It was a typical school scrap, they get mad at each other for something and they get in each other's faces then punches are thrown. But this time it went a little different, It happened at Keswick High School during a speedball game. The racially charged taunts, and the punch thrown by the white school boy was literally heard around the world. The Chief wants prosecutor to take away the charges against the Korean youth,15, who has a black belt in tae kwon do. It happened two weeks ago when tempers got out of hand during a speedball game in which the Korean youth tripped a second teen. After, the tripped youth abruptly took the ball out of the first youth's hands. "Words were exchanged, shoving ensued and the tripped youth threw the first punch – along with a string of nasty invective that included "f---ing Chinese." The Korean youth broke the other teen's nose with his weaker left hand. The Korean youth only moved here with his family 5 years ago from Korea. The two boys had apologized to each other after, and they were both top students and they had never gotten in trouble before. Their families even apologized to each other. They are now deciding whether or not they should be expelled or not because the school is not allowed to not suspend them and is mandatory for them to take action because of the board of education.
This was just another incident. This probably happens every day, but i'm not too sure why this one was the one heard around the world. I believe that these two should only get suspended, and expulsion is over the top. Racial and physical contact are bad, but not bad enough for expulsion. In our school, if you get into a fight three times, then that is when you get expelled. Both teenagers never got in trouble before, and are very good academically at Keswick High School. If they have no previous record then why should there be such a harsh punishment? I'd say max 3-5 day suspension.
This was just another incident. This probably happens every day, but i'm not too sure why this one was the one heard around the world. I believe that these two should only get suspended, and expulsion is over the top. Racial and physical contact are bad, but not bad enough for expulsion. In our school, if you get into a fight three times, then that is when you get expelled. Both teenagers never got in trouble before, and are very good academically at Keswick High School. If they have no previous record then why should there be such a harsh punishment? I'd say max 3-5 day suspension.
i think you have to look at the sitation and there is always two sides of the story, so maybe these two kids just didnt get expelled for fighting but maybe they had history, and there were ouviouly things said and done prior to the fight which started the whole thing. I think that these kids got expelled because one is against the code of conduct of the school to fight two the techers and principla have to send a message not only to the kids of the school but to everyone in the community that racial taunt are not expectedable. These kind of things happen all the time and somthing has to be done and a message has to be sent to the kids.
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