Slocum v. Holton Board of Education

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the Muskegon Circuit Court order granting sum mary disposition to defendant board of education and dismissing his challenge to the board’s attendance policy which permits letter grade reductions of students who, having a certain number of excused absences, fail to attend mandatory after-hours study sessions. We affirm.

Lori Ann Slocum, a tenth-grade student at Holton High School in Muskegon County, Michigan, was absent from school for five days during the first of six marking periods during the 1985-86 school year. Lori’s absence was due to a concussion she…