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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Ind. Courts - "Sending badly behaving kids to court"
WTWO Terre Haute reported yesterday:
A new program at one valley school is sending badly behaving kids to court!It`s the "Courthouse Suspension Program" at Riverton Parke Junior/Senior High School.
Students who get suspended must now appear in a the Parke County courtroom with their parents and do their time in the grand jury room.
The program is already making an impact.
"I think the kids will take their suspensions pretty seriously knowing that this program is in affect," says Parke County Judge Sam Swaim.
"It scares me," says Riverton Parke Senior Ashley Craft, "Even though I don`t really do anything to get in trouble, it still scares me!"
"We are all in this together," says School Superintendent Leonard Orr, "[we`re]trying to do what we can to help kids get through school."
Orr modeled program after one he participated in up in Fountain County. One middle school there saw it`s numbers of suspensions decrease dramatically after the program had been put in place.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 23, 2006 06:52 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts