Kid who wore Broncos jersey to school - an update

[yasmina27]

A local radio talk host, to whom I rarely listen because he is a 99% right-wing kool-aid drinker, earlier this week said that something just didn't sound right about this story - that there had to be more to it/

I rarely agree with anything this blowhard says. The only reason I do tolerate him is that he does support teachers and teacher unions (although he bashes unions for everything else).

Anyway, today he was talking about the kid from Beaver who got a lounge chair from Elway because his teacher abused him for wearing a Broncos jersey last Friday. He interviewed several of the boy's classmates who were in the class at the time. They all said that he was laughing at the time, that this was a class on ethnic diversity, that this type of activity had occurred before (one girl had the same thing done to her for wearing a Titan's shirt), and that the kids AND their parents have to sign a waiver at the beginning of the school year that they understand that unusual teaching methods are used. Also that there is a waiting list to get into this class because it is an ELECTIVE and one of the most popular classes in the school. Fred also read e-mails from other students and former students cooberating these reports.

OK, now that teachers and Pittsburghers have been ripped new a$$holes by the nation, do you think the truth will also be made known??

[tigereye]

1. yeah I suspected that there was probably more to it

than the initial story. People running straight for the media should be a tip-off.

[Ravenseye]

2. I've heard that a couple places

I find it interesting that people were so quick to jump down this guys throat and call for the teacher's firing, but now when there is an indication that that wasn't the whole story...well people are silent about it.

Where are all the people who wanted to have the guy fired now?

When this came up I mentioned that I thought something smelled fishy about the situation because the reporter had only talked to the kid, and not any of his classmates. Now those kids are coming forward/being found, and the story is a whole lot a hooey, made up by a kid who probably wanted out of the class for his own reasons.

So in answer to your question, no I doubt the truth will be made known. It's like when that story got out that after Maddox had that bad game with three interceptions that people trashed his lawn and threatened his kids. Got into the national media, and poeple made fun of Steelers fans, or thought we were nuts. Then of course a day later it turns out that it was BS from his agent, and when asked about it Maddox's wife flat out said that it had never happened. Did that get covered? Nope.

People don't want the truth, people want to scream about dead girls in aruba. Metaphorically speaking.

[JVS]

3. Go Stillers!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

4. Ha! A "waaaa waaaa" story...with a $3000 gift chair ending.

Saw this kid on the local news sitting in his new Elway leather reclyner...he's "still deciding" whether or not he was so traumatized by this class to drop it.:eyes:

[Metta]

5. Thanks for the update. Everyone would have been better served

if the whole truth came out in the first place. "A half truth is a whole lie." The Talmud.

[fishwax]

6. so the real "truth" comes from a right-wing radio host?

um, okay ...

and as for the new truth

he was laughing at the time
well, that doesn't really prove anything. First, it's their memory of their perspective of events, hardly definitive evidence of "truth." Second, people often laugh as a defense mechanism (or a measure of surprise and discomfort) at things that, upon reflection, are quite serious. So the fact that he may or may not have been laughing at the time doesn't mean it wasn't traumatic or out of line.

that this type of activity had occurred before
so that it happenned before makes it okay? And was the previous situation as severe, or during a test-taking situation?

parents have to sign a waiver ... there is a waiting list to get into this class ...one of the most popular classes in the school
this doesn't excuse abusive behavior, if abusive behavior occurred.

According to the early reports of the incident, what the student wanted was either (a) to be able to retake the test or (b) to be able to drop the class. Neither of these seems unreasonable to me.