Consolidated School District Number 2 v. King Ex Rel. Dresselhaus

NUGENT, Chief Judge.

Defendant Consolidated School District No. 2 (hereinafter the District) appeals from the reversal by the circuit court of its suspension from school of plaintiff Art King, an eighth grade student at Raytown Middle School. The District argues that the trial judge erred in finding that it did not base the suspension upon competent and substantial evidence and that in suspending him, the district abused its discretion and acted arbitrarily, capriciously and unreasonably.

We reverse the circuit court’s decision.

On the morning of September 20, 1988, at a school bus stop a…