Four leadership students in positions of power recently stepped down from their positions due to an incident that occurred after school hours.
The situation started when the students were caught after school with illegal copies of school keys. The motive behind this is unknown as of now.
When asked to confirm whether or not this was true Mr. Malcolm confirmed, “Yes, that is true.”
“I can’t give specifics on the circumstances,” Malcolm said. “They made some bad choices around things at school, which I would say conflicted with their roles in the ASB positions they were holding as role models and expectations of them as ASB members, so they resigned from their positions for those actions.”
Although there hasn’t been a message about the incident sent out to the whole school, an anonymous player on a sports team said the coach talked about it to them.
“My coach just said that they tried to make copies of keys to the rooms at school,” the player said.
One leadership student felt strongly about the ASB President’s resignation and was seen with a petition to reinstate him. When a source asked what it was for, the petition creator said that an administrator had told her not to say why they had to step down. She didn’t say exactly which administrator told her this but just that they did.
Malcolm and other Administrators were limited in what information they could share with the public. “I don’t know if it’s FERPA,” Malcolm said, “but any punishment things that happen with students are protected. From an administrative point of view, we can’t share that publicly. Beyond that, we’re not supposed to share who was in trouble and what that was for.”
FERPA stands for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. FERPA “is a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education records,” according to the U.S. Department of Education’s website.
