Is your student facing unexpected challenges at their Boise City school?
This may feel surprising. When you sent your student to their college, university, or K-12 academic institution in Boise City, allegations of misconduct or strongly-worded notices from your school were not exactly top of mind.
Unfortunately, making it to graduation in today's academic atmosphere can be much more challenging than you might think. Your Boise City school has a mission to educate your student. More often than not, this leads schools to place incredible demands on students. The pressurized environments common in today's schools can lead students to file allegations against each other, teachers to make typos on student records (and then file concerns because of those typos), and steamroll over student rights during complex disciplinary procedures.
The entire experience can be wildly stressful — and if your student ends up with a sanction, fair or not, their reputation could be ruined. It could even be difficult for your student to gain admission to their dream college or land a great job later in life!
To make sure this doesn't happen, you must take action now. Retain the services of premier education defense attorney Joseph D. Lento to start working towards the best possible outcome today.
Why Is Education Defense Necessary in the Boise City Metro Area?
Boise is the capital of the state of Idaho, and its most populous city. It's ideally situated on the Boise River, and it's close to both the Oregon and Nevada borders. Its metro area — which covers Boise but extends to the nearby cities of Nampa and Meridian — is often referred to as the “Treasure Valley.” It's a great place to live, and young professionals and families alike flock from all over the nation to live in this area.
This means that the existing schools have a lot of young students enrolled. And this, consequently, can result in a ton of competition among the students (and also lead to a lot of overwhelmed educators.)
A strained school system can be a dangerous place to be for a student. As your student is navigating peer relationships (perhaps for the first time, if they're younger) or working with their educators to get into their dream college, they may not be able to rely on their school for the support they require and deserve. And, when interpersonal or academic issues arise, your school may not have the capacity to thoroughly investigate any allegations made. This can result in unfair allegations, inappropriate sanctions, and times when your student misses out on school due to no fault of their own.
Joseph D. Lento Can Help Your Student Protect Their Future
School disciplinary issues can spiral out of control far more quickly than you may think. By the time a school has completed its investigation, the administrators who will be deciding responsibility in your student's case may have already made their decision.
By working with Joseph D. Lento, an experienced education defense attorney, you can head off many unwanted outcomes of student discipline. For example, you and your student can work with Joseph D. Lento to help control how much information gets beyond your school's administration in the early stages of your school's disciplinary process so your student's reputation isn't damaged more than necessary while your school is determining how to proceed. If your school does decide to slap your student with a sanction, Joseph D. Lento can help guide you through the appeals process with persuasive arguments. He can even negotiate directly with your school's office of general counsel on your student's behalf — a type of lawyer-to-lawyer intervention that is very often successful. Finally, if need be, Joseph D. Lento can help your family as you pursue further legal action if your case requires it.
When you're working to protect your student, you need to be proactive, and you need to achieve peace of mind for your entire family. That's why you turn to Joseph D. Lento and the education defense experts at the Lento Law Firm during this stressful time.
In this guide, we'll discuss some of the Boise City schools at which Joseph D. Lento can assist your student. Then, we'll provide an overview of the different types of misconduct and academic progression issues that your school may decide to punish.
Boise City Metro Area Schools
Premier education defense attorney Joseph D. Lento and the education defense team at the Lento Law Firm are ready to help you and your student move past the charges you're facing at your Boise City area school. The team can be available to assist regardless of your school's specific location within the metro area or even level of education. For years, Joseph D. Lento has provided winning defense, negotiation, and representation services to Boise City students at the following colleges and universities, to name a few:
- Franklin University
- Stevens-Henager College
- Northwest Nazarene University
- Boise Bible College
- Boise State University
The Lento Law Firm is also pleased to provide services across the following Boise City school districts:
- Boise Independent School District
- West Ada School District
- Parma School District
- Adrian School District
- Vallivue School District
- Middleton School District
- Horseshoe Bend School District
- Melba Joint School District
- Marsing Joint School District
- New Plymouth School District
- Fruitland School District
Finally, Joseph D. Lento and his award-winning education defense team at the Lento Law Firm can assist with negotiation and representation services at the following area elementary, middle, and high schools:
- Falcon Ridge Public Charter School
- Liberty Charter School
- Collister Elementary School
- Sage International Charter School
- Longfellow Elementary School
- Roosevelt Elementary School
- Highlands Elementary School
- Thomas Jefferson Charter School
- Riverside Elementary School
- Discovery Elementary School
- Riverstone International School
- Challenger School
- Bishop Kelly High School
- Boise Valley Adventist School
- Calvary Christian School
- Cole Valley Christian School
- Sacred Heart Catholic School
- North Star Charter School
- Renaissance High School
- Boise Senior High School
- Timberline High School
- Eagle High School
- Rocky Mountain High School
If your student attends any of these or other Boise City area schools, you need the number of Joseph D. Lento, education attorney-advisor — just in case any of the following academic issues and concerns arise.
