This morning, Brevard County School Board Chair Matt Susin, along with Sheriff Wayne Ivey, and State Attorney Phil Archer held a press conference (without inviting the press) about the school discipline policy.
School Board Chair Matt Susin, who is going into his 7th year on the Board proclaimed he has been contacted by countless teachers and staff that feel they are handcuffed by the current policy, and that discipline is out of control in the district.
The current discipline policy can be read here. It is important to note that the policy that Mr. Susin and Sheriff Ivey have proclaimed to be a chronic and systemic problem has been in place since 2019, and revised as recently as February 8, 2022. In 2019, the Brevard Public School Board that implemented this policy, consisted of a Republican majority board, of which Susin was also a member.
In February 2022, when the policy was minimally revised, there was a workshop to address the policy. During the workshop, not one member of the public spoke on it, neither a single teacher, neither a single staff member, neither did Matt Susin. What Mr. Susin did decide to speak on at length, was that our policy for allowing students to transfer schools and play sports wasn’t fair.