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[SerArthurDayne]

People often say assault when they mean battery. Many states have combined assault and battery, probably in part because of that confusion. Tennessee seems to be one of those states. So it doesn't matter, except perhaps to the level of charge, where sometimes "verbal assault" will be less than "physical assault" which can be aggravated by causing pain/injury and further by serious bodily injury or for other reasons.

edit: I guess I should clarify a bit. They were combined because they often go together. If I draw back my fist as if to punch you that is assault because it cause you to fear I will hit you, but if I follow through and hit you then it would become battery under a common or traditional definition, assault and battery both chargeable. If you didn't see me coming and I hit you on the back of the head that would only be battery and so on. Combining allows the same charge to be made at different levels, and you don't have to worry about issues like attempted battery if you miss, but you are still dealing with assault.

 

[jamesinclair]

Assault is the fear of the touching, whereas battery is the actual touching?

Right, assault is a threat of violence (the screaming) while battery is the touching (the grabbing).

This was most certainly assault.

 

[LAUGHTREY]

 

[Lazy vs Crazy]

Stuff like this should be jailable.

 

[soultron]

Fire the principal.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Principal probably has something to hide. The physical nature of the altercation and the phrase "Who's the big man now?" are just too weird.

 

[Zabka]

We got your back is gay now? This explains everything!

Obama to Afghanistan Bound Troops: 'I've Got Your Back'

Explains his push for the DADT repeal.

 

[KingK]

I got pushed into a bunch of lockers on the way back from lunch by a substitute teacher. I laughed at him and told him he was stupid to do that in front of witnesses. Granted I was an asshole to him in every class I ever had with him so I probably had it coming. I didn't do anything about the "incident" though cause it wasn't anything over the top.

Shit, my gym teacher knocked a kid down for running 4 feet into the girls section of the gym when we were doing laps.

My gym teacher once grabbed a kid by the throat and lifted him off the ground for talking back/cursing at him. This was freshman year of high school. That teacher was a dick. He also made gay jokes about two of my friends (who weren't even gay) and mocked some friends and I for liking Star Wars.

 

[Koomaster]

Surprised they allowed this on tv. Look at that erect pencil snapped in half, so sexually suggestive. Plus 'Down With Homework' is just an anagram for 'Who Work With Demon'. A shirt promoting both sex and satanism.

Won't someone please think of the children?!

 

[Dead Man]

What the fuck is wrong with people?

 

[CornBurrito]

Defied Data is really grasping at straws to turn a common nonsexual phrase into a sexual one.

Oh my god grasping at straws can be seen as sexual!!!!

 

[ivysaur12]

Defied Data is really grasping at straws to turn a common nonsexual phrase into a sexual one.

Oh my god grasping at straws can be seen as sexual!!!!

Handjobs everywhere.

 

[Enron]

This guy is going to lose his job.

 

[CornBurrito]

Handjobs everywhere.

Your name is sexually suggestive too. Ivysaur sounds like I vy sore. Sore as in sore asshole after a pounding. And ivy = I'm very. And the 12 obviously refers to length.

"I'm very sore from that 12 in cock" = Ivysaur12.

 

[Curufinwe]

In the US, civil liberties absolutely do exist for kids who wear sniggery shirts to school.
Your right to free speech is inalienable.

So schools that require pupils to wear uniforms are unconstitutional? Nope.

http://www.acluutah.org/uniforms.htm

The most recent federal court to address mandatory school uniform policies was the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In two separate cases, Littlefield v. Forney Indep. Sch. Dist., 268 F.3d 275 (5th Cir. 2001) and Canady v. Bossier Parish Sch. Bd., 240 F.3d 437 (5th Cir. 2001), the Fifth Circuit held that mandatory school uniforms do not violate the Constitution. The school uniform policies at issue in these cases are similar to Utah's new dress code policy requiring solid color shirts and pants, allowing little variety in style and fabrics, and granting few exceptions to the policies. The court ruled the policy is constitutional, reasoning that the policy furthered an "important and substantial governmental interest," improving the educational process, and that "federal courts should defer to school boards to decide, within constitutional bounds, what constitutes appropriate behavior and dress in public schools."

