Thursday, January 3, 2013
Family's lawyer tells local news outlets the school overreacted.
A 6-year-old boy was suspended from Roscoe Nix Elementary in Silver Spring for one day for making a hand gesture in the shape of a gun, aiming it at another student and saying "pow," local news outlets have reported. A Jan. 2 meeting on the suspension was scheduled, the Washington Examiner reports. "What they're doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation of a young, naive 6-year-old," Robin Ficker, the family's attorney, told the Examiner. "This is a little child who can't form the intent to do anything like that." Ficker told NBC4 the school overreacted because of the killing of 20 children and 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT. The school cited a previous incident where it alleged the boy threatened …
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Family's lawyer tells local news outlets the school overreacted.
A 6-year-old boy was suspended from Roscoe Nix Elementary in Silver Spring for one day for making a hand gesture in the shape of a gun, aiming it at another student and saying "pow," local news outlets have reported. A Jan. 2 meeting on the suspension was scheduled, the Washington Examiner reports. "What they're doing is looking at the worst possible interpretation of a young, naive 6-year-old," Robin Ficker, the family's attorney, told the Examiner. "This is a little child who can't form the intent to do anything like that." Ficker told NBC4 the school overreacted because of the killing of 20 children and 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT. In a letter sent home about the suspension, the school cited a previous …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin led a group of state lawmakers to increase funding for a school breakfast program.
Nearly every student at Roscoe Nix Elementary in Silver Spring eats a free and nutritionally balanced breakfast. Teachers serve hot meals in the classroom before the first bell instead of the usual busy cafeteria. It's an unconventional approach to feeding students, but one that lawmakers from Montgomery County hope will become the norm in more schools. Council member Valerie Ervin (D-Silver Spring) joined students and members of the Maryland General Assembly Wednesday to tout the success of the Maryland Meals for Achievement program at schools like Roscoe Nix. She penned a letter to Gov. Martin O'Malley and State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery that calls for an additional $1.8 million in funding to put the program in 130 …
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Jill Smith
12:21 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
School districts do not suspend students easily, and they do follow a set policy before doing so. This student violated the policy ,and it is unclear if there is a history of behavior and the history of the parents support in working with the district. While we would like to think that a 6 year old is not capable of violence, that is not always true now. The parents and the lawyer are free to … more ›