Title
GCU wk3 Homework: Zero Tolerance Case Analysis and Rational
Zero Tolerance Case Analysis and Rationale
As a principal, you will be expected to make numerous sound and moral legal decisions regarding student rights in the school setting. Examples of such student right issues include freedom of speech, locker and backpack searches, personal privacy, and due process for students with exceptionalities. A principal must act with integrity and fairness to ensure the school system is held accountable for every students academic and social success. To be an effective leader and decisionmaker on such issues, the principal should be familiar with cases that specifically speak to student rights in the educational arena.
Part 1: Case Analysis
Using the Case Analysis Template, address each step of the decisionmaking model to render a decision for Case 14.
Part 2: Rationale
Support the case analysis with a 750-word rationale explaining the decisions you made and how those decisions:
Support the schools vision and mission and safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity.
Promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling.
Promote collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations.
Cite the case and any other source documents as appropriate.
APA format is required, solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric.
1. Case Analysis 1-3 (10) Analysis skillfully and convincingly summarizes the case, identifies the issues to be resolved, and identifies the stakeholders involved in the issues.
2. Case Analysis 4-5 (10) Identifies compelling existing Laws for Court Rulings & District Policies related to the issues.
3. Case Analysis 6-8 (20) Identifies exceptional possible solutions to the issues and insightfully selects the ideal solutions. Action steps and timeline are thoughtful and realistic.
4. Case Analysis 9 (10) Moral and legal consequences of proposed solutions are thorough and proficiently explained.
5. Rational (30) Rationale compellingly explains how the proposed solutions support the schools vision and mission while safeguarding the values of democracy, equity, and diversity within the school; skillfully promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling; and promote collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations.
6. Organization (5) The content is well organized and logical. There is a sequential progression of ideas related to each other. The content is presented as a cohesive unit. Provides the audience with a clear sense of the main idea.
7. Document Sources (5) Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.
8. Mechanics. (10) Submission is virtually free of mechanical errors. Word choice reflects well developed use of practice and content-related language. Sentence structures are varied and engaging.
=(100%)
Case 14: Carterville Unified School District was composed of various ethnic groups. Rancho Elementary School was considered the best Elementary in the district. Under the direction of the district superintendent and school board, the school district adopted a zero tolerance for truancies from school, for weapons of any kind, for physical assaults, and for sexual harassment. The superintendent advised all principals to include the zero-tolerance policy in their respective school plans and to distribute copies of the revised school plans to the parents of every student at each school site.
The principal of Rancho Elementary appointed Ms. Idleman, a fifth-grade teacher, to be in charge of developing the school plan. On the day Ms. Idlemans committee completed the school plan and forwarded it to the office for approval, the principal was away at a conference. Ms. Boxer, the assistant principal who was tenured in the district, was is charge. She served on the school plan committee. She approved the plan in absence of the principal, and instructed the school clerk to duplicate the school plan and send a copy home with each one of the students at the end of the school day.
A few days late, Mr. Idleman was teaching a unit to her students that focused on historical structures in Littletown. She developed a lesson plan that required the students to conduct research on Littletown and prepare reports that were to be presented to the class. Becky Skutter was the last student to present her report to the class. Following her presentation, Becky reached for a paper bag that she had brought with her and removed what looked like an old handgun. She informed the class that her father had found the item in the attic when he was renovating their Victorian home. Beckys father believed the pistol was from the 19th century and was brought over from England at the turn of the century. When Mr. Idleman saw the pistol, she quietly instructed Becky to place the item back in the paper bag and hand it over to her. Ms. Idleman informed Becky that she would return the handgun to her at the end of the school day. As promised, Ms. Idleman returned the pistol to Becky and instructed her to keep the pistol in the paper bag and return it to her father. Becky received an A grade for her report. On the following day, one of the parents of a student in Ms. Idlemans class contacted the principal and demanded that something be done with the student who brought the gun to school. The parent was angry and said that she planned to contact the superintendent and the local newspaper and other parents of the children in the class.
Zero Tolerance Case Analysis and Rationale Template
Part 1: Case Analysis
1. Brief summary of the case:
2. Identify the issues to be resolved:
3. Stakeholders involved in the issues:
4. One or two existing laws or court rulings that relate to the issues:
5. District policies that relate to the issues:
6. Possible solutions to the issues:
7. The solutions you are choosing to resolve the issues:
8. Action steps (2-5) for implementing your solution, including a timeline for each step:
9. Potential moral and legal consequences of the solutions:
Part 2: Rationale
Support the case analysis with a 750-word rationale explaining the decisions you made and
how those decisions:
Support the schools vision and mission and safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity.
Promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling
Promote collaboration, trust, learning and high expectations.
Cite the case and any other source documents as appropriate.
United States v. Lopez | Oyez https://www.oyez.org cases
Read “Spare the Rod,” by Winter, located on the American Public Media website (2016).
URL:
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2016/08/25/reforming-school-discipline
1.
