No Favored Treatment for East High Athletes Busted at Party

Teen party fallout: St. Charles Community Unit School District 303 chief says the district’s Code of Conduct holds student athletes to a higher, tougher standard than other students.

Residents of an East Side neighborhood have been expressing outrage over a Nov. 2 house party where St. Charles police took into custody 71 people, including 65 juveniles. The homeowner and four juveniles were cited, while police contacted parents to come fetch the other kids and take them home. If the chaotic scene police came upon when they arrived at the Persimmon Drive home during that party was enough to enrage neighbors, the fallout afterward also has inflamed some parents, some of whom believe St. Charles East High School has shown favoritism in regard to disciplining student athletes caught up in the incident. The favoritism claim, however, is not true, according to Dr. Donald Schlomann, the superintendent of schools for St. …

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The Law is the Law

9:25 am on Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Interesting to see a STC Past Student is smarter then the Mom of 3. Forgot about the spell check - how about parents start using common sense and keep their kids home from the parties.   more ›

Woman Charged, Scores of Teens Nabbed at Party

East Side homeowner faces fine, four juveniles charged with underage drinking, and parents of 65 others were called to come get their children.

Woman Charged, Scores of Teens Nabbed at Party

East Side homeowner faces fine, four juveniles charged with underage drinking, and parents of 65 others were called to come get their children.

A St. Charles homeowner faces a fine of as much as $500, four juveniles have been cited with underage drinking and scores of teens are dealing with the consequences after police called their parents to come get them after officers broke up a Nov. 2 party on the city’s East Side. Lisa J. Lorenzini, 50, of the 200 block of Persimmon Drive, was cited under a local ordinance with social hosting, punishable by a fine of at least $250 and as much as $500, St. Charles police said. Four St. Charles teens, ages 15, 16, 17 and 17, were charged with possession/consumption of alcohol by a minor, police said. According to St. Charles police, officers were called to Persimmon and Hunt Club drives on a report of an underage drinking party. The department…

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usagi

7:30 am on Sunday, April 28, 2013

I wonder how a virtual charter school would handle this...   more ›