hazing

[CdwJava]

concernedinlv, you continue to miss the point. What WE might think of the situation will do nothing to help you. Let us say that we were all to agree with you that this was a harmless prank. great. Then what? You would STILL have to go through the process set out in school and district rules to appeal a suspension or any other discipline.

The point is, legally, there is no magic pill whether we agree with your belief this was not "hazing" as defined by the school. I have worked (and continue to do so) as an educator s well as a police officer having spent a few years working juvenile crimes. While this would arguably not be a criminal act, it IS what most every school would consider hazing and, thus, be improper.

As was mentioned previously the school cannot condone this behavior because doing so would only encourage such horseplay and might one day result in someone's actual injury or a complaint, and then the school might find themselves in the position of defending themselves against a suit that alleges they permitted and condone such abusive behavior.

There appears to be ample mitigating circumstances to prevent a huge penalty. But, there also appears to be sufficient cause to believe a violation of that rule occurred. Whether your son played a part in the violation is an issue that the school will have to show in its presentation.

 

[cyjeff]

And as long as we are sharing...

Give me the reason for taping someone into a chair and then leaving them in the middle of a student area if it WASN'T to humiliate that person.

Yeah, all in good fun.

Having a prank pulled on you is designed to degrade that victim... to humiliate that person so that the persons that perpetuated the prank can feel better about themselves.

 

[cyjeff]

I was a school principal. I would have done the exact same thing this principal did. You're right we're not open minded to hazing that could have led to the serious harm of the victim. I see the whole scenario - you don't.

You were a "close family friend" to another one of the students who was suspended. I'm saying you don't see what the school sees. Lawsuit, after lawsuit, after lawsuit, if they didn't act. You're lucky if the school doesn't press charges.

What if there had been a fire or something? How funny would the taped guy in the chair been then?

Or if he had started to choke or seize?

Friggin' laff RIOT!!!!

 

[Humusluvr]

What if there had been a fire or something? How funny would the taped guy in the chair been then?

Or if he had started to choke or seize?

Friggin' laff RIOT!!!!

I know.

That's why the school couldn't just let this go as "boys will be boys" as mom seems to think.

 

[stealth2]

I think OP took her jug o' wine and went home...

 

[Humusluvr]

I think OP took her jug o' wine and went home...

She's going to go tell her "close family friends" how a bunch a closed minded jerks on the internet don't get it either. She can't see how a bunch of people with experience in education law are so alarmed by her and her son's actions.

 

[cyjeff]

She's going to go tell her "close family friends" how a bunch a closed minded jerks on the internet don't get it either. She can't see how a bunch of people with experience in education law are so alarmed by her and her son's actions.

I am serious, here.

I want to know this town's name. It is, apparently, some throw back to Darwinian football theory where the wearing of a uniform means you can belittle and humiliate without punishment.

On another note, I wonder if OP will look through these very forums and see the number of people that have gone to PRISON for doing so much less than this. Forcibly restraining another person could lead to a host of criminal charges.