In re Appeal of Suspension of Huffer from Circleville High School

For this writer to be dissenting from the position of a school board and the exercise of a board’s broad discretionary power is a most unusual position, but this I must do under the facts of this case. My usual stance is one supportive of the sound exercise of the board’s administrative authority to operate its school program. In this regard see my most recent comments in dissent in the case of Phillips v. South Range Local School Dist. Bd. of Edn. (1989), 45 Ohio St. 3d 66, 72-74, 543 N.E. 2d 492, 498-500. Here, however, there has been an abuse of that discretion, not in the promulgation of…