The Mountain Creek Academy student who took a sawed-off shotgun to school on Sept. 11, 2012, will “never again darken the doors of any (Murray County) school,” said Mike Tuck, school administrative services director.
That’s because members of a school tribunal expelled the 16-year-old student recently, Tuck said. According to the state Department of Education, state law requires a minimum one-year suspension for any student who brings “weapon(s)... on school property,” while Georgia code defines expulsion as ”(removing) a student from a public school beyond the current school quarter or semester.”
Asked why tribunal members decided to expel the student, Tuck said, “No reason was ever given. I can only speculate ... I really can’t comment further because of privacy considerations. I don’t even know who the members (of the tribunal) were that day.”
State law doesn’t limit who can be part of the disciplinary panel, but does require school officials to have an appeals process. The student had 20 days to appeal the decision to the local school board, but no appeal was filed, said Tuck. State law also requires a written record of the tribunal hearing, which is not open to the public.
An official with Murray County Juvenile Court said “the student was dealt with out of court.”
“I can’t really say much more than that legally because the student was a juvenile at the time of the incident,” Danielle Jones, juvenile probation specialist, said.
The student boarded a bus outside Bagley Middle School, carrying a 12-gauge, sawed-off shotgun in his pants, said several school officials. It was loaded and the student had extra ammunition with him, added officials with the Murray County Sheriff’s Office.
At least four students told the bus monitor about the shotgun, said Tuck. The school resource officer was called, and he called the sheriff’s office. Deputies were sent to Bagley Middle and boarded the bus where they took the student into custody without resistance.
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January 16, 2013
Murray student expelled for taking shotgun to school last year
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