28 | Marijuana Crumbs and Denial of Academic Credit

Can a school deny academic credit as part of school discipline for work that has already been completed? How far does a school’s authority go? At what point during the semester should you play it safe and leave your marijuana at home? In this episode, we go back to South Gibson High School in Indiana in 1998, where a zero-tolerance drug policy set off a chain of events that sparked a pretty interesting legal battle with some fascinating implications. We have a student who got caught with marijuana crumbs in his truck and was expelled in the last few days of the fall semester of his junior year. As part of the expulsion, the school denied the student academic credit for the entire fall semester, even though he only had 3 days left when he was expelled and otherwise would have passed some of his courses. This is the case of South Gibson School Board v. Sollman. We also discuss a recent report about potential racial bias in AI detectors. --- We're building a Teaching Guide! You can check it out at our website, ChalkandGavel.com. We'd also greatly appreciate it if you would consider supporting Chalk and Gavel by becoming a subscriber on Patreon. Your support will help us keep delivering the education law content you want to hear! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/chalkandgavel If you crave more education law content and want to meet other folks who share your passions, we encourage you to check out the Education Law Association! ELA's annual conference is coming up on November 6-9 in sunny Orlando, Florida. Find more information at https://www.educationlaw.org/ --- Keywords: Student Discipline, Search and Seizure, Illegal Drugs, Zero Tolerance, Academic Credit, Statutory Interpretation, Artificial Intelligence