Will suspension affect merit aid offers?

[jym626]

<p>Why the zealous passion about this?? You were, in your own words, “flat out wrong” about wearing gang colors being a criminal offense, and are now also wrong in your initial insistence that a person whose record was expunged having to disclose it on a job application (with certain exceptions). A s a comment in the NYT comments noted (and in part why it they are a good read) is that job cannot ask you to violate the law.

This is terrible, and depending upon the state, unlawful advice. If a juvenile record is expunged it should probably not be disclosed to a college or university, check applicable state law to be certain. In my state of Illinois expunged records should not be disclosed to a college or university. Further, a student has a strong legal argument that even juvenile records that have not been expunged should not be disclosed and are not allowed to be disclosed pursuant to Illinois law.</p>

<p>These college admissions counselors need to be reminded that although they might hold their students to “a higher standard of behavior than is required by law” that the colleges and their employees are not above the law themselves. Perhaps a civil suit would put them in their place.

[Disclose</a> Disciplinary Infractions, Admissions Officials Say - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/infractions/]Disclose”>Disclose Disciplinary Infractions, Admissions Officials Say - The New York Times)
Joblue- they are no more right or wrong than you or any of the other posters here posting their opinion. Point is, there are valid arguments on both sides of this discussion.</p>