Oh yes, a cabal of evil, totalitarian teachers in the midst of a student choking to death, collectively stopped the united efforts of all those other students to call for help. Sniff, sniff. Smell test in progress.
The story does get a little confused.
Several Martinsville High School students say teachers stopped their calls to 911 while a fellow student was choking..
He says one of his friends tried to call 911 with his cell phone, but just as he reached an operator, he says a teacher closed his phone...
We've heard rumors to such an effect, that a cell phone was slapped out of a kids hand," Hollanders says, "We haven't been able to determine that at all whatsoever."
Let's remember that this report is from WISH Channel 8 TV and TV reporters on the scene are usually running around trying to hear anything they can. The early reports are always somewhat chaotic.
I do believe mistakes were made (because this teen died), but let's get some solid facts before we devolve to mob mentality.
From your screen name, blind denial of what the student witnesses said and robotic defense of teachers, may I assume that you, yourself are in the edumacatuion corrupting the youth bidness?
I forgot to include the historical background...
Indeed. And no student would go on record. Anyway, easy enough to check the 911 records to see if any calls were actually placed and/or cut off in progress.