Injustice

Doesn't injustice just drive you crazy? It makes me feel like I could breath flames.

Ok, so here is the story. I teach at a local High School. We have several exchange students from South America. One exchange student (I'll call him Boy A) is in my class and he is living with the family of another boy (Boy B) who is also in my class. So what happened is this...

Last Monday Boy B decided that he and 9 other students (friends & girlfriends) would skip school and stay home and play video games.

Boy A also stayed home, in bed, and slept all day, while they all played video games. The other students all said this was the case.

They all had parents call in to the school and lie for them so their absences would be excused.

Boy A, the exchange student, did not have anyone to call him in, so, he got 2 days of In School Suspension, which means he will spend 2 days sitting in a cubby hole painted black, in isolation, on a short stool. He will not be allowed to talk to anyone or see anyone else.

The video playing skippers got off scott free. No reprimand, no punishment, smelling like roses.

Oh, but no worries, there will be other students in the room with the exchange student, in other cubby holes. You know the type...students like the boy who sexually harrassed 4 teachers. The boy who was caught in possession of drugs. The boy who peed in a gator aide bottle while on the school bus. Yeah, you know the type.

And there will a supervising teacher in the room... to insure complete silence.

It is so unfair to treat a visitor to our country in this manner. He is a decent boy. In his country, students are not giving ISS for missing school. It is a matter of choice.

I am powerless to help.

I am angry.