> 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.”
He was bullied at school, so that’s his fast-food manager’s fault? WHAT?????