Well, they got what they wanted.
“I remember standing over him with this metal weight and I remember hitting him twice…I thought I had killed him.”
Harvey attacked the boy with a 3kg weight during a lesson at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield.
Jurors heard during the four-day trial that pupils at the school were trying to irritate Harvey so his reaction could be caught on a camcorder secretly operated by a girl pupil.
The children intended to pass the footage around the school to humiliate their teacher, the court heard.
Perhaps this story should be lectured to every school pupil, as an example of potential consequences of bullying someone.
Better yet, perhaps society should give teachers the confidence they can discipline students without parents turning up the next day with a lawyer. Then, students would never get the idea that they might get away with bullying their teachers.
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