Yet another example of how many school administrators and officials have lost all respect for the parents and community members who pay their salaries...
From "Latest Public School Outrage" by David E. Smith, posted 9/8/07 at Illinois Family Institute
Michael Brumbaugh, a dean at a Chicago suburban junior high school in Addison, Illinois -- Indian Trail Junior High School -- is accused of unauthorized entry into a student's home, while the student's mother was in the shower!
Not surprisingly, the family has filed a lawsuit against the school district.
The whole situation began when 12-year-old Tyler D'Alessandro discovered he had left his knife in his backpack after he had accompanied his dad to work over the weekend, using the knife to break apart boxes and to separate his LEGO pieces!
Days later, while walking home for lunch, he discovered and showed the knife to a friend when, suddenly, another student grabbed it and ran toward nearby students in a juvenile attempt to frighten them. Tyler quickly got the knife back and continued home.
Now mind you, this incident did not happen on school property!
The following school day, a parent of one of the students, who had seen the knife, complained to school officials. Tyler was called into the dean's office. Tyler was then taken, involuntarily from school, in the dean's personal vehicle. He was driven to his home, and without authorization from Tyler's parents, Dean Brumbaugh took Tyler into the home to look for the knife.
Even though Dean Brumbaugh knew Tyler's mother was home and in the shower, he didn't wait to speak to her, nor did he tell her later that he and Tyler had even been to the D'Alessandro home to look for the knife.
For the knife incident that took place away from school grounds, Tyler was suspended for 10 days. When the D'Alessandros complained about how Tyler was treated and the unauthorized search of their home, District Superintendent, Donald Hendricks, response was to increase Tyler's disciplinary penalty by transferring the 12 year-old out of Indian Trail JHS and into an alternative educational program.
When D'Alessandros complained about Hendrick's intimidation tactics, the discipline was yet again increased to a recommendation for expulsion.
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