When a high school student in Idaho is accused of academic misconduct, it can have a dramatic effect on your child's ability to attend the college or university of their choice. Academic misconduct charges can include cheating on an exam, using unauthorized internet resources, plagiarism, cheating on the College Boards, the SAT, SAT subject matter exams, AP exams. It is crucial that your high school student is afforded their due process rights, that the charges are clearly defined, that the process used to investigate the charges is fair and that any resolution or sanction is proportionate and appropriate to the offense.
In particular, dealing with the college boards requires a detailed understanding of the process to achieve the best possible outcome. The college boards takes misconduct extremely seriously and often acts with a heavy hand in imposing sanctions.
An experienced attorney advisor will be your high school student's best ally to defend against academic misconduct charges and they should be involved in as early as possible in the case.
Idaho high schools where Joseph D. Lento can help as your child's student's academic misconduct advisor during investigations, hearings and appeals include, but are not limited to, the following school districts:
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- Aberdeen School District
- American Falls School District
B
- Bear Lake School District
- Blackfoot School District
- Blaine County School District
- Bliss Joint School District
- Boise School District
- Bonneville Joint School District
- Boundary County School District
- Buhl Joint School District
- Butte County Joint School District
C
- Caldwell School District
- Cascade School District
- Cassia Joint School District
- Challis Joint School District
- Coeur d'Alene Public Schools
- Cottonwood Joint School District
- Culdesac Joint School District
D
- Dietrich School District
E
- Emmett Independent School District
F
- Filer School District
- Firth School District
- Fremont County Joint School District
- Fruitland School District
G
- Garden Valley School District
- Genesee Joint School District
- Glenns Ferry School District, Idaho
- Gooding Joint School District
- Grace School District
- Grangeville Joint School District
H
- Highland School District
- Homedale Joint School District
I
- Idaho Falls School District
J
- Jefferson School District
- Jerome School District
- Joint School District
K
- Kamiah Joint School District
- Kellogg Joint School District
- Kimberly School District
- Kootenai School District
- Kuna School District
L
- Lake Pend Oreille School District
- Lakeland Joint School District
- Lewiston Independent School District
M
- Madison School District
- Marsh Valley Joint School District
- McCall-Donnelly Joint School District
- Melba School District
- Meridian School District
- Middleton School District
- Midvale School District
- Minidoka County School District
- Moscow School District
- Mountain Home School District
- Mullan School District
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- Nampa School District
- New Plymouth School District
- North Gem School District
O
- Oneida School District
- Orofino Joint School District
P
- Parma School District
- Plummer-Worley School District
- Pocatello-Chubbuck School District
- Post Falls School District
- Potlatch School District
- Preston School District
R
- Ririe School District
- Rockland School District
M
- Maries School District
- Salmon School District
- Shelley School District
- Shoshone Joint School District
- Snake River School District
- Soda Springs Joint School District
- South Lemhi School District
- Sugar-Salem School District
T
- Teton County School District
- Troy School District
- Twin Falls School District
V
- Valley School District
- Vallivue School District
W
- Wallace School District
- Weiser School District
- Wendell School District
- West Bonner County School District
- West Jefferson School District
- West Side Joint School District
- Whitepine School District
- Wilder School District
It is critical to make certain academic misconduct charges at your child's Idaho high school are handled properly and that the accused student's interests and rights are protected from as early as possible during the investigative and disciplinary process. One reason, among many, is because even at high schools where a finding of responsibility for academic misconduct is made at a hearing, the investigation will set the stage for what the hearing panel is provided prior to a hearing (and what the hearing panel will in large part rely on at a hearing), and at high schools where the finding of responsibility is made solely through the investigative process, what takes place during the investigation itself will determine whether the accused student is found responsible or not responsible for academic misconduct.
Unfortunately, some parents make the mistake of not taking the necessary precautions as soon as possible when their child is accused of academic misconduct. Some people will mistakenly believe that if they "just explain what happened," their school will be fair and impartial and will arrive at the truth. In a perfect world this may be the case, but in a perfect world, being called to answer for alleged academic misconduct would not exist.
Fighting passionately for the future of his clients at schools throughout the nation for many years, Joseph D. Lento knows how important it is to mount the strongest defense because he understands that an accused high school student's academic future is on the line. He does not settle for the easiest outcome, and instead prioritizes his clients' needs and well-being. Joseph Lento is a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, is admitted as an attorney pro hac vice in state and federal court if needed when representing clients nationwide, and serves as an academic misconduct advisor to high school students facing investigations and disciplinary cases in Idaho and throughout the nation. Make certain your or your student's interests are protected - Contact National High School Academic Misconduct Defense Attorney Joseph D. Lento today at 888-535-3686.
