You’re arguing against existing law. Don’t like it? Work to get it changed. As it stands, supervisors most definitely are legally accountable for verbal abuse and you know it.
Well, that is a brilliant statement. I don’t live where this took place so I can’t try to change the law, if indeed it is a current law. That law doesn’t exist where I live, so maybe this happened where liberals prevail. But even at that, my opinion, is that verbal abuse should not be a legal liability. What I consider verbal abuse, you may not, and what you consider verbal abuse I may not and that is the problem. And again, you are welcome to your opinion that people are not responsible for their own actions. That is not mine. Have a nice day.
> supervisors most definitely are legally accountable for verbal abuse <
Yes. If a headline-seeking DA had brought the charges, that wouldn’t mean much. But a jury brought the charges. That carries weight with me.
As a veteran high school teacher, I saw a lot of bullying over the years. It’s always ugly, and the victim rarely sees a way out (even if there is one).
It is NOT, repeat NOT, like one’s experience in boot camp. In boot camp everyone gets sh*t on rather equally, so to speak. In a bullying case one weak soul is singled out. Everyone else gets to enjoy the show.
And it looks like the student might have been a special-needs kid. From the Columbia Daily Tribune:
“Former classmates told the jury about how Suttner was relentlessly teased at school because of his appearance, his walk or how he spoke, among other things.”