A scenario playing out like this is too far-fetched to be a rationale for any course of action. In most people’s experience, calls to police for things like this do not result in police officers arriving on the scene. Therefore if any action is to be taken it’s up to us to do it ourselves.

Ha ok never mind then :).

I think her point re: the wedding ring was more along the lines of “I know you can’t be prosecuted for this since it’s not a crime, but aha I see you do have something in your life that can be affected by this behavior coming to light”.

Are you implying that without solid proof of what he was doing, we should simply dismiss her account? If that’s your point then explain why a woman would detour from whatever she was doing to pursue a stranger in this fashion. You are assuming 1) she is mentally unstable enough to seek attention at someone else’s…

at the very least I hope he’s shitting his fucking pants.

Why call the police for no reason? I agree there are situations where pursuing the dude would be too dangerous to risk but this was a busy street during the day, I might have weighed the risk/reward and made the same choice as her. Something has to be done about people like this, and she did not break any laws. I say…

Seriously I was nervous too but she fucking nailed it. Great job on her part.

And that’s just the thing - the treatment you received was not “special” it was “appropriate”. What this girl has received is abuse. Anyone who cannot recognize the prejudice here is blind and cruel.

As the story goes she was pleading apologetically to stay in the class because she did not want to be in trouble. The odd and adversarial behavior here is on the part of the teacher who refused her and the thug who piledrove her.

You’re right this was clearly the only option. Weird how my school was able to handle shit like this without calling in a hired thug. I guess teenagers are just fundamentally different now!

It’s pretty annoying but the way I look at it is that humans do that with a lot of things, not just veganism. At least phases of being vegan actually do result in a few less animals getting killed for meat, regardless of their mindset/intentions. People who throw stones at vegans are gonna do that no matter what.

I went to Ireland several years ago (I’m vegan) and was pleasantly surprised. I didn’t meet a lot of vegans and certainly traditional foods are meat heavy but even the people who were unfamiliar with the concept were curious, pleasant and eager to please. Also, there were veggie burgers in a common fast food…

I don’t think your argument is lost on anyone. I think everyone is just sort of grossed out that you’re so intent on winning it when the distinction in terms of how it affects a child’s mental state, which is the issue here, is so small. But whatevs you’re probably just trolling at this point.

Both of your examples below describe a mother walking out on her kid:

Hmm, I’m gonna diagnose this as a case of Ann Coulter. A check is a check I guess.

Also: learn nothing, do nothing, just pay your way through life.

If only someone had been there to toss you around like a rag doll and nearly shatter your skull, then you would have snapped out of it! Thank god we know better now.

Wow it’s almost as if your teacher fucking cared about you! Whoever heard of such a thing?

I remember when I was a kid that things like this took a few minutes to process. Most of them were probably in shock/disbelief/fear. That’s why we look back and wish we could relive things with an adult perspective.

I disagree that a disruptive student requires a security guard. I’ve seen it mentioned elsewhere that teachers will commonly slide a desk out of the room, that seems like a possible option. To my mind the teacher should simply have moved on and addressed this student after class, or simply said, “ok, you get this many…