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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Nine Clovis Unified students are banned from walking astatine graduation aft they were caught with intoxicant astatine prom.
Their parents person hired an lawyer who alleges that different students who didn’t admit to drinking are inactive allowed to locomotion astatine graduation.
Attorney Steven Smith says it each began connected May 3 erstwhile much than 30 Clovis Unified students were recovered with intoxicant connected 2 enactment buses astatine the Clovis North prom. Smith says the main ordered the students to get successful 1 of 2 lines: 1 for admit and 1 for deny.
"All of my clients went to the admit line, arsenic did immoderate others. He tells them, 'If you are honorable with me, I'm going to beryllium amended to you,'” Smith said.
Instead, helium says each 9 of his students were suspended for 5 days and mislaid their quality to enactment successful elder activities, including walking astatine graduation.
Meanwhile, helium says immoderate of the students who denied drinking intoxicant were fixed shorter suspensions and are allowed to walk.
“We person a mates of kids who person already received reduced suspensions down to 2 days, on with restoration of elder privileges, who are successful the aforesaid vessel arsenic my kids that admitted. So we conscionable judge this is excessive, unreasonable, unfair punishment nether the circumstances," Smith said.
Clovis Unified spokeswoman Kelly Avants says they weighed respective factors earlier deciding connected disciplinary action. She says the outcomes shouldn't travel arsenic a astonishment due to the fact that they are listed successful the students' elder and creation contracts.
“We're looking astatine again, wide examples of violations of the signed elder contract. Sometimes we're looking astatine broader questions, but we person a pupil who's progressive successful an activity, and they person the codification of ethics… each of those things are going to beryllium weighed with the idiosyncratic acceptable of evidence,” Avants said.
No determination is expected to beryllium made by Wednesday night, but the timepiece is ticking arsenic graduation signifier begins this Friday.
