"She's a child!"

[Hortensis]

53. The teacher was well aware of what he had set in motion -- because it was procedure

and had happened other times at this school and others in the district. He knew Officer Slam's reputation, as did everyone else in the school. He also knew that if it progressed that far the girl would likely be arrested and charged as a criminal.

This school district, like South Carolina as a whole, apparently has a long record of various undesirable practices, abuses of students, and failure of duties that are well above national averages, something that simply could not happen without the complicity of a majority of teachers.

I repeat -- the first time I saw that video I started wondering about the teacher. Horrified and shocked? Or complicit? It turned out to be definitely and inexcusably complicit by someone who should have made it his first effort to protect the student from "procedure."

And, Adigal, I really don't appreciate your characterizing the results of my research as lies. I understand that we may have very different standards for the behavior and duties of teachers, and the well-regarded sources I always go to can be wrong, but I did not "lie" and you are out of line.