Fairfax County’s school board voted to make forced school transfers more of a last resort than a knee-jerk reaction in discipline cases, following months of debate after a student’s suicide.

Nick Stuban, 15, committed suicide after he was suspended from W.T. Woodson High School, kept out of school for months, then transferred away from Woodson. Stuban had confessed to purchasing a synthetic marijuana capsule.

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