Principal Attacks Student

[Faline]

Apparently the lad had been taking naughty pictures with his phone.
Shouldn't of attacked him how he did though

[batlungs]

fuck if that was my boy back in school days i woulda givin that princy a nice flying knee and been gone with my friend they pulled shit like that shit on my buddy when he got roasted for blazing at school and he just ran after hittin the guy

[monstor mash]

Thanks Principal Douche-bag... I`M RICH BITCH!

[CollateralDamage]

that kid ran up and did nothing....he should of given that guy a stern kick to the dome

[rob666]

Originally Posted by Kelly

Apparently the lad had been taking naughty pictures with his phone.
Shouldn't of attacked him how he did though

Not really how it all went down... principals name is Ken Fells, look for yourselves....... He was cleared of any wrongdoing do.

[kellyhound]

Security video of a March confrontation between a principal and a student at a Nova Scotia high school was posted on YouTube.

The video appears to show Ken Fells, who at the time was principal of Graham Creighton Junior High, wrestling with 14-year-old Josh Boutilier.

Frank, a bi-weekly gossip magazine published in Halifax, posted the silent video after releasing still images of the scuffle earlier in the week.

Fells was removed as principal at the Cherry Brook school last week, but is still an employee of the Halifax Regional School Board.

'What people don't understand is the tape is bad enough. It's what happened in the office that is even worse.'—Mike Wagner

Josh, who now attends a new school, received a concussion, cuts and bruises during the altercation, according to his family.

Mike Wagner and Janet Boutilier had asked to see the video involving their son, but the school board declined to show it to them.

They first saw it on CBC.ca. After viewing the video, the couple said it confirmed Josh's account and repeated their call for Fells to be fired.

"It just horrifies me," Boutilier said, adding that her son told her he thought he was going to die that day.

"What people don't understand is the tape is bad enough. It's what happened in the office that's even worse," Wagner said.

The video shows Fells dragging Josh into an office, but ends there.

Wagner said the teen sustained the concussion in the office.

School fight
The incident started when Fells demanded Josh hand over his cellphone after the boy prepared to record a fight that was brewing in the school, the parents said.

The fight did not happen and the boy refused to hand over his phone, the parents said. He walked away and Fells followed, they said.

RCMP investigated the incident and no charges were laid.

The Halifax Regional School Board held a marathon meeting last week before deciding to remove Fells from the school, but keep him as an employee.

"I have no idea what they were thinking. I can't understand how they could defend this man," Janet Boutilier said.

"Nobody that you talk to wants their kids going to a school where he is, because he could lose his temper again," Wagner said.

Boutilier said they received hate mail over the incident and the family was glad the video is out.

"Hopefully, it will change the public's view," she said. "I'd like to think the school board is embarrassed of their decision.

"Everyone's too quick to judge us, saying we're bad parents and we should be ashamed of ourselves, we have a thug. He's not a thug, he's a good kid," she added.

Calls to Fells went unanswered and attempts to reach the school board were not successful.


i would have elbowed that principal in the face.

[Faline]

Originally Posted by rob666

Not really how it all went down... principals name is Ken Fells, look for yourselves....... He was cleared of any wrongdoing do.

Are you blind
And from what i just read it did it did go down like that and worse...he was wrongly cleared of all charges

[Black Knight]

Come on people. He should be cleared. How would you feel if he was taking sneaky photos of your daughter?

The principal did nothing more then restrain him and physically bring him to the office. He didn't punch his or beat on him or anything.

When I was in school my prinicpal choked me. But then again people were responsible for their actions back then. My parents had no problem with it as I deserved it. I took it like a man as I did deserve it. I didn't carry on, my parents didn't sue, etc.

This new age of being politically correct sucks as there is no longer a sense of personal responsibility. It's always someone else's fault and a lawyer waiting to sue over it.

[Viking64]

As far as I could see, the student assaulted the principal first. When you cross that line, you get what's coming to you. I think the principal could have been a lot more aggressive in defending himself and still not have been at fault. But hey, that's just me. I never assaulted my high school principal.

[Mortiso]

Its against the law to lay a hand on any student UNLESS you are defending another student or yourself. The princ. did not handle this properly. The student attempted to get away from him and he was man handled. By law they have no rights to law hands on him he was not physically hurting anyone. If he was to run away or whatnot the school had rights to call the parents to have him removed or call the authorities if the student ran away from school grounds. Once an underage student walks into a public school it is the schools responsibility for the well beint of that student. So by the child running away from the school or causing a major commotion he/she puts the school in in jepordy of a lawsuit aswell as endangering the wellbeing of the other students and staff, so they have rights to have the child arrested. If it is true that the boy came out with bruises and cuts then he was in fact assaulted in the office. That man should not have a job with the school system.