[Movemout]

I'd have suspended his butt for sauntering into class on his own schedule. I would have suspended him for cussing. He would have straightened up or reached the maximum number of suspensions leading to expulsion before the fight ever took place if the teachers and administration hadn't bent over backwards to keep him in school. His dad is a real toad, himself. This just another example of victimology carried to the point of absurdity.

[summer]

I'd have suspended his butt for sauntering into class on his own schedule. I would have suspended him for cussing. He would have straightened up or reached the maximum number of suspensions leading to expulsion before the fight ever took place if the teachers and administration hadn't bent over backwards to keep him in school.

You raise good points here, but understand this: teachers do not have the power to suspend a student. The rules of suspension, and what student misconduct qualifies as leading to suspension, are rules designed without input from teachers. And, those rules do not usually include the infractions you mentioned, about being late or cussing.

However, such rules should be written by teachers. A teacher in CA, represented by Gloria Allard, recently won a landmark $4 million award from a jury after this teacher sued the school district for maintaining a work environment of sexual harassment, as the school adminiistrators refused to suspend high school students (white and wealthy) who were cussing this teacher, and harassing this teacher in other ways.

The administrators ignored the teacher's complaints (administrators defense: "our hands are tied") because the parents of the students threatened to sue the school if their little darlings were suspended.

So, after two years of this abuse, the teacher sued these administrators -- the first lawsuit of its kind in the nation.

And, she won. $4 million.

I hope other teachers sue, if that's what it takes to get the message across to administrators who turn a deaf ear to what damage this causes to the work environment for a teacher.

BTW, notice the union did not lift a finger to help this teacher represented by Gloria Allard. Not a big surprise to me. The union never actually HELPS teachers.