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At least a dozen Francis Junior High School students were suspended for three days this week for taking a prohibited route home, an action being protested by an attorney representing one of the pupils. The school's principal, who established the rule forbidding students to walk along N and O streets between 24th Street NW and Dupont Circle, said he is only trying to protect the youths and cooperate with neighbors. The lawyer is calling it a violation of the students' constitutional rights. 'There's no way this can be lawful, no way,' said Douglas R. Sparks, who contacted Francis Principal Courtney L. Fletcher on behalf of eighth-grader Ernest Flores, 15. 'To suspend somebody for three days and have a negative thing on their academic records because they walked on a public sidewalk.... All I'm asking is, what's your legal authority for this?' The article doesn't explain why that route is prohibited, but I can tell you that the streets in question are just normal city streets.
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