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yellowchef · 12-22-2004, 11:38 PM

Its assult, and I AGREE that it is assult. However it was handled very poorly.

As parents, and especially parents of friends I would always think to go to the parents first unless she had physically harmed, bruised, stabbed, cut, or caused pain. Then and only then would I even imagine getting the law involved. Its such a headache and hassle not only for the 2 families but for the individual officer as well. It happened on the school bus which here means school property and thats probably why its zero tolerance.

A similar event happened to my younger brother. Hes 17, a senior in high school and an ok kid. He behaves and hasnt caused too much upset among his teachers(he hasnt been to see the principle or even detention for that matter) because he likes ROTC and he knows to stay out of trouble. Well he was goofin around one day with some of the kids from band and as part of "initiation" to the freshman they had a game of full contact football. Somehow a freshman got hurt and my brother and 2 of his friends were charged with assult and battery. The assult was "you're goin down you dumb freshman" and apparently they tackled this freshman(individually during the game) and he was hurt with a sprained ankle. To me this is minor and if there was such pain.. parents should have been called, or school officals can handle it since we have our own School Resource Officer(aka county sheriff) or the parents could have called the band directors since the school is pretty leniant by letting the band directors deal with band issues. Insted these parents went to the ER filed a report and my brother and his friends were arrested!!

My parents are fighting it since the kid is old enough to make his own decisions on wheather on not to play football, and the rest of the kids who played ball are not claiming any injury or force to play the game. My brother is also lucky that no matter what this will all be sealed from his adult records since my parents know people. The family is suing for over 3 million from each kid in "damages" and "suffering" when this kid has never even gone to a therapist.

Everyones parents think this has been blown out of proportion and its costing the other 2 kids an arm and a leg in court fees and my parents attorney has taken this case on pro bono so theyre not being represented by the DA(but our DA is a good guy since this is a small area) and hes doing it to take a load off the DA. Its sad what this country has come to, but when people know they might win a few bucks by suing someone... hey they'll do it.

12-22-2004, 11:38 PM	#19 (permalink)
yellowchef Addict Location: Shalimar, FL	Its assult, and I AGREE that it is assult. However it was handled very poorly. As parents, and especially parents of friends I would always think to go to the parents first unless she had physically harmed, bruised, stabbed, cut, or caused pain. Then and only then would I even imagine getting the law involved. Its such a headache and hassle not only for the 2 families but for the individual officer as well. It happened on the school bus which here means school property and thats probably why its zero tolerance. A similar event happened to my younger brother. Hes 17, a senior in high school and an ok kid. He behaves and hasnt caused too much upset among his teachers(he hasnt been to see the principle or even detention for that matter) because he likes ROTC and he knows to stay out of trouble. Well he was goofin around one day with some of the kids from band and as part of "initiation" to the freshman they had a game of full contact football. Somehow a freshman got hurt and my brother and 2 of his friends were charged with assult and battery. The assult was "you're goin down you dumb freshman" and apparently they tackled this freshman(individually during the game) and he was hurt with a sprained ankle. To me this is minor and if there was such pain.. parents should have been called, or school officals can handle it since we have our own School Resource Officer(aka county sheriff) or the parents could have called the band directors since the school is pretty leniant by letting the band directors deal with band issues. Insted these parents went to the ER filed a report and my brother and his friends were arrested!! My parents are fighting it since the kid is old enough to make his own decisions on wheather on not to play football, and the rest of the kids who played ball are not claiming any injury or force to play the game. My brother is also lucky that no matter what this will all be sealed from his adult records since my parents know people. The family is suing for over 3 million from each kid in "damages" and "suffering" when this kid has never even gone to a therapist. Everyones parents think this has been blown out of proportion and its costing the other 2 kids an arm and a leg in court fees and my parents attorney has taken this case on pro bono so theyre not being represented by the DA(but our DA is a good guy since this is a small area) and hes doing it to take a load off the DA. Its sad what this country has come to, but when people know they might win a few bucks by suing someone... hey they'll do it.