04-17-2014, 12:50 PM
Good news that the conviction was thrown out -- sometimes the media is a very helpful ally.
I read a little more about the story at different sources last night.
Christian taped the incident inside his math classroom while class was in session. The school places kids with learning disorders and those with behavioral problems in the same special ed class. That, in itself, sucks -- but, it's common with school budgets being what they are.
Anyway, when the math teacher was helping Christian with a problem, one of his classmates said they should pull his pants down and another one said no way because it would smell. The teacher told the kids to stop talking about anything other than math. Later, one of the classmates dropped a book near Christian and it made a loud noise. The teacher reprimanded the kid who proclaimed, "what, I only wanted to scare him."
To the best of my knowledge (based on reading 6 or 7 stories), Christian only played the tape for his mom and she only played it for the principal. Wrong assumption on my part upthread that they must have played it for others and the classmates must have filed complaints in order for Christian to have wound up in court. Sounds like it was in fact the principal who decided to call police rather than address the issue with Christian's harassers and that LE pushed for obstruction charges even though it doesn't seem Christian or his mom refused to do what the officers asked.
Surprising to me that a principal, LE, and a judge would all be so asinine as to press charges and convict Christian of anything if that's the whole story, but I guess it shouldn't be.
I read a little more about the story at different sources last night.
Christian taped the incident inside his math classroom while class was in session. The school places kids with learning disorders and those with behavioral problems in the same special ed class. That, in itself, sucks -- but, it's common with school budgets being what they are.
Anyway, when the math teacher was helping Christian with a problem, one of his classmates said they should pull his pants down and another one said no way because it would smell. The teacher told the kids to stop talking about anything other than math. Later, one of the classmates dropped a book near Christian and it made a loud noise. The teacher reprimanded the kid who proclaimed, "what, I only wanted to scare him."
To the best of my knowledge (based on reading 6 or 7 stories), Christian only played the tape for his mom and she only played it for the principal. Wrong assumption on my part upthread that they must have played it for others and the classmates must have filed complaints in order for Christian to have wound up in court. Sounds like it was in fact the principal who decided to call police rather than address the issue with Christian's harassers and that LE pushed for obstruction charges even though it doesn't seem Christian or his mom refused to do what the officers asked.
Surprising to me that a principal, LE, and a judge would all be so asinine as to press charges and convict Christian of anything if that's the whole story, but I guess it shouldn't be.