http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/25/1424913/-California-teen-stopped-a-bully-from-beating-a-blind-student-ends-up-getting-suspended?detail=email
A Huntington Beach, California high school student attacked a blind student as others stood around with their phones out to film the violent bullying. Another student jumped in and threw one punch at the bully, knocking him to the ground and then turned to the bully's friends:
And then he yells at the alleged attacker’s friends, “He’s punching a [expletive] blind kid, bro!”
As he walks away holding the victim, the hero turns one final time and says, “I swear to God, if you [expletive, expletive] with this kid again, I will [expletive] you up!”
The bully was arrested for misdemeanor battery and released to his parents. Police said they do not intend to charge the teen who intervened. His fellow classmates are calling him a hero, but school officials felt otherwise—reportedly suspending him from school and kicking him off the football team for breaking the school's no violence policy.
Students, parents and community members are rallying around the student, asking school administrators to reconsider the punishment:
A petition to get him reinstated on the team has now been launched online, which stands by the high school student's actions.
The campaign's website states: 'We believe (the teenager) should be back on his football team and back in school where he belongs. While violence is never the best option what Cody did to defend his friend and classmate was justified.
The petition already has 30,000 signatures.
School administrators are in a tough position, but is the "zero tolerance" approach in this case worth Cody Pine getting suspended and kicked off the football team? Is that really best for the student body as a whole?
what is with these school officials they are taking on the persona of right wing policies and punishing the more humane and empathetic kids who see a wrong and do something other than blow up the facebook and instagram pages with pictures and asinine juvenile cracks. are they setting the stage for the next crop of republican politicians while demonizing the more Progressive students either way what kind of message are they sending when they essentially refuse to protect a blind student and what if the student weren't blind but gay or transgender or Black, Brown or any other target for their bigotry?????????????
