Johnson v. Board of Education

Petitioner Sharon Johnson is 16 years old. She resides with her mother who verified the petition in her behalf in Manhasset and has been attending the public schools in Union Free School District No. 6, Manhasset, where she has maintained a consistently poor record. For the academic year 1973-1974 she failed all her academic subjects in her then grade level, seven. Nonetheless she was advanced "as a result of mandatory advancement” to the eigth grade at Manhasset Junior High School for the year 1974-1975 where she again failed every academic and nonacademic course. Following further mandatory…