Unfair treatment

A female student recently alleged that she was harrassed and offended by a male student. She has been friends with him since the beginning of the year, she generally approached him, To make it short she got upset 1 day at school and decided to ruin his life. NO investigation was done, NO one made ANY attempt to verify the truth of what she claims. The male student has been verbally abused by Mr Falzoi. The male student will likely be suspended till next year even though the charges against him are stupid and insignificant. The Superintendents hearing is a kangaroo court with no fairness, justice or even common sense. Boys be very careful around girls as the message from the school board is girls can say ANYTHING they want and you will be allowed NO defense, or justice. And boys if you're over 16 and this happens I suggest you start praying while you kiss your future goodbye

Interesting ... Would the author of this please let me know where to contact him or her?

We have also had a family member overly punnished in the Kangaroo Court that is Dansville High. The arbitration hearing is a joke! Once again it's all about "name recognition". Dansville ranks right up there with Mt. Morris.

Fan of common sense it seems you may need some help. Did you have the Livingston County Youth Advocate involved? If not, it probably isn't too late. They may be able to help. Good luck to you. I can only imagine what it's like to be accused of something you are innocent of. It's a shame that it has been allowed to interfere with your education. Do the best you can to keep your life on track regardless of the situation. Believe it or not it will soon be in your past. Hang in there!

I didn't even know there was a youth advocate. Right now the student in question is recieving no help, except tutoring 2 hrs a day, only some of his work, no transportation. The student in question is suspended for 7 mths for a first offence disruptive behaviour. They had decided on the punishment as soon as the girl complained. At the superintendents hearing they had to drop everything except dis. behav. but it didn't make a bit of difference. So why bother to have a hearing at all.

I think this would warrant a call to your representative in Albany or a phone call to the ACLU.

The students family has hired a lawyer and the ACLU They plan on appealing due to illegalities in the first hearing.

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Interesting ... Would the author of this please let me know where to contact him or her?

I'd be happy to contact you if you could send me your contact info

In spite of the school district the male student did manage to ace his end of the year exam's. If this girl so much as looks at my son again I will haul her into civil court and get a res. order against her. My son has suffered enough on her behalf.

women, all a big pain

Congratulations on aceing your exams! Guess you showed them! LOL Good luck next year in school, try hard to put this mess behind you. Definately stay away from the girl. You have your whole future ahead of you. I'm glad to hear you didn't let this incident bring you totally down.

ooooh my god my son is going through the exact same thing but my son is african american and the girl in question is white.He goes to Triton high school in Runnemede, NJ . His case is as one sided the vice princapel told me him self he only investagated her side of the story and find it to be crelditable he did even questition my son's witness. This girl sais my son was saying vulgar things to her from day one of school it is now day 18 and on this day she called his hat ugly so he called her fat (yes she is) so she went to her guidance counsler to tell him she thinks she is being sexually harrashed and want her to two class that she has with him changed. Could some one please give me advice on were to go for help and what to do because this vie principal has been harrashing my son from day one of ninth grade he is now a jr.

Just to play the Devil's Advocate on this topic, we are only hearing one side of the story. As you stated, the hearing conducted only included the testimony of the girl and found it as fact. I do not know the other side of the story, so I cannot make judgement, nor would I try. If we are only hearing your version of the story, how fair is it to put blame on the girl (it's not.) Maybe your son DID indeed cross that line of civil language. It does not matter if he knew her for a year, a life-time or for 2 seconds. If he said something sexually intimidating or harrassing her, then it is still wrong and he should pay the consequences now and learn from it rather than not learning now and suffer more adult consequences later. In court, lawyers play the same cards concerning women. It does not matter if it is date rape or stranger rape- it is still rape. Your son did not do this latter felony, but to relate it- it does not matter if he knew her or not. It is irrelevant and he should not say sexually derogative or explicit things to strangers or friends. If you had a daughter that these things were said to, then you may agree. There is a lesson to be learned in this situation and I am most certain that your son is not learning one because you are protecting (enabling) him from the harsh truths of society. It is time for all young men to know that it is unacceptable to use sexually harrassing things to girls. Hopefully by going through this, your son will learn regardless of your inability to see through his cover up.