"Scott L" wrote in message
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Over the weekend, at a neighborhood party, I learned that
4 of DD's classmates had been suspended, and maybe expelled
for smoking pot in the boys' room (during the last class
period!). If such a thing happened in your kid's school,
would you expect some kind of notification from the
principal alerting you to what had happened? (This is
7th grade, by the way). DD said it's been the talk of the
school, among her classmates. I guess I'd like to have
heard something from the administration, not from a
parent whose kid happened to mention something.

Scott DD 12 and DS 10

No, I would not expect the school to send out notifications. I would expect
that the school would send out notices if there was an outbreak of serious
illness or safety issues. However, I would not expect to school to send out
a notice that a seventh grader was smoking pot.

Some schools are required to publish summary statistics about things like
suspensions,vandalism and assaults, however. All NYC schools do this.

Jeff