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Windsor Locks Board unanimously expels student for one year after closed hearing
Summary
After an executive-session expulsion hearing on June 4, the Windsor Locks Board of Education adopted administration findings and voted unanimously to expel a student identified in the minutes as "Student H" for one calendar year, excluding them from all school-related activities.
The Windsor Locks Board of Education voted unanimously June 4 to expel a student identified in the minutes as “Student H” for a period of one calendar year, the board’s minutes show.
The decision followed an executive-session expulsion hearing held to preserve the confidentiality of student records. School administrators, witnesses for both the administration and the student, the student’s grandmother and legal counsel were invited to the closed session and were sworn in to give testimony.
According to the minutes, testimony in the offense phase was provided by Dr. Rebecca Bissonnette, principal of Windsor Locks High School; Assistant Principal Kristen Krupa; and the student’s grandmother, after which the board indicated it had decided the student engaged in conduct violating board policy and constituting an expellable offense. During the penalty phase, Superintendent Shawn Parkhurst, Dr. Bissonnette, Ms. Krupa, the grandmother and Student H offered testimony and answered questions from board members.
In public session at 4:44 p.m. the board took a formal motion. Board member Alba Osorio moved to accept and adopt the findings and facts presented in executive session and to expel Student H from Windsor Locks Public Schools, including all school-related activities, for one calendar year; Greg Guyette seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously (3–0). The minutes state the expulsion will be imposed “in accordance with the terms and conditions of the administration’s recommendations as amended.”
The special meeting was called to order at 4:12 p.m. and adjourned at 4:45 p.m. The minutes list Chairwoman Kylee Christianson, Alba Osorio and Greg Guyette as present; D. Gragnolati and L. Cutler were absent. The minutes also record that witnesses were sworn and that the board entered executive session specifically to conduct the student expulsion hearing and preserve confidentiality of student records.
The minutes do not detail the underlying facts of the offense or the specific terms of the administration’s recommended conditions; the document records only that the board adopted those findings and the one-year expulsion. The minutes list the administrators and staff who participated in the hearing: Superintendent Shawn Parkhurst; Dr. Rebecca Bissonnette, principal of Windsor Locks High School; Assistant Principal Kristen Krupa; and recording secretary Denise M. Piotrowicz.
The board’s action ends with the formal adjournment of the special meeting at 4:45 p.m.
