Safe, Orderly, and Productive School Legal News Note
SAFE, ORDERLY, AND PRODUCTIVE SCHOOL LEGAL NEWS NOTE February 2004 School Leadership, Management, and Administration’s Safe, Orderly, and Productive School Initiative Jack Klotz, SLMA Coordinator **Johnny R. Purvis, Professor – School Leadership, Management, and Administration, UCA Shelly Albritton, Technology Coordinator Wm. Leewer, Jr., Editor, MSU Graduate School of School Leadership, Management, and Administration University of Central Arkansas 201 Donaghey Avenue Main Hall Room 104 Conway, Arkansas Phone: 501-450-5258 The Safe, Orderly, and Productive School Legal News Note is a monthly update of selected significant court cases pertaining to school safety-security and student management issues. It is written by Johnny R. Purvis for the Safe, Orderly, and Productive School Initiative, located in the Graduate School of Management, Leadership, and Administration at the University of Central Arkansas. If you have any questions or comments about these cases and their potential ramifications, please phone me at 501- 450-5258. In addition, feel free to contact me regarding school safety and security issues; student discipline/management issues; and issues pertaining to gangs, cults, and alternative beliefs. 1 “Student Kicked and Called Teacher Butthead” *Mulvey v. Jones (Va. App., 587 S.E. 2d 728), October 28, 2003 An eleven-year-old student was misbehaving and being disruptive in his teacher’s classroom. The teacher asked the student to leave the classroom three times and the student refused. The teacher placed the youngster’s book bag on a desk in the hallway. Thereupon, the student went into the hall, refused to sit, kicked the desk, and called his teacher a “butthead”. The teacher grabbed the student from behind with a strong grip on his shoulders and slammed him into the desk in a sitting position.
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