In one case, the Board supported the action of the Principal to suspend the pupil (1860), but in another, the Board came to the conclusion that the Principal was unable to enforce the necessary discipline in the Academy and they requested his resignation (1841).

Likewise, any severe breaches of conduct which took place outside of school would be considered at an emergency meeting of the Board (1831). The Board was forced to deal with a blatant breach of conduct in the attack of Lemuel Hollands, a black man, by several pupils. The Board concluded that "although the conduct of the negro was improper, the boys acted very wrong in attempting to take the law into their own hands... that they were wrong in so far forgetting that their own self respect as to enter into personal combat with a colored man, and more particularly so as it was on the Sabbath and at the hour for religious worship, thereby interrupting the meeting and disturbing the public peace."(28)

28 "Board Meeting dated June 6, 1838," Brookeville Academy Minute Books, 2 Vols., 1822-1934, MS.149, Manuscripts Division, Maryland Historical Society Library.