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Virginia student's suspension for not reporting classmate with bullet sooner is 'appalling,' judge says
2025-04-27 00:45:05| Spiritual Career Counseling
A Virginia Beach, Virginia, judge said it was "appalling" that a school suspended a sixth grader for waiting too long to report that another student had brought a bullet to class. The judge ruled Monday in favor of the child's mother, Rachel Wigand, after she sued St. John the Apostle Catholic School for breaching its contractwhen administrators suspended her son in September for a day and a half. The child, who was identified in the lawsuit as A.W., received the same suspension as the student who was alleged to have brought the bullet to class. "A suspension on a child's academic record is permanent. When you're enrolling children in subsequent educational places, they ask you that question: Has your kid ever been suspended? What happened to her child was so absurd," said attorney Tim Anderson, who represented Wigand. "It wasn't fair that the mom was going to have to answer that question, yes, for the remainder of this child's academic career," he said. The child was in class, prepari...
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