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School board revises student suspension case, orders at‑home instruction and conditions for therapeutic placement
Summary
After a closed session, the Suffolk City School Board voted to revise its previous decision on student appeal 24‑25‑9 SA, approving at‑home instruction for the remainder of the third nine‑week grading period and allowing consideration of placement at Turlington Woods under specified conditions.
The Suffolk City School Board voted Feb. 13 to revise its earlier decision in student appeal 24‑25‑9 SA, ordering at‑home educational services for the remainder of the current nine‑week grading period and permitting the Office of Student Services to consider placement at Turlington Woods School at the start of the next grading period under two conditions.
The motion, made after the board convened in closed session under Virginia Code § 2.2‑3711(A)(2) to discuss student records, directs that the student receive at‑home education services for the remainder of the third nine‑week grading period. At the beginning of the fourth nine‑week period, the Office of Student Services may place the student at Turlington Woods if (1) the parent has enrolled and begun intensive in‑home counseling during the third grading period, and (2) upon enrollment at Turlington Woods the family and student agree to receive therapeutic day services.
The motion was moved by Board Member Dr. Brittingham and seconded by Board Member Fields. The roll call vote recorded six votes in favor, one abstention: Dr. Brittingham (yes); Fields (yes); Jenkins (yes); Riddick (abstain); Slinglove (yes); Vice Chair McGee (yes); Chair Howell (yes). The motion passed.
Board members certified in open session that the closed meeting had been conducted in conformity with Virginia law before taking the action. The certification vote was recorded separately and passed by roll call prior to the appeal motion.
The board’s written motion and the conditions attached to a possible Turlington Woods placement were read into the public record during the Feb. 13 business meeting. The board did not provide further public detail about the underlying facts of the appeal during the open session; those matters were discussed in the closed session where student scholastic records are protected under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
The board’s action changes the immediate educational setting for the student to at‑home services and sets explicit service and counseling requirements that must be met before school‑based therapeutic services will be considered.
Meeting documents list the student appeal as case 24‑25‑9 SA and identify the motion and vote in the board minutes.
