http://aattp.org/special-ed-student...tormenting-him-accused-of-felony-wiretapping/ I'm sorry, this does hit me hard personally, so... This... This just shakes me to the core. This kid reminds me of my brother, someone who had cigarette burns on his arms, someone who for his senior photo had him slumped against his locker crying with his head down, shown to the whole school and laughed at, someone who got smacked on the back of head constantly, and he had a disability. And the teachers didn't do ****, not one ****ing thing... I asked my mom once... After Columbine... If my brother would've done the same thing if he had the chance... If he knew... And she said most likely he would've. The fact this happens to this kid... And charged, and TRIED and declared guilty... I can't go on... But I wanted to pass this on.
These things. These things piss me off so much. I hate hate hate how nobody seems to want to blame bullies of ANY sort for anything anymore. Nooooo, we have to protect people! Well, what about the people who actually need protecting?
i was in school during the 1990's... It was the same thing, though the COPS did actually DO something back then. Hell, one teacher I had encouraged the bullying. Screamed insults in front of the classroom at me and encouraged the other kids to bully me. Even formed a: "I hate Sara Club" which my best friend at the time joined and told me she did in a note. My mom almost decked the teacher and physically threatened her if she did anything to me again, she would make her life a living hell for every moment afterwards. That's what finally stopped it. Though the bullies continued, one of them actually stuck a stick in my spokes of the back wheel of my bike when I was trying to get away from her at full speed on my bike. I crashed to the pavement with no helmet on. Luckily I was in a public street and the neighbors heard me screaming bloody murder from the shock of the impact, I was okay, a bump on my head and several scabs. i don't know what they said to to the bully afterwards, but my mom threatened to call the police if she got near me again. She never touched me after that, then later a kid spit all over my mom's windshield. The cops stepped in for that one and got the school to stop it. I can't imagine what it would be like today if ONE incident the cops said: "This is your fault, you provoked her, you asked her to put that stick in your spokes, you weaved into traffic to avoid her causing the accident and you're being arrested for reckless endangerment." Or: "You parked your car where he could spit easily, and you were parked illegally, sorry, you have to go to jail while the bully walks away with nothing."
Excuse me while I take a moment to insert a joke that I would tell the judge if I heard him Now for the serious part: I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong. I don't get how you can actually hear a recording of someone being bullied, while they had learning disabilities, and trying to do school like anyone else, and yet you choose to decide that the child had done something wrong by recording and showing what was happening to him. Teachers and adults are always saying they should get them if they need help, and yet when the student actually does something to show that he needs them, the principal goes and says "he had made a recording in a place where there is an expectation of privacy." Excuse me while I wonder how the bullies aren't messing with privacy by tormenting this kid. This case better be brought to a court where the judge has some common sense. And I also don't think they should be ignoring the fact that there are kids just walking around with lighters as well. They shouldn't even have a need for one of those
I'm disappointed at the way our so called, "defenders of the law" interpret things these days. This is just sad, really sad. I mean, WIRETAPPING? Expectation of PRIVACY? I mean...I guess? But what else was he supposed to do? Tell the teacher or principle and watch as they do nothing because they don't have TIME? The fact that they just saw things in BLACK and WHITE as opposed to concentrating their efforts on the REAL issue, which was to look for some sort of disciplinary measure on the bullies just brings up indignant anger in me. And why the heck wasn't the teacher even defending him to begin with? I remember back then when teachers were REALLY strict with the way their students behaved in class. If you even so much as uttered a curse word, they'd give you a detention slip. Very disappointing... I hope the child makes it through this. Hopefully he's found not guilty, because WOW....some Judgement from the Judge, huh?
https://www.change.org/petitions/pe...nia-state-senate-fire-principal-scott-milburn http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitio...wiretapping-charges-against-a-bullied-student Petitions for the Principal being fired and the charges being dropped against he child being charged. I hope both pass, there should honestly be a fundraiser to get this kid a good attorney to go to state appeal court. If not the supreme court.
Meant to post here before, but I signed both petitions. Wish there was more I could do for this kid. The fact that he was only doing it to prove what they were doing to him... Oy, come on people. He probably had no concept of the legality of it at all.
