Controversy Over Disciplinary Policies
Fairfax County Public Schools and Superintendent Dale have been criticized for the Fairfax County school system disciplinary process, which has been blamed for the recent suicides of two students: Josh Anderson, of South Lakes High School, took his life in March 2009, and Nick Stuban, a "model student" at W.T. Woodson High School, committed suicide on January 20, 2011. Stuban's family said that his spirit had been crushed in his experience with the disciplinary process. In February 2011, responding to the criticism by County Supervisors Catherine Hudgins and Penelope Gross, Dale maintained that the disciplinary policy did not constitute "zero tolerance" and said that Hudgins' statements associating the disciplinary process with the suicides "for the purpose of furthering a falsehood" was "unconscionable and a blow to those who have already suffered great pain."
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