"Things were not going well for Jasmine Boulware during her first year at prestigious Myers Park High School in Charlotte, N.C. hailed by Newsweek Magazine as one of the 100 best high schools in America.
The 16-year-old freshman had racked up several disciplinary suspensions, mainly for disruptive behavior.
So when the assistant principal called her into his office in February, 2005, she anticipated another reprimand. Instead, she was told that her days at Myers Park were over. "He said I wasn't learning anything, wasn't going to learn anything and only wanted to hang out with my friends," Jasmine recalls. "He told me there was no place for students like me at Myers Park."
Jasmine's mother, Kelly Kennedy, says she reluctantly allowed her daughter to withdraw, but only after being told that Jasmine could return to Myers Park in the fall.
But when Jasmine tried to re-enroll the following September, she was turned away...
It was only when Kennedy went directly to the Charlotte Mecklenburg district office that she learned the school had no legal basis to exclude Jasmine."
Did this incident reveal a larger pattern of behavior on the part of the school? See the Time Magazine story.
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