“Shame on you and don’t you ever do that again. Now get out of here and go do your homework.”
A male senior kid at my son’s school, straight A’s and a 36 ACT, got in trouble after a spat with the school’s female President of Student Council.
The argument was about counting volunteer hours for kids at a non-profit that the President didn’t like (a conservative organization of course).
The young man got up from the table and said something patronizing and patted her on the head as he left the room.
The school administration got involved and made him jump through all kinds of hoops to make amends.
But the worst was he had to send a letter to ALL of the colleges he applied to that he had been adjudicated as to have committed an act of unpermitted touching of another student.
He had expected to go to an Ivy League school but ended up having to take a gap year because he was not accepted at any college he applied to.
The family is now suing the school!