[Olog-hai]

How is that “direct evidence”? Student’s word against teacher’s. Hearsay.

Also, the opinion of the “referee” is wrong.

[CitizenUSA]

Hearsay means you witness something and then tell someone else about it. The person you tell then makes the claim. “So and so told me the teacher said...” That’s hearsay.

hearsay: Evidence based on the reports of others rather than the personal knowledge of a witness and therefore generally not admissible as testimony.

Unless I read the article wrong, the child was an actual witness of the statement. It wasn’t hearsay.

[prof.h.mandingo]

Definition of HEARSAY: A term applied to that species of testimony given by a witness who relates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him, or what ...
thelawdictionary.org/hearsay