SCHOOL LAW WGU D017 EVALUATION EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Which law would allow a student worship club to hold after school meetings on a
high school campus, given the school has a limited open forum? - ✔✔Equal Access Act
✔✔A rural elementary school allows a moment of meditation during the first period of
the day. Some students engage in a silent prayer during this period. Teachers express
concern that this period promotes prayer in school.
Based on case law surrounding prayer in schools, how should the administrator
respond? - ✔✔Continue using the meditation period as is since it is not designed to
promote religion.
✔✔Which action do local authorities have the right to take when states maintain control
over curriculum in public schools? - ✔✔Provide additions to curriculum beyond those
required by the state
✔✔What did the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lau v. Nichols require of public
schools? - ✔✔That they provide supplemental language instruction to students with
limited English proficiency
✔✔Which criterion did Castañeda v. Pickard set for educational programs targeting
English learners? - ✔✔Programs must be based on research.
✔✔Which U.S. Supreme Court case established that schools must provide
supplemental supports to English learners? - ✔✔Lau v. Nichols
✔✔What is the Tinker test often used for? - ✔✔To determine a violation of First
Amendment rights
✔✔A group of students wore shirts with political messages displayed on them. The
principal received several complaints from parents that evening who demanded they be
banned from wearing clothing with political messages that could be viewed as offensive
or insensitive to specific groups of students at the school.
Which court case ruling should the principal apply in deciding whether to ban students
from wearing clothing with political messages? - ✔✔Tinker v. Des Moines
✔✔Which student rights were found to be violated In the landmark case of T.L.O. v.
New Jersey? - ✔✔Unreasonable search and seizure
✔✔A high school principal gets an anonymous call that several students at the school
are members of rival neighborhood gangs and that tension has severely escalated over
the weekend. The individual is afraid that the conflict will carry into school on Monday
morning and gun violence could ensue. Since the caller did not provide specific names
,of students, the principal decided to call the local police department for assistance in
searching every student with metal detectors prior to entering the school for the next
week. Several parents began calling saying that their child was not involved in any of
this and that forcing them to go through a metal detector search was a violation of their
Fourth Amendment rights.
What response should the principal provide in reaction to the parent complaints? -
✔✔The use of metal detectors does not violate student Fourth Amendment rights when
the element of danger is adequate and justified.
✔✔During lunch, an assistant principal is approached by several students stating that
they saw another student with a knife in his locker. After searching the student's locker,
no knife was found. Considering
that student lockers are explicitly stated as the personal property of students in the
school's handbook, the student's parents were upset that the search took place and
complained that the school violated their child's Fourth Amendment rights. They
continued that they believe the assistant principal only searched his locker due to his
history of discipline issues and his label as a "problem student."
Which assessment of the school's actions is accurate in relation to the student's Fourth
Amendment rights? - ✔✔The school did not violate the student's Fourth Amendment
rights due to reasonable suspicion.
✔✔When is procedural due process applied during student discipline? - ✔✔When the
student is made aware of charges
✔✔During a high-stakes, state mathematics exam, a classroom teacher observed a
student looking at the answers of another student. The student glanced back and forth
at the screen and changed several
answers on the test.
What must the school administrator do prior to suspending the student? - ✔✔Conduct a
thorough investigation of the alleged incident
✔✔A hearing is scheduled to determine disciplinary action for a student. A notice of the
hearing is sent to the student with a description of the charges and the implications of
those charges.
Which aspect of procedural due process is the notice of the hearing? - ✔✔Fairness
✔✔In a state where corporal punishment of students by school officials is against the
law, a parent offers to provide written consent to allow the principal to spank her child in
lieu of suspension. The child frequently misbehaves, and the parent is frustrated with
the child's misbehavior and cannot afford to continue providing child care when he is
suspended or take off work to attend conferences with the principal and teacher.
Which response to the parental request is appropriate? - ✔✔Notify the parent that
corporal punishment is against the law in their state, even if a parent provides consent.
, ✔✔Two students at a high school get into a physical fight during lunch, and one student
suffered a concussion. As a result of the injury, the principal decides to expel the
student who caused the injury for the rest of the semester. The student argues that the
injury was not intentional and that he was not the aggressor and only acted in self-
defense.
What is the appropriate next step given the length of the proposed expulsion and the
student's defense claim? - ✔✔Formal hearing
✔✔A local high school junior disclosed to her counselor that a peer had been sending
her vulgar and inappropriate texts via a messenger application. She reported that the
texts included cruel references to
her appearance and specifically stated various things that would happen if she shared
this information with others.
What is the appropriate action for the counselor to take? - ✔✔Inform administration and
begin the formal cyberbullying investigation process
✔✔A student at a large high school shared with the assistant principal several posts on
social media by another student. The posts used derogatory comments about the
student's sexual orientation and appearance. After reviewing the posts, the assistant
principal did not follow through with an investigation into the incidents.
How does Title IX define the assistant principal's response? - ✔✔Deliberate indifference
✔✔A parent questions the contents of a student's educational record. While at the
school, the parent is asked to sign a document requesting access to all documents. At
that time, the parent is notified that the principal, assistant principal, and school
psychologist have access to the records. The parents can see the records have been
signed out on three different occasions with only the date and time of access. The
parent asks for a hearing to challenge the material in the record.
Which aspect of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) has been
violated in this scenario? - ✔✔Access to student records must be identified by title of
staff members
✔✔Using a key to grade student final exams, a teacher records the grades into a
gradebook. Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the student
and parents make requests to view the information in the final exam key, gradebook,
and teacher evaluation.
