the gun issue.
What if a person at a public street curb formed both hands into fists and lunged and swung at other people closeby, and connected?
Ditto a butter knife/table knife?
What if a person gripped a heavy, hardback textbook and swung it at people closeby, and randomly connected?
Ditto an airsoft or pellet gun.
Aren't all the above actions battery under state criminal statutes?
IMO, a person doing the above is committing a criminal act (maybe a minor, little-bitty, teensy battery, depending on circumstances and injuries, but nonetheless a criminal act).
If the person is an adult, possibly a regular criminal proceeding.
If a minor, possibly a juvie proceeding.
For the posters who said it happened on private property, so school should not have butted in...
Since the case at hand involves students at a busstop, seems logical for the school to investigate and to consider discipline against the student committing the battery.
As the chairman of the school bd. said, other students have the right to go to the busstop without being shot at by a pellet gun.
We've not seen all the info from police reports, school's reports, etc.
Would I have made the same decision as the school's disciplinary committee, if I had been on it?
It seems the committee's decision would have been 'cleaner' re Khlalid if it had banned him from the school bus.
But the suspension, with possible return to same school after a Jan. hearing, does not seem unreasonable,
in light of Khalid's disciplinary history and these pellet gun acts.
The other kids? IDK.
JM:twocents:.