High school after juvenile detention

[rachel_riot90]

What would the process be for a 16 year old boy, recently released on probabtion from juvenile detention in Ohio, to enroll in a new high school? He was expelled from his old school so it has to be a new school. Would it be his probabtion officer or his parents who had the responsibility for finding him a place? And what questions might the new

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[laurie_ky]

In Tennessee, kids who are expelled under zero tolerance laws cannot enroll back in public school, even another county's schools, until the time is up.
And one boy who moved several states away to live with his brother and was going to be enrolled at a military base school was denied admittance when his records from his old school were sent.

zero tolerance laws are drug and or violence related. A student can be expelled for a year, unless they are in special education. Then the school had to accomadate them either with home bound education or something like alternative school or ISS. It's considered a change of placement if the term is longer than ten days.

I don't know for sure about Ohio, but whenever inquiries were made to send students to a different state, they were refused.

So it might be that your kid needs to be expelled for doing something that doesn't fall under zero tolerance laws, maybe then then could be enrolled elsewhere.

Laurie

[ladyanne04]

I can't speak specifically for Ohio, but generally in education discipline statutes a student who is expelled no longer has the right to attend public school. Expulsion is the most serious consequence of student discipline and reserved for the most serious offenses. However many states do provide a process where the student, after a certain length of time, like a year, may apply to the school board to be readmitted to the school system. This is usually discretionary, however - the school does not have to take the student back. It's common for laws to permit expulsion from one school system to be grounds to deny admission for a student in other school systems as well

[lady_whitehaven]

My brother came within inches of getting expelled (in Pennsylvania). Had it actually happened, he would have had to enroll in an alternative school (My parents called it that--I'm not sure if there's an actual name.) It was not known for its academic rigor.

Other alternatives included a local Catholic school (they didn't really want to take him) and dropping out, getting a GED, and starting college a year early. (The college I attended was willing to take him, provided he got a decent grade on the GED and could pay the full tuition.)

[cheshire23]

I don't know how the Ohio laws work, but in New York what usually happens to an "expelled" or "long-term suspended" student is reassignment to an alternative school. I can't remember what they're officially called but I've heard them referred to as "suspension schools".

Also in NY, a kid who was in juvenile detention might be stepped down from there to a residential treatment center with an on-campus school. Some of those schools are considered full-fledged public high schools and can take both residential and day/commuter students, so if he was released in that kind of situation, lived at the school for a little while and then went home to start attending as a day school, that would be a possible option.

Also, you might want to try Google for "discharge plan" or "transition plan" since at least in theory kids are supposed to have one when they leave a juvenile center and not just be dumped back out with no plan.