And to say this will follow him on some magical permanent record is wrong.

Here's an article with more information than given in your OP.

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A couple of snippets:

'The disciplinary action taken by St. Gabriel Consolidated School a year ago against two students has been widely mischaracterized by a parent who unsuccessfully sued the school. Two seventh-grade males, one white and one black, were suspended for one day because of actions that far exceeded ‘staring.’

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The student whose mother sued acknowledged in an apology note, and under oath at trial, that his actions intimidated the female student and made her uncomfortable. That student also admitted that he was not friends with the female student, that he never told her they were playing any kind of game, that he approached her without saying anything, and that when she backed away from him, he moved closer to her. Once that student stopped, the other boy continued with the same routine.

The incident was investigated by the school and all three students were interviewed by two seventh-grade teachers and St. Gabriel’s principal. Ultimately, the boys were given a one-day suspension. St. Gabriel’s parent-student handbook, which the male student and his parents signed and agreed to follow, explicitly lists intimidation as conduct that may result in a suspension.

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Emphasis added.

Link: http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/12yearold-ohio-boy-suspended-staring-at-another-student-21028.shtml

I spoke to the mother for a very long time. I have the deposition done under oath by the principal, the court documents, and all notes leading up to why the parents sued. One of the reason I requested all this information before reporting on this issue is that I knew selective comments like the above would ensue. What does exceeding staring mean? Who was present to determine that there were occurrences far exceeding staring?

You see that phrase is used to leave in ones psyche that there was something more. No one can corroborate anything more. Likewise the female student show absolutely no fear throughout the day.

This was a miscarriage of justice. Because of societal misconceptions, anything that involves black males tend to take on a severe punishment relative to the population at large. This is not conjecture but proven over and over by the numbers and facts.

I attempt to explain in the article I wrote about this issue here -> http://egbertowillies.com/2015/10/09/racism-12-yr-old-black-boy-suspended/ .

[div class="excerpts"]The Handbook contains a number of guidelines addressing discipline, including demerits, detention·s, in-school’ suspension, and out-of-school suspension:

Demerits;· which accumulate by trimester, constitute the lowest level of discipline.
Infractions such as fighting, truancy, stealing, and harassment or threatening behavior result in 5 demerits.
When a student accumulates 10 demerits in one trimester, he receives a detention.
When a student accumulates 20 demerits, he receives a ·second detention.
30 demerits result in a third detention, plus an in-school suspension.
Further problems in a trimester “can lead to an out-of-school suspension”.



It appears to be a quote of some article(?) that grabbed several points from the school handbook, pages 15 and 16. http://www.stgabeschool.org/incs/2014-15%20Handbook.pdf

However, what is not included is the information from pages 18 and 19 on bullying; its definition and consequences.

then we should act like it didn't happen? Why did you leave out the part where it was two boys- because that might give credence to her claim to be intimidated?

you representing both? You taking this to the top!

Let's leave race out of it since it may be irrelevant. The girl has the right to go to school without being harassed, stalked, or intimidated. I don't know if that is what is going on or if it was something innocence - just a boy with a crush. I don't think we should rush to judgement.

Why don't you mention that a white boy was also suspended and that the reason given by the school was intimidation? I think you are intentionally presenting only a small piece of this story in order to skew readers' perceptions.

But of course, I wasn't.

What if I claim that it constitutes "intimidation" for someone who I don't like to even look at me at all?

It all seems very vague.

Learing and physically walking into somebodies space as they move away are two different things-

Letter he wrote looks like 3rd or 4th. Actually close to how my daughter is doing and she just started school LOL--


Oh-

and you missed this part as well dude in video-


"The student whose mother sued acknowledged in an apology note, and under oath at trial, that his actions intimidated the female student and made her uncomfortable. That student also admitted that he was not friends with the female student, that he never told her they were playing any kind of game, that he approached her without saying anything, and that when she backed away from him, he moved closer to her. Once that student stopped, the other boy continued with the same routine."