How Do Boise City Schools Handle Academic Progression Issues?
Your student's professors have certain expectations that your students need to meet, or your students may see trouble from your school. For example, if your student doesn't post grades above a minimum threshold or pass courses in a reasonable timeframe, your school could decide to take disciplinary action.
This is because your Boise City school educates students and needs to see them graduate. This is important for the types of statistics that help more young families choose schools (and for federal financial aid). If your student isn't meeting your school's minimum academic standards, your school could suspend or dismiss your student.
The thing is, schools determine whether students are allegedly failing to progress based on internal documentation and that internal documentation isn't always correct. Administrators make mistakes interpreting records all the time, and teachers make typos when entering grades. If your student is facing a suspension because one of their educators alleged that they were failing to progress, get Joseph D. Lento on the case.
Which Academic Misconduct Allegations Result in Severe Sanctions?
Does your Boise City college, university, or K12 school have an honor code? As one of your school's primary goals is to educate its students fairly, there's a good chance that your school will have some stated academic honor pledge or integrity statement that all students must promise to uphold.
Academic misconduct or academic integrity issues, as opposed to failure to progress allegations, are largely those that directly conflict with a school's honor code. If your school does not have an explicit honor code, your school's code of conduct should itemize punishable behaviors. Common inclusions in academic misconduct policies are:
- Cheating
- Plagiarism
- Unauthorized collaboration
- Multiple submission
- Sabotage
- Unauthorized access of exam materials
Schools tend to punish perceived cheating, plagiarism, and similar offenses harshly. However, sanctions may not always be the most appropriate action, especially if your school hasn't actually demonstrated that your student is responsible for the problematic behavior. Joseph D. Lento can help you hold your school responsible to its own standards. Retain his services the moment an academic misconduct investigation seems to be in your child's future.
Will My Boise City School Punish Behavioral Misconduct?
In addition to academic misconduct, your school will likely spell out several behavioral issues that could lead to sanctions. Your school will identify and punish these actions in order to maintain an orderly, safe environment in your Boise City academic community.
It's a laudable goal, but often, investigating allegations of behavioral misconduct doesn't actually lead to finding out who's responsible for the punishable action. Other times, students who acted out did so because they were under a lot of pressure or had a good reason to engage in the alleged behavior. Their rationale often mitigates the need for a severe sanction, but school officials may not take their story into account.
Actions that may result in allegations of behavioral misconduct can include:
- Fighting with other students (or professors)
- Any type of bullying
- Threatening another student
- Having weapons or drugs on the school premises
- Being disruptive in a classroom environment
- Endangering other students
- Stealing from other students (or the school)
- Misusing computers
If your student is facing an allegation of any of these or other behavioral concerns, retain attorney-advisor Joseph D. Lento to protect your child's education.
The Title IX or Sexual Misconduct Issues Your Student May Face
Under Title IX — one of the Education Amendments of 1972 — all schools that receive public funding must punish, prevent, and prohibit sexual assault and violence or risk losing that funding. At some schools, the list of punishable actions is widened from specific assault and harassment to other types of sexual misconduct. Check your school's policy; it could include anything from solicitation of prostitution to invading privacy.
If your student is associated with a sexual misconduct case, that can be extremely difficult for them to overcome. Many schools and future employers will dismiss your student as a candidate for admission (or employment) once they learn about this part of your student's past, whether the allegations were fair or not.
Unfortunately, you cannot count on your school to thoroughly and fairly investigate sexual misconduct allegations. And, much of the time, sexual misconduct allegations aren't actually true. For example, one student might file an allegation against another as the result of a misunderstanding.
Joseph D. Lento has experience helping students defeat Title IX and sexual misconduct charges. Reach out to the offices of the Lento Law Firm today to learn more about the ways we can support you.
Retain Joseph D. Lento, Education Attorney-Advisor, Today
If your student in Boise City, ID, is facing any of these academic issues and concerns, don't delay in finding an appropriate legal solution. Joseph D. Lento has years of specific expertise negotiating with schools and protecting students who face sticky situations with their Boise City schools.
Whether your student is struggling to progress as quickly as their teachers expect or is facing academic or disciplinary charges, you need to make sure that their school doesn't ignore their rights. These types of charges and the associated sanctions can easily jeopardize your student's entire future.
Don't be tempted to work with a local criminal defense attorney — their unqualified assistance and lack of experience with school-related defense can harm your student's case. Instead, work with Joseph D. Lento and the education defense team at the Lento Law Firm. Call us today at 888.535.3686, or contact us online for a timely response.
