Our day in court
Today we received "notice to subject" paperwork from the local Juvenile Court, to answer complaints that Robert has committed assault and battery and disturbing a lawful assembly. All this, for kicking his teacher.
Our court date is October 20th.
And yes, we've found a lawyer who might represent us. We're hoping to meet with him next week to see if he's the right match.
I don't defend his actions, but I find this reaction to his behavior completely out of proportion to the offense. He's a ten year old boy, for god's sake. And I saw the teacher a week after the incident -- she was walking just fine, without a limp.
Comments
This is certainly an over-reaction, however, it may be a school district policy which was written for some much more heinous offense and is now used to incompass all infractions for fear someone will think it isn't being enforced. Similar to the time when some kid popped Mel in the nose in middle school and the police had to be called. She was fine, not even a bloody nose...but school policy required it.
Posted by: Suellen | October 11, 2005 07:39 PM