 

[chronos4590]

What a piece of turd principal. Its awesome to see the students try to get a gsa going even with that bullshitery going on at the school. Hope he gets what he deserves.Homophobia in school especially high school is sick. My music theory teacher restarted a gsa group during my last year of high school. Thankfully my school was fairly open minded and we very very rarely had conflicts because of orientation. We did eventually of course, my teachers tires got slashed. That's the only incident i know of. I don't think people realize how important these type of support groups are and the more attention they get, hopefully the more support in schools will follow.

 

[WickedAngel]

a club where students can get together in a safe environment and talk about GLBT issues as well as work at raising awareness of those issues within a school.

"Principal proves that there is a need for a campus GSA by attacking the proponents of a local GSA."

 

[Nix]

Wait, I'm confused. Is this guy saying he wants to have anal sex with the principal?

Nah, seemed to imply he wanted to just do some light grinding. Seems appropriate giving the circumstances- gotta find out who's the bigger man.

 

[sky]

What the fuck? I swear how did he think he could get away with that?

That's what struck me first as well... it's mindboggling to think he didn't stop and realize that this would get reported.

 

[Kisaya]

This is why I'm glad my parents got out Tennessee before I was born.

 

[Shogmaster]

Sorry. It may refer to anal sex. The school seems to think so, anyway.

"Did you just tell me 'welcome back'? You clearly want my penis up your anus..."

 

[HeadlessRoland]

That's what struck me first as well... it's mindboggling to think he didn't stop and realize that this would get reported.

Its so absurd it makes me dubious of the reporting.

 

[Conciliator]

According to both students, Moser then grabbed Sigler’s arm, shoved him, and chest-bumped him repeatedly while asking “Who’s the big man now?” Sigler’s mother reported that when she arrived at the school, she saw her son seated in a desk with Moser leaning over him and shouting in Sigler’s face. The Siglers filed a report about the incident that afternoon with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.

Come on, Moser, just get it over it with and have a roll in the hay with some beautiful young buck. You'll feel so much better once you get your sexual frustration off your back. (get it? 'back' means gay sex)

 

[Wthermans]

Stuff like this should be jailable.

Ahhh...just what we need. A prison system that's even MORE overcrowded with non-violent criminals!

 

[Dead Man]

"Principal proves that there is a need for a campus GSA by attacking the proponents of a local GSA."

Indeed.

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

not sure how being non violent makes it ok to not arrest someone.

 

[magicstop]

Ahhh...just what we need. A prison system that's even MORE overcrowded with non-violent criminals!

Pretty sure he was assaulting a kid for his t-shirt choice?

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Ahhh...just what we need. A prison system that's even MORE overcrowded with non-violent criminals!

off with his head

 

[Wthermans]

Pretty sure he was assaulting a kid for his t-shirt choice?

Did the kid have physical wounds from this assault? If not, the assailant could serve some time in the county jail but it's a waste to put him into the prison system when there are others that are more deserving of that role. Unless you're in favor of expanding the prison system even moreso than it already is. Rehabilitation > incarceration.

not sure how being non violent makes it ok to not arrest someone.

OK, arrest them, just don't incarcerate them and crowd up an already overcrowded prison system.

 

[2th]

And my state continues to be an embarrassment.

 

[DR2K]

Ahhh...just what we need. A prison system that's even MORE overcrowded with non-violent criminals!

Assaulting is non-violent? Are you fucking kidding me?

 

[LuCkymoON]

I thought this would be about the General Services Administration.

 

[magicstop]

Did the kid have physical wounds from this assault? If not, the assailant could serve some time in the county jail but it's a waste to put him into the prison system when there are others that are more deserving of that role. Unless you're in favor of expanding the prison system even moreso than it already is. Rehabilitation > incarceration.


OK, arrest them, just don't incarcerate them and crowd up an already overcrowded prison system.

Incarcerate marijuana dealers? Nope.
Incarcerate marijuana smokers? Nope.
Incarcerate public drunks? Probably not, or only until they sober up.
Incarcerate principles that get so enraged about sexual orientation that they physically assault children? Yep. Fuck yep, even.

 

[TxdoHawk]

I'd expect this kind of behavior from an ignorant student, sure, or maybe even one of your poorer teachers. But the principal? Nuke the school from orbit and start over please, because if this is the behavior at the top I doubt anything underneath is worth saving.

 

[akira28]

This will make sure we have the GSA's back when this issue comes up. I didn't know about them, but I'm certainly in favor. That principal is so insecure. He should lose his job over that alone.

Yeah I thought someone went apeshit on some anti government GSA screed.