Jane Wettach pleads at the North Carolina Supreme Court

The North Carolina Supreme Court in March is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a Beaufort County-based lawsuit that could affect the future of students who are suspended from public schools for long periods of time across North Carolina and the local school boards that hand down such suspensions.

At issue is the right of students who receive long-term suspensions to have access to an alternative education during their time away from school. Existing state law leaves such access to the discretion of local school boards. (...)
“More than 5,000 students in North Carolina were suspended from school long-term last year, excluded entirely from both the regular school building and alternative school. ... Unless the school system can show that this banishment was necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest, it directly offends our Constitution,” writes Jane Wettach, a lawyer for the students, in an appellate brief to the Supreme Court. (...)

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Henry Wettach, Walter, Louise - Winifred's Family Search

The following message appeared on the Ancestry.com Wettach Surname Board and if one of our readers could help, it would be greatly appreciated:
i am looking for info about rita rizzo wettach who i've been told she may be my birthmother. she was married to a henry wettach. i was born in aug 1954 in north carolina . rita had family in north carolina i think her parents would have lived here. thats what i was told . she is now in a mental hospital in north carolina she has demintia. i think henry's fathr was walter and he was married to louise. rita rizzo's family was from italy henery family from germany. if you can help me connect the dots it would be great. merry christmas. barbara obxbabs@yahoo.com
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