<p><a href=“Parents’ Suit Against Md. Private School Dismissed – NBC4 Washington”>Parents’ Suit Against Md. Private School Dismissed – NBC4 Washington;
<p>This lawsuit could have opened up a pandora’s box if not dismissed by the judge. When do students (and parents) become responsible for their education?</p>
<p>Although the story says the parents are expected to appeal, so there may be more shoes to drop.</p>
<p>The only ones who will make money on this one are the lawyers. </p>
<p>Wonder where the boy applied. You know, he could have gotten accepted someplace!!</p>
<p>Oh good grief. </p>
<p>Maybe the kid should sue his parents for not providing enough fancy tutors and for not yelling at the teachers enough to change his grade 8-| </p>
<p>@ janesmith Although the parent’s lawyer expects to appeal, I wonder what the parents or student expected the school to do after he received a “D”?</p>
<p>@ thumper1 I believe that the student did get accepted somewhere. The problem may be that he did not get into colleges his parents desired.</p>
<p>Boohoo! Sorry he didn’t get into the college of his parents’ choice. LOTS of kids don’t get accepted at their top choices. </p>
<p>And where is the student responsibility here? Did everyone in the class get a D in the course? If not, what caused THIS student to get the D. Maybe the school suggested,he not even take AP bio, and his parents insisted? </p>
<p>Too many variables. </p>
<p>If he got accepted to college, the parents need to move on. It’s not like the colleges that rejected him are going to change their minds. On the contrary, I would think they would be happy he wasn’t their student. After all, this next lawsuit could be against the undergrad school because the kid doesn’t get into the grad school of choice, or get a job of choice.</p>
<p>Well this is getting ridiculous.The school does not owe that kid anything but the opportunity to become a candidate for whatever schools he/his parents wanted. Besides, he got a D…that might as well stand for Doom at many elite colleges these days. I hope there’s more than meets the eye to this story because they really sound rather disillusioned as of now.</p>
<p>Oh my goodness gracious…good for the judge for tossing this one. I bet the judge was ROTFL. </p>
<p>I hope judges somewhere keep a list of their reaction to the most ridiculous cases that come across their desks. I’d pay money to read their thoughts as they’re reading some of these cases lol </p>
<p>Too bad taxpayers can’t turn around and sue stupid people like this for the court costs and judges time. Everytime I hear about a ridiculous lawsuit I wonder what the total was for court administrative costs and the cost of the judge.</p>
<p>I wonder if the parents sued the nanny when the kid wasn’t potty trained by 2.</p>
<p>Well, it’s a ridiculous lawsuit, but I think I understand where the parents are coming from–as consumers. My kids went to public school, but friends who shelled out big bucks for theirs to go private say they were mostly paying for the deeper level of home/school communication that private schools claim to offer compared with big impersonal public schools. For example, if a student at the local private school were failing honors biology, the school would be all over it–contacting the parents, setting up a conference to get to the bottom of the issue. At our public school the teacher might not alert the parents because school policy doesn’t require that level of teacher engagement. So, I can understand the frustration when, after paying that costly tuition, the school didn’t come through. That said, a lawsuit is hardly the solution.</p>
<p>Why not keep in contact with the teacher? It definitely goes both ways. Don’t private schools have mid semester progress reports? </p>
<p>Our local public school has student grades ONLINE 24/7 for parents and students to see. There are NO secret kept from the families. Can’t believe a private school would have any less access for parents.</p>
<p>This student could have told his parents he was having academic trouble. A tutor would have cost a lot less per hour than the lawyer for this lawsuit.</p>
<p>At our local public school, students and parents do have access to their children’s grades online. My DD attended what would be considered a very elite private school in the DC metropolitan area and parents did not have access to students’ grades online.</p>
<p>My son attends a private school and we do not have access to the grades online. However, if there is a problem, the teachers do speak with the counselors, who contact us. My other son attended public school and the grades were always available online, though not always updated.</p>
<p>In the above-mentioned case, I kind of wonder what else was going on that the suit doesn’t mention. For instance, the parents and/or child might have thought the teacher was bluffing about an upcoming poor grade. I’ve heard of such circumstances. You know, something along the line of “We pay too much tuition for the school to fail our child.”</p>
<p>That is a highly reputed, $30,000 to $35,000 a year day school. The local public school district has many academically high performing high schools. Washington DC is just across the county line. I am sure the parents who send their kids to Bullis expect a lot!</p>
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<p>The parents expected too much from a school whose avg SAT score isn’t much above 1700.</p>
<p>Again, they don’t send out mid semester progress reports? I’m sure the parents knew that junior doing poorly…the boy also knew too! Shouldn’t some of the responsibility rest on him? Students know when they are flunking a class. In would expect a student in this type of student to be of a certain caliber, have certain expectations for himself and care enough not to flunk.</p>
<p>This one sort of puzzled me…so are the parents sending their student to the expensive private school to get a superior education, or to be guaranteed good grades on the transcript?</p>
<p>I have a feeling that at that school, it takes a lot to get such a poor grade–and my guess is that the student’s grade book will show a lot of not-turned-in assignments, a lot of poorly done assignments, a lot of quiz and test grades showing poor preparation due to not doing all of the assignments…</p>
<p>and I also have a feeling that there had been communication, certainly with the student, and most likely with his family, concerning the student’s lacking performance.</p>
<p>My guess is that the student is bright–as this was an honors level class- and that had the work been too difficult for him, rather than just not done by him, that he would have been moved to an easier class.</p>