Prep Star Wroten Spied On, Kicked Out Of High School By School District
Tony Wroten from SeattleTimes.com
The Seattle Times reports Tony Wroten Jr., the stud basketball player from Garfield High School, has been kicked out of school and will not be allowed to play basketball for the Bulldogs this season.
Wroten is the #1 rated recruit in the country for the 2011 class.
The school district made this conclusion after a surveillance program concluded that Wroten actually spent more time at his Dad’s house in Renton, not the Central District home one block from GHS.
While anticipated budget shortfalls are forcing possible school closures, the Seattle School District managed to find enough skrilla to hire a private investigator.
How did they come to this conclusion? Apparently because Wroten didn’t always spend the night at this house on Fridays…
Not only is it fiscally irresponsible to be performing this sort of surveillance, but it is also unbelievably, skin-crawlingly creepy. It’s also insanely impersonal – even the Mormons will knock on your door, not just leer at you from a car across the street.
Wroten’s father makes another excellent point, in that his son, who is still only 15 years old, is not getting an education while this ridiculous scenario plays out.
This kid needs to be in school. This stinks.
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This one could get complicated. From what I have read, the WIAA isn’t even involved in this one, yet. Rather, its a staright-up isssue of whether Wroten is entitled to attend GHS pursuant to the Seattle School District’s attendance rules. The problem is that if he goes back to Renton, he would likley be regarded as a transfer student under the WIAA rules, and as such, would not be allowed to compete at the varsity level this year. However, if he attends another school in the Seattle School District, he would not be a transfer student, and could compete at the varsity level. This is becuase he attended Garfield last year, and would not be transferring out of the District. However, if the Seattle School District has the same rule that Everett does, a student only gets one free internal transfer, so a well reasoned choice would be in order, as another in-district move might not be permitted enxt year.
It’s a thorny legal issue. We’ll have to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers. – Lionel Hutz.
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