The Dustin Seal Story
Two
years after he was expelled from Powell High School over a knife a friend
had put in his car, Dustin Seal was asked to list what he missed most
after his expulsion. "Homecoming." "Prom." "Graduation." "My
friends." "Math class." "Band scholarship." "Marching." Two
years after making the list, he climbed into his bathtub and shot himself.
Update:
Dennis Seal Running For School Board... Read
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By becoming active in state & local politics is the only way this Zero Tolerance
Monster will fade!
Dennis Seal's Story:
SEAL SETTLED SUIT IN OCTOBER OF 2002 THEN KILLED HIMSELF. This
case is one of the main cases on front page, SEAL VS MORGAN. My name is DENNIS
SEAL, I
filed this suit on behalf of my son DUSTIN SEAL. DUSTIN never got over the
loss of his childhood and the fact the School Board ruined his young life.
On June 21st of 2002 he got in the bathtub stuck a pistol under his chin and
pulled the trigger. I can still hear his words every night as i lay down to
sleep " Dad how can i be so right and they be so wrong and they be allowed
to get by with ruining my life?." I have beat these people in every Court
of this land and now I have filed a law suit for the wrongful death of my son.
They could have been no less guilty if they had pulled the trigger themselves.
I do not seek vengence but I will get Justice. This time it will be a full
Jury trial and I personally cant wait, its set for September 2004 in the same
Federal Court as before. The new case is Dennis Seal vs Knox County Board of
Education et.al. No,:3:02-cv-430 US FEDERAL COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT
OF TENNESSEE @ KNOXVILLE. If anyone wants to get help on a case involving ZERO
TOLERANCE DO NOT HESITATE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME.Ph 865-687-8101, 865-591-6203.
dseal@worldnet.att.net. I CAN AND WILL HELP YOU!! In your memory son DAD
- Read article about Dustin by Jennifer Lawson, July 6, 2003
- Go to Seal vs. Morgan to read the whole
story!
- Zero Tolerance in
Tennessee Schools 2003
Original
Report 1998
Like many school systems in Tennessee, the Knox County School Board crafted a
zero tolerance policy that took a tougher stance than the state law required
by including additional offenses. That tough policy has come under public scrutiny
in recent years partly through the continued efforts of Dennis
Seal, a parent whose son, apparently despondent after being expelled from
a Knox County high school at the beginning of his senior year, eventually committed
suicide. Five years before his death, the student had been expelled after a friend
left a knife in his car—later, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
the expulsion “irrational” absent any evidence that the student was
aware of the knife’s presence in his car.
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