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CAS Legal Mailbag – 5/21/26
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag,
As a middle school assistant principal in a district with a great number and variety
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 5/14/26
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Deal Legal Mailbag:
As a high school administrator, we regularly encounter situations involving seniors who have recently turned
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See You In Court – May 2026
After a contentious budget process, the Nutmeg Board of Education finally has its appropriation for the coming fiscal year. Sadly, however, the appropriation recommended by the
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 4/30/26
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag,
We have a mother demanding to see school security footage from an incident in which
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 4/23/26
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Dear Legal Mailbag:
I read with interest your answer to TikTok’ed Off a couple of weeks ago about
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 4/16/26
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Dear Legal Mailbag:
As a middle school principal, I especially enjoy and learn from your CAS Legal Mailbag
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 4/9/26
Dear Legal Mailbag:
It’s that time of year again, when student behavior starts to increase and teachers are struggling more to manage classes. Yesterday, a parent
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See You in Court – April 2026
With the arrival of spring, misbehavior by students in Nutmeg has escalated. For example, Joe Blow, a sophomore at Nutmeg Memorial High School, was caught on
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 4/2/26
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag:
As you can imagine, personnel issues are a frequent challenge for school principals like me.
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 3/19/26
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter
Dear Legal Mailbag,
We have a student whose dad has sole custody. The courts recently granted mom the
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CAS Legal Mailbag – 3/12/26
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Dear Legal Mailbag:
I am the principal of an elementary school in a town that has one thing
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