Is your K-12 or college student struggling with behavioral allegations at their Greensboro or High Point-area school?
It's surreal to come home, open your mail, and find a notice that your student has been suspended. Especially if it's an out-of-the-blue sanction. Unfortunately, exclusionary discipline is happening more and more frequently as schools crack down on misconduct.
This can lead to lifelong consequences for your student. The moment you learn that your student is associated with an allegation of misconduct or your student's teachers tell you they're dissatisfied with your student's progress, you need to get in touch with Joseph D. Lento.
Joseph D. Lento is a premier education defense attorney-advisor. He provides skilled negotiation, defense, and representation services to students across the nation. Whether your student requires assistance with an appeal, help with a lawsuit, or support as they navigate being the center of a school investigation, Joseph D. Lento is the attorney-advisor to call.
Why Does My Greensboro or High Point Student Require a Defense?
If this is the first time your student has been in trouble with their school, calling an attorney-advisor may seem like an unnecessary escalation.
It isn't. School investigations can become very serious, very quickly. Often, by the time a school completes its investigation, the administrators and people who will be making decisions regarding your student's responsibility for alleged infractions have already made up their minds.
You need to make sure that you're working with Joseph D. Lento as quickly as possible after you learn that your student is in an adversarial position with their school. Joseph D. Lento can help you uncover evidence exonerating your student, keep your school from infringing upon your student's privacy, hold your school to its own due process policies, and more. That way, your student will stand a much higher chance of walking out of their misconduct experience with their head held high.
The alternative is not something you want to think about. You've invested a lot of time, money, and energy into your student's schooling. And you've done so in the Greensboro or High Point areas in North Carolina — highly-populated cities with highly-ranked, often-competitive schools.
Joseph D. Lento Can Help Your Greensboro or High Point Student Protect Their Future
A great school can be a very difficult place to be a student. After all, your student is under a lot of pressure from their school. If your student (allegedly) fails to measure up or is accused of inappropriate behavior by another student, your school could be swift to judge and sanction without necessarily making sure that the allegations hold any weight.
If your student receives a suspension or a dismissal, that will make it onto their permanent record. Anyone who sees that record in the future (such as a prospective employer or a future college admissions board) will see that your student was involved in a disciplinary offense. As a result, your student will probably miss out on an opportunity they would have otherwise deserved.
This can follow them for years of their life. Even if your child is only in elementary or middle school now, they could have a hard time getting into their dream college or even starting their career.
Retain the services of expert education attorney-advisor Joseph D. Lento today to avoid this outcome and work towards your student's best chance of success.
Greensboro and High Point Metro Area Schools
Joseph D. Lento, premier education and student defense, is ready to assist you and your student during this frustrating time. Joseph D. Lento and the team at the Lento Law Firm have been able to provide successful defense, representation, and negotiation services to families at the following non-exhaustive list of Greensboro and High Point schools, colleges, and universities:
Colleges and Universities in the Greensboro and High Point Areas
- Franklin University
- Salem College
- High Point University
- South University High Point
- Greensboro College
- Carolina University
- Guilford College
- Bennett College
- North Carolina A&T University
- Winston-Salem State University
- University of North Carolina School of the Arts
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
School Districts in the Greensboro and High Point Areas
- Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools
- Davie County Schools
- Guilford County Schools
- Davidson County Schools
- Randolph County School System
- Yadkin County Schools
- Asheboro City Schools
- Stokes County Schools
- Alamance-Burlington Schools
- Rockingham County Schools
- Rowan-Salisbury Schools
- Lexington City Schools
- Thomasville City Schools
K-12 Schools in the Greensboro and High Point Areas
- The Early College at Guilford
- Salem Academy
- Greensboro Day School
- STEM Early College at NC A&T
- Easy College of Forsyth
- Philip J. Weaver Education Center
- Greensboro Academy
- Summerfield Charter Academy
- Caldwell Academy
- Westchester Country Day School
- Calvary Day School
- UNCG Early/Middle College
- The Arts Based School
- Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School
- New Garden Friends School
- Wesleyan Christian Academy
- Randolph Early College High School
- Phoenix Academy
- Brown Summit Middle School
- Cornerstone Charter Academy
If you do not see your student's school listed above, please reach out to the Lento Law Firm anyway. Joseph D. Lento and the experts at the Lento Law Firm are pleased to provide winning defense and representation to students at many Greensboro and High Point academic institutions.
Now that we've covered where Joseph D. Lento can provide assistance, let's discuss why. If your student is facing academic progression issues, academic integrity allegations, behavioral concerns, or any other sticky situation at their school, it's time to give Joseph D. Lento a call.
Consider the following academic issues and concerns.
Academic Progression Issues and Greensboro or High Point Schools
Your student's school is in the business of educating its students.
It's also in the business of guiding students through to graduation and enrolling more students to take their place. This means that your school has a certain reputation to uphold. This means that your school expects your students to meet a certain standard of academic performance or progression.
If your student doesn't meet this standard, your student could be in jeopardy of receiving unwanted attention and unfair sanctions from your school. An allegation from one of your student's teachers that they're not progressing as expected is, therefore, a very serious thing.
However, it's not always completely merited. Educators often make these assessments based on incomplete or false information, such as grading records that can be riddled with mistakes. “Failure to progress” reports are often issued, too, without considering the full context of the situation. For example, if a student was going through a difficult time during the semester they allegedly failed to progress, the student may have the basis for a successful appeal.
In order to take full advantage of these strategies, you need seasoned education defense attorney Joseph D. Lento at your side. Call him today to protect your student's schooling and their academic future.
Academic Misconduct Allegations and Greensboro or High Point Schools
Distinct from “failure to progress” allegations are academic misconduct concerns. Also known as “academic integrity issues”, academic misconduct allegations tend to center around actions prohibited by school honor codes.
Let's take a look at the University of North Carolina honor code, which contains the following language:
“The Honor Code embodies the ideals of academic honesty, integrity, and responsible citizenship, and governs the performance of all academic work a student conducts at the University.”
Actions deemed not academically responsible or honest are usually punishable under academic misconduct. Examples of these actions include:
- Cheating
- Plagiarism
- Sabotage
- Fabrication of data
- Unauthorized collaboration
- Unauthorized access of school materials (e.g., exam keys)
Check your own school's documentation to see if there are unique punishable actions under this category. For example, some schools may consider classroom disruption punishable in this category.
If your teacher or another student alleges you (or your student) has cheated on an assignment, it can be very difficult to recover. To make sure that your academic reputation is not tarnished by an unfair or taken-out-of-context academic concern, talk to Joseph D. Lento to discover your best options.
Behavioral Misconduct and Greensboro or High Point Schools
Aside from educating Greensboro and High Point students, your school has a secondary mission: Keeping its academic community safe.
This is a laudable (and necessary) goal.
If you look through your school's code of conduct, you should find an extensive list of the behaviors that your school considers unsafe, inappropriate, or not in line with expectations for its students.
It's always a good idea to check your school's own documentation, as some of the punishable behaviors at your school could be unique to your community. Common inclusions in these lists are:
- Bullying
- Cyberbullying
- Destruction of school property
- Threatening other students
- Having weapons on campus
- Having drugs on campus
- Acting in any way that endangers another student
- Exhibiting violence on campus
- Refusing to follow directions from an educator or administrator (within reason)
If your student is associated with one or more of these behaviors, your school will likely try to suspend or even dismiss them. This may or may not be a fair response to the allegations made against your student.
To make sure that you can pursue every available option to avoid long-term consequences for your student, call Joseph D. Lento and the education team at the Lento Law Firm today.
Title IX or Sexual Misconduct Issues and Greensboro or High Point Schools
Sexual misconduct is a special subsection of behavioral misconduct. At many schools, sexual misconduct policies overlap significantly with Title IX policies, which can influence the way your school responds to any allegations made against your student.
Title IX is a law that governs how schools must respond to sexual misconduct allegations. In order to retain eligibility for federal funding, schools need to respond to these allegations in a timely manner.
This provides a very real incentive for schools to provide overly-harsh sanctions to relatively unsupported claims of sexual misconduct.
This is especially relevant when you consider the fact that many sexual misconduct allegations aren't exactly filed for fair reasons. Much of the time, these allegations are filed as a mistake — or because someone has misread a situation, or failed to communicate perhaps as clearly as they should have. Yet because of these false or unfair allegations, your student could be at risk of ruining their reputation. Being associated with any type of sexual misconduct, from harassment to violence, stalking, or even lewd jokes and inappropriate suggestions, can make it very difficult for prospective employers and college admissions boards to consider your student as a serious candidate.
Don't let a mistake or misunderstanding cost your student their future. Reach out to Joseph D. Lento today to start moving towards the best possible outcome.
Students in Greensboro-High Point: Retain Joseph D. Lento, Education Attorney-Advisor
Reaching out for expert education defense is one of the best possible things you can do to safeguard your student's future.
It may not seem like it, but your student is attending school during a difficult time to be a student. Schools in the Greensboro and High Point areas are issuing increasingly severe sanctions to their students. Sometimes, these sanctions are based on unsupported or unfair allegations. As a result, these Greensboro and High Point students are facing irreversible damage to their reputations.
You need to make sure that this doesn't happen to your child. By working with attorney Joseph D. Lento and the education defense team at the Lento Law Firm, you can help your student move past tricky situations at their school without undue consequences. Joseph D. Lento and his team of student defense experts have years of experience negotiating with schools in the Greensboro and High Point area. Now, they're ready to help you and your student. Reach out to us today by calling 888.535.3686.
