Alaska Middle and Elementary School Defense
Alaska's middle schools and elementary schools expect students to meet their student codes of conduct and academic and behavioral standards. If your Alaska middle school or elementary school student faces disciplinary charges, Alaska law may empower school officials to suspend or expel your student and remove your student to an alternative disciplinary school. Don't let your student suffer educational harm from discipline. The Lento Law Firm's premier Student Defense Team is available across Alaska to help you and your student defend elementary or middle school disciplinary charges. Call 888.535.3686 now or complete this contact form for representation by our skilled and experienced attorneys. Protect your student's education.
Alaska Middle and Elementary Schools
Alaska's extraordinarily beautiful and rugged natural environment can make a spectacular backdrop for your middle school or elementary school student's education. The state's public and private schools in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Badger, Knik-Fairview, College, North Lakes, Tanaina, Wasilla, Meadow Lakes, Sitka, Kalifornsky, Ketchikan, and other towns and settlements employ dedicated and skilled teachers. Alaska school districts like the Anchorage School District, Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Palmer, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District in Soldotna, Galena City School District, Juneau Borough School District, Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel, and Yukon-Koyukuk School District in Fairbanks can all offer appropriate and valuable educational services. Don't let your student suffer educational harm and setbacks due to disciplinary charges. Retain our attorneys for skilled representation.
Alaska Middle and Elementary School Discipline Authority
Alaska's state legislature has granted the state's school officials clear authority to discipline elementary and middle school students right up to suspension, expulsion, and disciplinary placement. For instance, Alaska Statute Section 14.03.160 mandates expulsion for possession of firearms and long-term suspension for possession of other weapons. Alaska Statute Section 14.30.045 similarly authorizes suspension for “continued willful disobedience,” behavior “inimical to the welfare, safety, or morals of other pupils,” and similar disciplinary grounds. If your student faces disciplinary charges in an Alaska middle or elementary school, let our attorneys help you and your student defend against those charges so that your student doesn't get kicked out of school and suffer all attendant harm.
Alaska Middle and Elementary School Discipline Grounds
Alaska's education statutes list multiple grounds on which your student's elementary or middle school officials could remove, suspend, or expel your student. Those disciplinary grounds include not only the above-mentioned weapons possession, willful disobedience, or conduct detrimental to other students but also bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, hazing, and intimidation under Alaska Statute Section 14.33.200, sexual assault, and other unsafe and disruptive conduct. Alaska Statute Section 14.33.120 requires the school to adopt a school disciplinary and safety program that may articulate other grounds for discipline, such as fighting, tobacco possession, alcohol possession, disrespectful or insubordinate behavior toward teachers, and other violations of the school's student code of conduct. Don't doubt the ability of school officials to identify statutory, regulatory, and policy authority to bring disciplinary charges against your student for any conduct that they believe violates their school customs, standards, and norms. Get our defense help against those charges.
Alaska Middle and Elementary Student Defense
When a parent faces a school disciplinary proceeding against their Alaska middle school or elementary school student, the parent is at a distinct disadvantage. The school's officials will know the law, rules, regulations, and procedures, while you very likely will not. The school's officials won't necessarily inform you of your student's due process and other rights when those rights may make all the difference in your student's successful outcome. Local lawyers, in general practice, may also lack the administrative knowledge, skill, and experience to advocate and negotiate effectively with school officials. Academic administrative matters are not court matters. The law, customs, and procedures all differ. Our attorneys know the administrative rules, customs, and conventions. We may be able to propose creative options that school officials will accept or may invoke the state's formal procedures on your student's behalf to contest the charges at a fair hearing before an independent decision-maker. Give your student a chance. Let us help provide any or all of the following defense services:
- notifying the school principal and district officials of our appearance on your student's behalf;
- requiring the school to disclose the specific disciplinary charges and any supporting evidence;
- gathering and presenting evidence that exonerates your student or mitigates any potential penalty;
- conducting informal conferences to negotiate early dismissal of all disciplinary charges;
- conducting formal hearings to challenge the school's evidence and present your student's contrary evidence;
- appealing adverse decisions so that your student gets a fair decision from higher authorities outside of the school;
- filing for court review in appropriate cases authorized under the state's administrative procedures act; and
- pursuing alternative special relief from the district's general counsel's office if you have already lost all hearings and appeals.
Alaska Middle and Elementary School Behavioral Misconduct
Alaska middle schools and elementary schools adopt student codes of conduct and school disciplinary safety plans, as required by the above-cited laws, rules, and regulations. Those plans typically list in some detail the various misbehaviors that could get your student in disciplinary trouble. Behavioral misconduct would generally include all the grounds listed above, like weapons, drugs, alcohol, or tobacco possession, fighting, hazing, intimidation, and harassment. However, the behaviors that school officials could suspend or expel your student for committing may also include vandalism, property theft, gang activity, and even vague behaviors labeled as disruptive or insubordinate. You've seen above that Alaska law authorizes discipline for the broad category of inimical conduct. Beware of disciplinary charges. Get our help.
Alaska Middle and Elementary School Academic Misconduct
Alaska middle and elementary schools are less likely to discipline for academic misconduct such as cheating on assignments and exams, plagiarism, and unauthorized collaboration, instead often treating academic misconduct as a learning issue. But they may still do so. School officials may especially suspend or expel your student for disrupting the classroom, failing courses by refusing to complete assignments and exams, excessive tardiness and absences, and violations of the state's truancy law. Beware of academic misconduct charges.
Alaska Middle and Elementary School Student Defense
Whether you are in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Badger, Knik-Fairview, College, North Lakes, Tanaina, Wasilla, Meadow Lakes, Sitka, Kalifornsky, Ketchikan, or another Alaska location, the Lento Law Firm's premier Student Defense Team is available to help your middle school or elementary school student defend misconduct charges. Call 888.535.3686 now to tell us about your student's case, or complete this contact form.
