Principal Alan Goodwin has taken a tough stance on underage drinking, and one teenager who broke the rules will be sitting out. #graduation #mcps #mocoboe #doublestandard

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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