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To: camle
Teach grabbed for the phone instead, which made the kid irate. it would have done far worse to me, and the school shouuld apologise.

"Teach grabbed the phone..." If that is the case, the teacher had to have assaulted the student... there was apparently a struggle for the phone during which the phone was disconnected. If so, the teacher had to have touched the student forcefully... that is assault... and if contact was made, battery.

...for the kid to use this as an excuse to allow his grades to go down is just as dumb.

It may not be "an excuse" it may be a fact. I know of school districts where a 10 day suspension requires a one level grade reduction in all classes he is taking.

23 posted on 05/06/2005 10:33:46 AM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: Swordmaker

he said that this was making his grades fall. there is another article about this floating around here somewhere...


43 posted on 05/06/2005 10:43:45 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: Swordmaker
"Teach grabbed the phone..." If that is the case, the teacher had to have assaulted the student.

This may be the legal description of the incident, in which case the teacher is a criminal, and should be prosecuted and sued along with the school district. I wonder if the brave ACLU would like to tackle this one. This kid has no one to speak for him here.

Ideally he would not have been disrespectful, however, he is not of age, mature, or experienced, and the teacher IS, who is the more irresponsible in the creating of this incident?

71 posted on 05/06/2005 11:02:04 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Swordmaker

IIRC "in loco parentis" is still fully in force. That would make the so-called "assault" on the same level if a prent had yanked a cell phone out of his/her kid's hand.


396 posted on 05/07/2005 11:10:50 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women (HJ Simpson))
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