As a faithful reader of Legal Mailbag, I was interested to read last week that parents have the right to ask that school records be amended and can even demand a hearing if school officials do not grant the parent's request.
As the principal of an elementary school, I have been getting a bunch of questions from parents who are sending their children to kindergarten next month.
With the teacher shortage this year, we struggled to fill the vacancies we confronted. We did our best in hiring teachers by the beginning of the new school year, but sometimes our best was not good enough.
I am a middle school principal and I have been a building administrator for seventeen years now. My experiences dealing with student behaviors have been rich and varied, and like many educators.