Rep. Micah Gravley, HB 826

[nickchester]

As the legislative session has now ended we have a better understanding of what was passed. Thank you to a member of our Paulding delegation for working on education issues:

 

"Under HB 826, schools would no longer be forced to expel students who are caught with items like a fishing knife or a baseball bat in their cars on school campuses. Currently, if a student is found on a school campus with these items in their vehicle, they are automatically suspended and charged with a felony. In these cases under this bill, local school systems will now be able to issue lesser penalties if they have no reason to believe that the student intended to use the object as a weapon. Granting local school systems the authority to deal with these situations on a case-by-case basis will help prevent a student’s record and reputation from being tarnished with an offense that was actually an innocent mistake."

[thedeerslayer]

This state would be better off if there were more elected officials like Micah.

[its mr sarcastic to you]

Great news! Now maybe all this other stupid ass zero tolerance crap will start to sail right out the window along with it....

[cookies are sweet]

A baseball bat?

Again I say, A baseball bat??

 

Thank you for posting this and thank you to those who are trying to bring some common sense back.

(after all, common sense ain't that popular)

[Coppertop's Pop]

I'm glad this law passed.