At my old high school in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a situation occured. A student was supended for "instigating a fight" because she had a family friend pick her up from homecoming when another student, accused of sexual molesting her, started to make her feel uncomfortable and began talking about her behind her back. A little while after being picked up, the accused was hit in the face, but not by the family friend. The police showed up and the accused said he did not want to press charges. The next day the accused parents came in, claimed the accused was beaten up on school property by the family friend. Without asking the police, and even the SRO officers who were outside and did not witness the said "beating up," (because it didn't happen), the school administartion suspened the student; an honor student, student body vice president, and member of the school Forensics Team.
This situation just illustrates one of the many problems in our schools today, how can a student learn if she is frightned for her well being and being punished for being the victim of a henious act. This is a completely ridiculous and outrageous situation, and I cannot believe injustices like this occur even within the heirarchy of our public schools.
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I completely agree; this is ridiculous. A similar situation happened to one of my friends in high school and it changed her. She went to a different high school than me and the people at her school took part in protests to try to get her back in school. The school wouldn't change its decision even though I think they knew it was ridiculous.
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Wow, I couldn't agree more. This is absurd!! And the sad thing is it's becoming more common in public schools today.
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