A.B. Ex Rel. Bennett v. Slippery Rock Area School District

DISSENTING OPINION BY

Judge FRIEDMAN.

I respectfully dissent. The majority, reversing the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County, holds that the Slippery Rock Area School District (School District) proved by a preponderance of the circumstantial evidence that A.B., a sixth-grade student at Slippery Rock Area Middle School (Middle School), violated the school’s terroristic threats policy by placing a bomb threat note in the girls’ bathroom; thus, the School Board had good cause to expel A.B. (Majority op. at 677.) For the following reasons, I disagree.

A.B. is a very good student with no history…