When seniors at Walt Whitman High School cross the stage during
graduation ceremonies on Wednesday, at least one student will be
missing. Principal Alan Goodwin has taken a tough stance on underage
drinking, and one teenager who broke the rules will be sitting out.
“The
message is out there that there will be consequences,” Goodwin said.
“If they drink at prom or post-prom, they don’t walk at graduation.”
Such
hard-line approaches at Montgomery County’s public schools have
prompted heated debate this graduation season following the
superintendent’s decision to overrule another principal who took a
similar position.
Donna Redmond Jones, principal at
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, had told students for months that if they
drank or used drugs on prom night they would lose their chance to
participate in commencement. Jones disciplined six seniors who drank on
the school’s prom night, May 6.
But as the school’s June 1
graduation day approached, interim superintendent Larry A. Bowers
overturned Jones’s decision to bar them from graduation ceremonies...
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Preferential treatment, arbitrary justice or random enforcement?
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