The first teacher he attacked did not want to press charges.
I wonder why. Perhaps she did not want to see him get a criminal record?
But if that was her motivation, if she thought he had learned a lesson and would stay out of trouble in the future, her judgment was bad.
“The first teacher he attacked did not want to press charges.
I wonder why. Perhaps she did not want to see him get a criminal record?
But if that was her motivation, if she thought he had learned a lesson and would stay out of trouble in the future, her judgment was bad.”
Makes me think that the kids parents are important, or connected or both or maybe she’s white and the kids is a “protected class” and or possibly a highly recruited athlete.
> The first teacher he attacked did not want to press charges. I wonder why. Perhaps she did not want to see him get a criminal record? <
It’s more likely that she was pressured to let the whole thing go away. I saw a lot of that in my decades as an urban public school teacher.
School administrators value good PR above all else. They don’t want to see messy arrest and trial details reported by the media.
So it might have went like this: Teacher, we have a deal for you. Drop the charges and take a month off to recuperate. Those days won’t be deduced from your sick day total. But if you want to press charges anyway, understand that you’ll be hurting the district.