12-16-2006, 03:10 AM
The kids parents should press criminal charges against the individuals and the school principal, then file civil suit against the individuals involved including the students and their parents, the vice principal, the principal, school and school board.
My brother was involved with something like this when he was a freshman in high school. My parents immediately (the next day) pressed criminal and civil charges. The police didn't want to deal with it until my parent's lawyer presented case and threaten to sue the police including the police cheif for not doing their job. The school immediately when into disarray, meetings were called, school officials wanted to talk to my parents and brother without their lawyer (didnt happen), a school board meeting on violence was called, my parent lawyer subpenaed all the schools security tapes from the day. It was a real mess.
It ended with the individuals in the assault were found guilty of assault and a couple other charges and spend time in criminal detention. The school paid half the charges and the principal paid half in the civil case, the parents of the individual attackers paid a good amount of money in the case brought against them. All this cash padded my brother's college account.
The funniest part of the whole thing is that my brother was suspended for a week due to a zero tolerance on violence because he fought back. The court ordered the school to removed any entry in his record, but it came up again when he applied to college because the school removed file but left the entry.
Nothing leaves a bad taste in your mouth like having to pay court ordered money.
My brother was involved with something like this when he was a freshman in high school. My parents immediately (the next day) pressed criminal and civil charges. The police didn't want to deal with it until my parent's lawyer presented case and threaten to sue the police including the police cheif for not doing their job. The school immediately when into disarray, meetings were called, school officials wanted to talk to my parents and brother without their lawyer (didnt happen), a school board meeting on violence was called, my parent lawyer subpenaed all the schools security tapes from the day. It was a real mess.
It ended with the individuals in the assault were found guilty of assault and a couple other charges and spend time in criminal detention. The school paid half the charges and the principal paid half in the civil case, the parents of the individual attackers paid a good amount of money in the case brought against them. All this cash padded my brother's college account.
The funniest part of the whole thing is that my brother was suspended for a week due to a zero tolerance on violence because he fought back. The court ordered the school to removed any entry in his record, but it came up again when he applied to college because the school removed file but left the entry.
Nothing leaves a bad taste in your mouth like having to pay court ordered money.