A faculty adviser to the Monarch High School student council has stepped down from his post, showing his displeasure with a recent Boulder Valley school board decision to reinstate a student who had been removed from the council.
Science teacher Tony Tolbert stepped aside from his job teaching the student council class at Monarch after the school board voted 5-2 on Friday to reverse a decision by the principal — later affirmed by Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Chris King — to remove senior Dylan Quick as head boy of the Louisville school.
Quick was caught in September with marijuana paraphernalia on school grounds.
Tolbert didn’t return calls for comment, but Monarch Principal Jerry Anderson said Tolbert “had to do what he thought was best.”
“He doesn’t think it’s the right message to send the students,” she said of the decision to give Quick back his head boy title.
But school board member Laurie Albright, who voted in favor of reinstatement, said Monarch administrators didn’t follow their own student council constitution, which states that a head boy can’t be removed without first being impeached by the 11-member student council.
“When you have rules and a constitution, words matter,” she said Monday. “And we need to follow the policies that were written.”
Friday’s vote came in response to a complaint filed by Quick’s parents claiming their son had been wrongfully stripped of his role as head boy because his fellow council members had never been given the opportunity to vote on his fate.
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