year before retirement I'm ratcheting it up to a Glock t-shirt I think. I discuss the prez issues, like energy, jobs, and gun control with my class, and i haven't had obam-er-Stalin kick in my classroom door yet.
Read the story, well I guess between the lines. It said it ordered one. I imagine, the school kicked him out until a psych eval was performed.
Story went on to say "....since Harvey withdrew from Manville rather than subject himself to offensive mandated indignities"
This doesn't pass the sniff test. No public school I've heard of has the ability to compel a student to get a psych evaluation. Granted, I'm no expert on NJ schools, but I'd like to hear someone other than the student comment on this.
I've got no doubt the kid thinks the school ordered a psych evaluation, but adolescents get messages wrong a lot of the time.
They might not to be able to have him hauled off to one, but I bet they could make it a condition of him returning to school.
There are definitely circumstances in which a public school can require a psychological or psychiatric evaluation of a student, prior to returning to school (though presenting it in a manner in which it is done consensually is more common and more desirable). The basis would be because of the level of safety risk that the student (could potentially) pose. There are also circumstances when because of the safety risk that a student poses (either to self or others)/appropriateness that the school district could mandate alternative placement as well, even over student/parent objections.
I would think it would still require a court order.
To be clear: you're saying that a superintendent of a New Jersey public school district can unilaterally order a psych evaluation, and then later have it stand up in court as binding?
I would be shocked if that's the case. I've got a MA administrator's license, and although I know nothing about NJ schools, school administrators here do not have any such power.
Well, if they get a doctor involved along with Child Protective Services I bet they can do pretty much anything they want. That happens all the time up here, why not down in Jersey?
Funny, my son wrote a 10 page research paper on the folly of gun control sophomore year (last year) received an A+. Started a 3 day discussion in class and was ask to present it to his teacher's other AP History classes. All of this in one of the bluest of blue states. No repercussions, no psych evaluation, no nothing.
I would think it would still require a court order.
To be clear: you're saying that a superintendent of a New Jersey public school district can unilaterally order a psych evaluation, and then later have it stand up in court as binding?
I would be shocked if that's the case. I've got a MA administrator's license, and although I know nothing about NJ schools, school administrators here do not have any such power.
I can't speak for New Jersey, where this happened, but I can state for fact that in Connecticut (where I'm from) that administrative hearings conducted by the SDE have affirmed such district mandated evaluations.
I also know of instances in which districts have ordered psych assessments where the families are cooperative.
Another route that has also been used in Connecticut to get kids evaluation/ treatment that parents decline is to file a 136 with DCF (based on neglect) which will effectuate a DCF Investigation, which can have 1 of 2 positive effects, (1) the parent chooses to cooperate to avoid the heat [i.e. that they are trying not to neglect their child's needs] or (2) if believed warranted by the caseworker, DCF will require and/or provide the services.
We're talking past each other here, and I think we're saying the same thing: schools can't order psych evals on their own. They can suggest it to wiling parents, but then it's the parents doing the dirty work. Or they can (and must, by law) file a CHINS, but then it's DCF doing the dirty work. Or they can ask DESE to make it a condition of re-enrollment, but then it's DESE doing the dirty work.
It's not the school, sua sponte.
Huh.
It's proving nigh impossible for me to find out how NJ works, but since 90% of the hits I'm getting refer to right wing media coverage of this one case, each one quoting the kid and with no research into NJ school law, I can only guess NJ is as bad as CT or, more likely, too opaque for anyone to understand.
It would seem to me that, based on what coverage exists for this case, the kid's hit a strong appeals case, given that the teacher clearly didn't feel the project was out of bounds at the time.