Tolerance, Zero Tolerance
Christian Stanfield, 15, said he was bullied for months, but officials at Pennsylvania’s South Fayette High School did nothing about it. He thought they needed “some kind of evidence, some way to understand what I was going through,” he said. So he recorded the bullies on his iPad. His family went to the school’s principal, and that’s when tolerance turned to zero tolerance — but not quite as Stanfield hoped. Officials made Stanfield delete his recording and gave him detention, and principal Scott Milburn called the police, who charged Stanfield with disorderly conduct. The local district attorney’s office dropped the charge. “We do not believe this behavior rises to the level of a citation,” said a spokesman. (AC/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, WTAE Pittsburgh, New York Daily News) ...Really? Isn’t there something you can get Milburn on?Original Publication Date: 11 May 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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