Based on FERPA, which item is accessible to the parent? - ✔✔Grades for their own
child
✔✔Which complaints must an administrator swiftly address related to Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972? - ✔✔High school coach inappropriately touching
players
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Which law would allow a student worship club to hold after school meetings on a
high school campus, given the school has a limited open forum? - ✔✔Equal Access Act
✔✔A rural elementary school allows a moment of meditation during the first period of
the day. Some students engage in a silent prayer during this period. Teachers express
concern that this period promotes prayer in school.
Based on case law surrounding prayer in schools, how should the administrator
respond? - ✔✔Continue using the meditation period as is since it is not designed to
promote religion.
✔✔Which action do local authorities have the right to take when states maintain control
over curriculum in public schools? - ✔✔Provide additions to curriculum beyond those
required by the state
✔✔What did the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lau v. Nichols require of public
schools? - ✔✔That they provide supplemental language instruction to students with
limited English proficiency
✔✔Which criterion did Castañeda v. Pickard set for educational programs targeting
English learners? - ✔✔Programs must be based on research.
✔✔Which U.S. Supreme Court case established that schools must provide
supplemental supports to English learners? - ✔✔Lau v. Nichols
✔✔What is the Tinker test often used for? - ✔✔To determine a violation of First
Amendment rights
✔✔A group of students wore shirts with political messages displayed on them. The
principal received several complaints from parents that evening who demanded they be
banned from wearing clothing with political messages that could be viewed as offensive
or insensitive to specific groups of students at the school.
Which court case ruling should the principal apply in deciding whether to ban students
from wearing clothing with political messages? - ✔✔Tinker v. Des Moines
✔✔Which student rights were found to be violated In the landmark case of T.L.O. v.
New Jersey? - ✔✔Unreasonable search and seizure
✔✔A high school principal gets an anonymous call that several students at the school
are members of rival neighborhood gangs and that tension has severely escalated over
the weekend. The individual is afraid that the conflict will carry into school on Monday
morning and gun violence could ensue. Since the caller did not provide specific names
,of students, the principal decided to call the local police department for assistance in
searching every student with metal detectors prior to entering the school for the next
week. Several parents began calling saying that their child was not involved in any of
this and that forcing them to go through a metal detector search was a violation of their
Fourth Amendment rights.
What response should the principal provide in reaction to the parent complaints? -
✔✔The use of metal detectors does not violate student Fourth Amendment rights when
the element of danger is adequate and justified.
✔✔During lunch, an assistant principal is approached by several students stating that
they saw another student with a knife in his locker. After searching the student's locker,
no knife was found. Considering
that student lockers are explicitly stated as the personal property of students in the
school's handbook, the student's parents were upset that the search took place and
complained that the school violated their child's Fourth Amendment rights. They
continued that they believe the assistant principal only searched his locker due to his
history of discipline issues and his label as a "problem student."
Which assessment of the school's actions is accurate in relation to the student's Fourth
Amendment rights? - ✔✔The school did not violate the student's Fourth Amendment
rights due to reasonable suspicion.
✔✔When is procedural due process applied during student discipline? - ✔✔When the
student is made aware of charges
✔✔During a high-stakes, state mathematics exam, a classroom teacher observed a
student looking at the answers of another student. The student glanced back and forth
at the screen and changed several
answers on the test.
What must the school administrator do prior to suspending the student? - ✔✔Conduct a
thorough investigation of the alleged incident
✔✔A hearing is scheduled to determine disciplinary action for a student. A notice of the
hearing is sent to the student with a description of the charges and the implications of
those charges.
Which aspect of procedural due process is the notice of the hearing? - ✔✔Fairness
✔✔In a state where corporal punishment of students by school officials is against the
law, a parent offers to provide written consent to allow the principal to spank her child in
lieu of suspension. The child frequently misbehaves, and the parent is frustrated with
the child's misbehavior and cannot afford to continue providing child care when he is
suspended or take off work to attend conferences with the principal and teacher.
Which response to the parental request is appropriate? - ✔✔Notify the parent that
corporal punishment is against the law in their state, even if a parent provides consent.
, ✔✔Two students at a high school get into a physical fight during lunch, and one student
suffered a concussion. As a result of the injury, the principal decides to expel the
student who caused the injury for the rest of the semester. The student argues that the
injury was not intentional and that he was not the aggressor and only acted in self-
defense.
What is the appropriate next step given the length of the proposed expulsion and the
student's defense claim? - ✔✔Formal hearing
✔✔A local high school junior disclosed to her counselor that a peer had been sending
her vulgar and inappropriate texts via a messenger application. She reported that the
texts included cruel references to
her appearance and specifically stated various things that would happen if she shared
this information with others.
What is the appropriate action for the counselor to take? - ✔✔Inform administration and
begin the formal cyberbullying investigation process
✔✔A student at a large high school shared with the assistant principal several posts on
social media by another student. The posts used derogatory comments about the
student's sexual orientation and appearance. After reviewing the posts, the assistant
principal did not follow through with an investigation into the incidents.
How does Title IX define the assistant principal's response? - ✔✔Deliberate indifference
✔✔A parent questions the contents of a student's educational record. While at the
school, the parent is asked to sign a document requesting access to all documents. At
that time, the parent is notified that the principal, assistant principal, and school
psychologist have access to the records. The parents can see the records have been
signed out on three different occasions with only the date and time of access. The
parent asks for a hearing to challenge the material in the record.
Which aspect of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) has been
violated in this scenario? - ✔✔Access to student records must be identified by title of
staff members
✔✔Using a key to grade student final exams, a teacher records the grades into a
gradebook. Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the student
and parents make requests to view the information in the final exam key, gradebook,
and teacher evaluation.
Based on FERPA, which item is accessible to the parent? - ✔✔Grades for their own
child
✔✔Which complaints must an administrator swiftly address related to Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972? - ✔✔High school coach inappropriately touching
players
