The kid told his mother (a very different story from what really happened), the mother complained to the principal (who promptly suspended him) and then she pressed charges with the police. At the trial, there was so little evidence against him, that the judge tossed the case out before it even went to the defense. It doesn't matter, though. My friend's 14 year teaching career is gone.
And what did the union(NEA) do for one their teachers through all this? Absolutely nothing. He became a bargaining chip in the negotiations for a new teachers' contract. The union got some concessions in their contract negotiation in exchange for tossing my friend overboard.
This is what he got in return for paying 14 years of union dues.
Here's the latest on his story.
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I am very sorry to hear about your friend.
If you work for jerks ( and all Marxists and their useful idiots are jerks) expect to be treated badly.
What a shame. I used to work in sales for a company where practically all of my clients were schoolteachers. The stories they would tell me... Quite a few had been wrongly accused at one point or another. I would never want to be a teacher today.
I read your poor friend’s eraser story, and it reminded me of an incident I witnessed in grade school. Feel free to pass this story along to him. Maybe it will put a smile on his face:
Back in the 70’s, my seventh grade class in a Catholic school had a particularly strict nun. The class was always silent when she was teaching. I should also mention she had a terrific pitching arm. I remember seeing her pitch fastballs to kids out in the schoolyard.
One day, when she turned her back to erase the blackboard, a boy sitting near me whispered to his friend sitting next to him. Sister pivoted (much like my 11yo son did recently when he made a second base pickoff from the pitcher’s mound) with eraser in hand and threw it hard. It smacked one of the boys in his head, bounced off, and hit the head of the boy he was talking to. And I’m not exaggerating at all. You might say she made a double-play in one throw. Immediately, the boys went silent again, and she went on teaching like nothing happened.
No lawyers. No lawsuit. And that was one of the tamest incidents I witnessed at our school.
For the record, I homeschool my sons. :-)