McDONOUGH — The Henry County Board of Education is reviewing potential amendments to its student code of conduct, changes that address the board’s controversial pupil discipline policies.
One story after another continues to spring up from parents and students in dissent to suspensions, expulsions or reassignments to the alternative school program in Henry County Schools.
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