Son's death inspires dad's school board candidacy

For Fairfax County School Board candidate Steve Stuban, the death of his son Nick earlier this year was more than a tragedy. It was a call to arms. Nick, 15, admitted buying synthetic marijuana and was suspended for weeks as his case worked its way through Fairfax County Public Schools’ disciplinary system. Eventually he was expelled and moved to another school. He committed suicide in January.

That’s when Stuban, a program manager at the Department of Defense and a longtime officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, went to the school board calling for changes in the disciplinary process that he said took too long, was too harsh and ultimately too much for some students to handle.