[jiggyboy]

"The teacher sent him into the hallway, where he continued burping and laughing as he leaned into the classroom entrance." -- LOL

http://www.belch.com/

[shibumi]

[Bishop_Malachi]

Something is being left out of the story. The kid was probably sent to the office with a referral after his “hallway behavior”. The only way you get handcuffed and lead out is if you willfully refuse to move/obey the administrator and the campus police have to be called.

To be honest, if we could just paddle today in public schools, 90% of all “SPED/disciplinary” issues would cease. For you non-teachers who were in school 20 years plus ago....you’d be absolutely shocked at what kids can do in public schools these days.

[spintreebob]

We make a Federal case of too many things. This is not a freedom of speech issues and should never be in Federal Court. I may, or may not, like decisions in a state or county court. But on something like this it is time to move on.

[upchuck]

Lock him up.

[Will88]

a New Mexico seventh-grader who was handcuffed and arrested after his teacher said the student had disrupted gym class with fake burps.

Schools have no way of handling that behavior without involving a law enforcement officer?

[fella]

7th grader, disrupting class = 5 swats with a paddle, back in my day.

Now it’s call in the cops and lawyers?

This is insane.

[Savage Beast]

"he sided with a New Mexico seventh-grader who was handcuffed and arrested after his teacher said the student had disrupted gym class with fake burps."

Couldn't they just have sent him to the principal's office?

"the boy’s mother is asking...to sue the officer who arrested her son.

Can't she just complain to the principal?

All of this is absolutely and utterly stupid! It show how insane the world of Western Decadence really is!

[Texas Eagle]

Here's the dirty little secret. Tens of thousands of cases "make it" to The Supreme Court every year. Staffers dismiss 99.9% of them out of hand. The Supremes themselves have no say in which cases they hear. With a possible few exceptions.

So, my question is, how and why the hell did this case make it to the docket?

[Rebelbase]

Had he been farting instead of burping they’d have given him the death penalty.

[bgill]

Three swats with the board of education would have stopped the behavior. And another three on mama for her lack of parenting skills.