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Ok Pogo, there's your queue. Let her have it.Sounds like the kid had a target list of other students they intended to physically harm.
That's what I thought. He wrote a list of students on the footy team he wanted to hit. Whether he was joking or not isn't the point - he carried that paper around with him for some reason.
When the teacher demanded he hand her the paper, he lashed out.
He deserves his suspension.
Right, I'm on it...
Hey Noomi --
(What? Noomi never called me a racist, thus the difference.)
I think the main ingredient gone out of control here is what we've done with the concept of "assault" -- cheapened and dumbed down the word to mean absolutely nothing. If you attack me and I continue breathing, that's called "assault" now, and that's a heap of flaming bullshit.
I don't have a link any more but somebody around here posted a video months ago of a Canadian being harassed at a border stop. At some point the border goon told the driver that what he did by not turning over his keys to the agent was "assault".
What a crock of steaming cow flop. When you've had a quart beer bottle broken over your face and hear the blood splashing in your lap and your cheek swells to the size of a grapefruit and you spend the rest of the night in the emergency room getting your upper lip and a tendon in your ring finger stitched back together, THAT is assault. This on the other hand is bullshit.
In this case the teacher from what we know is crying "assault" for the 14-year-old's action of playing keepaway with the teacher -- an action during which, according to the boy and the eyewitnesses, the teacher was laughing.
Many miles I've traveled, ten thousand miles or more, but a victim of assault laughing her way through it, I've never seen before.
We're in deep deep doodoo if playing keepaway or declining to turn over your car keys is "assault". We need to collectively grow a freaking pair. So to speak.
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