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THOMAS v. BOARD OF ED., GRANVILLE CENT. SCH. DIST.

No. 142, Docket 79-7382.

607 F.2d 1043 (1979)

Donna THOMAS, John Tiedeman, by and through his parents Mr. & Mrs. Henry Tiedeman, David Jones, by and through his parents Mr. & Mrs. John E. Jones, Richard Williams, by and through his parents Mr. & Mrs. Arthur F. Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, GRANVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, William E. Butler, Don L. Miller, Frederick J. Reed, Beverly Tatko, Robert L. Flower, Terry M. Knipes, Walter Perry, III, Frank P. Villano, Donald Binck, Marie Vanderminden, and Theresa McCauliffe, each Individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Emery, New York City, New York Civil Liberties Union, for plaintiffs-appellants.

H. Wayne Judge, Glens Falls, N.Y., Caffrey, Pontiff, Stewart, Rhodes & Judge, Glens Falls, N.Y., for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and NEWMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

Public education in America enables our nation's youth to become responsible participants in a self-governing society. To perform this critical function effectively, professional educators must be accorded substantial discretion to oversee properly their myriad responsibilities. But our willingness to defer to the schoolmaster's expertise in administering school discipline rests, in large measure, upon the supposition that

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