Okemos Public Schools Disciplinary Student Expulsion Hearing Record of /timothy Stewart Full Video 3

Описание: This is the third and final segment of the video recordings and record of the disciplinary expulsion hearing held before the Okemos School Board where the adminstration of the Okemos High School was seeking to have Timothy Stewart, a 16 year old Black sophomore student, expelled for alleged misconduct. The total duration of the hearing was from about 7 pm until 11 pm at night. The deliberation by the school board about the proposed expulsion was made in public before the student and his mother because the mother requested that the entire proceeding be public and therefore subject to the Michigan Open Meetings Act.

The student was represented by Howard Spence, Attorney at Law, who appeared as the student's advocate.

The result of the deliberation, which was not recorded due to the video equipment reaching its recording capacity, was that the Okemos School Board deadlocked 2-2 and the request by the Okemos High School administrator that the student be expelled was therefore denied.

Subsequent to the decision not to expel Tim Stewart, his mother withdrew him voluntarily from the Okemos School District and enrolled him in the Holt School District where he was better received and apparently able to function in an acceptable manner.

This video record in three parts was made to serve as an educational tool to illustrate the process for student expulsion hearings in Michigan and for training purposes for future student advocate volunteers.

The interest of the Greater Lansing Executive Board of the ACLU was to investigate and prevent abusive school disciplinary procedures which ultimately would lead to unnecessarily damaging the future of young minority and poor students thereby putting them in jeopardy of being lost to society as a part of the "School to Prison Pipeline." The Greater Lansing Executive Board of the ACLU, in conjunction with student advocacy groups at the MSU College of Law and other organizations, work together on projects to protect the due process and other rights of students in our public schools.