Thomas Mickes and Natalie Hoernschemeyer obtained a victory from the Missouri Supreme Court this term in one of the few school cases that came before the high court. Tom and Natalie successfully represented Central R-3 School District regarding a legal dispute over...
Published by MOASBO, September/November 2009 The Special Education Student Substantially Likely to Cause Injury Johnny B. Goode, we’ll just call him J.G., is on his way to the Principal’s office. He is being escorted by the school' Resource Officer and a male teacher....
Published by MARE, Fall 2009 Bill Cosby hosted the hit TV show “Kids Say the Darndest Things” in the late 1990s. The premise of the show was that the host, Cosby, would ask a question to a child who would then usually respond in a “cute” way. While high school...
Published by MOASBO, September/November 2010 Re-examining the Scope of your District’s PAT Program Your school district’s Parents as Teachers (“PAT”) Program is sometimes the first contact young families have with the district. The PAT program is a wonderful way to...
Published by MOASBO, July/August 2009 Schools are facing situations where anonymous students harass, defame or publicly humiliate educators by using web sites, such as MySpace or Facebook, with increasing frequency. Many of these situations have resulted in legal...
Published by MARE, June 2009 “Missouri School Children Placed In Padded Seclusion Rooms” “Parents of Disabled Students Say Metro District is Mistreating Their Kids” These are just two of the many headlines involving the use of seclusion and/or restraint in schools...
Published by MARE, March 2009 You have seen it before: a parent is upset at the way their child’s coach is coaching, and they let him know about it. They yell and scream, threaten the coach, disrupt the game, and in your opinion, go too far. This is not the first time...
Published by MOASBO, March/April 2009 On January 29, 2009, during his first official week at work, President Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (“Ledbetter Act”). The Ledbetter Act amends the discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil...
Published by MOASBO, January/February 2009 On November 17, 2008, the U.S. Department of Labor, published a revised set of regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”). These revisions represent the first significant modifications to the FMLA...
