This sucks. Dessau MS kid gets arrested - Update

[Squall]

wow

my first fight was in 5th grade, i got mad and dumped some pudding on my best friend (wish i hadn't wasted the pudding now

). He hit me and the teacher broke it up.

calls to parents
1 day of in school suspension where we were the only ones in the room.

we literally played paper football all day.

How sad is it that our boys will never get to have those "wonder years" like moments when they think about their childhood. No fighting, no talking to girls in a certain way and especially no touching the girls on campus.

ugh

 

[TexEx88]

As a HS coach who has dealt with numerous situations such as this, if one was charged or suspended and the other wasn't, there is a reason. In situations such as this, the most unreliable version is usually the aggressor. I suspect your co-worker is not getting the whole story from her child or is not telling you the "whole" truth. Has she asked specifically why they are being treated differently? Is there a history of fights with her son?

 

[Hes not here]

I agree with Texex. There are 2 sides to every story. The punishment here sounds pretty one sided, I can imagine that there is a rational explanation for that

 

[MaduroUTMB]

Lawyers are not to blame for this, but the threat of lawsuits is.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

I remember quite a while back (decade or more) some friends had their kid get in trouble over a "dirt clod" fight during lunch break. The kids weren't mad at each other. They were bored and having fun. So two of them (one a doctor's kid and the other a lawyer's kid) were hustled to the principal's office. He called the police, thinking it was an assault. He made the mistake of leaving them alone while the cops were called for.

The cop gets the first 8th grader in the room to question, says this is a very serious matter, etc. Throwing dirt clods can be considered assault. The kid pulls out a neatly printed notarized, that's right notarized, sworn affidavit from the other boy granting him express permission to throw dirt clods at him, assuming the risk, and consenting to such action using "Whereas" and all the right legal jargon. The kids drafted this up themselves while they waited and told the principal's secretary that she was supposed to notarize it (she was a notary), so she did. Not that notarization matters so much legally, it just adds such dignity to the document. The cops wanted nothing else to do with the case. The kids still got a week's detention, but no suspension or criminal charges or anything. The funny thing is, it was the doctor's son, not the lawyer's son who was the mastermind, though a group effort. Anyway, that kid is now out of law school back East somewhere. Not the principal's favorite story to be told around.

 

[Brak]

Not that I believe a word of it but that's hilarious.