Then this says much more about the administration of the school…and not of the good kind.
Teachers/LOR writers do and IMO SHOULD reserve the right to rescind LORs if they find subsequent student behavior is sufficiently negative that they could no longer write a positive LOR in good conscience.
This is a right that was clearly reserved when I was going through HS and was a right clearly used by an older college classmate’s MA program Profs to rescind their LORs from PhD applications just a few years ago when they subsequently found out about negative classroom behavior from another colleague in their academic department.
I think it’s outrageous the parent here and the school board feel entitled to second guess and focus on punishing the LOR writer for legitimately exercising the right to rescind one’s LOR. Talk about high-handed totalitarian behavior AND “special snowflaking” a student who clearly committed a serious offense in violation of school policies as the school admins found in their decision.
Worse, if most adcoms and employers I’ve known from family/past working relationships found a given educational institution has such micromanaging school/college admins and excessive helicopterish parents, they’d be inclined to view that institution* and the issued LORs with deep dubiousness and act accordingly.
- Worse, many would view the school admins as acting in an exceedingly totalitarian high-handed manner in trying to micromanage an area which is solely the prerogative of the LOR writer...no one else.
Pot…kettle…black. It’s the mother of that adjudicated and guilty student who is acting the part of the bully…and the school board is wrongfully taking her side and throwing a teacher under the bus for doing her job.