Dress Code Violation - Penalty: Bodily Harm
17-year old student Sabrina Herndon has been charged with a felony over what appears to be a dress code violation with a strap. She was wearing a jacket and strapless top and was changing in the girls' locker room at Palm Beach Gardens High School.
A teacher noticed that the strapless top is a dress code violation though Sabrina countered that with the jacket, it was within the rules.
Then a male assistant principal allegedly put Sabrina in a chokehold twice.
Apparently, the school district says the student is a juvenile and her behaviour warranted physical force and felony battery charges.
So what's next? Ripped jeans is 10 lashes? Wearing a sexy t-shirt requires an arm to be cut off? Oh, maybe a guy wearing a studded earring will be shot and killed?
Update-1
Palm Beach Post reports that the school has denied that the student was choked.
Assistant principal Mike Chamberlin said gym teacher Cheryl Green called him to the girls' locker room after 17-year-old senior Sabrina Herndon refused to comply with school dress code policies.
The actions afterwards are in dispute between the student and the asst prinicpal and gym teacher.
So right now, she's recommended for explusion and she would have go to an alternative school for students with discipline problems. Plus, the district has referred charges of assaulting a school board employee, a felony offense, to the state attorney's office.
She's in her final semester of high school.
Just let her finish her last year and she's gone. Plus, the dress code really needs a dose of common sense added to it.
Comments
Posted by: Gryndyl
Posted on: January 14, 2007 10:40 AM
Did you even read the article? The school claims that the girl exhibited behavior that would warrant felony battery charges, but can not comment any further because she is a juvenile.
Did you seriously think a male faculty member went charging in to the girl's locker room and put a student in a choke hold simply for a dress code violation?
Posted by: Alasandra
Posted on: January 14, 2007 10:18 PM
I find it suspicious that they are unwilling to say what she did that warranted the assistant principals behavior. The we can't comment because she is a juvenile is BS.
And am I REALLY suppose to believe there were no female teachers/assistants that could have handled the situation. There is no excuse for a man to enter a girls dressing room PERIOD. That alone qualifies as sexual harassment by the male assistant principal in my book. The choke hold was over the top. From the article it appears ALL she had was a strapless top he objected to NOT A GUN, NOT A KNIFE, A STRAPLESS TOP!
Posted by: James (Author)
Posted on: January 14, 2007 10:41 PM
Gryndyl
Yes, I have read the article. I wish there was more information. Did the student have a prior record of bad behaviour at the school?
Yet, a chokehold for a dress code violation? Did she start attacking everyone around her? Did she slap the asst principal?
Honestly, does the punishment fit the crime?
Posted by: lillulu
Posted on: August 17, 2007 01:09 AM
I know the student very well and can tell you that she did not warrant any physical behavior to provoke the asst. principal. In fact, she probably tried to get out of his chike hold. Wouldn't you? Surprised that she was able to release his hold, he tried again. At that time she started screaming let me go and others started coming in the locker room. When the asst. principal realized that people saw him he let her go and said that he was pressing charges for harassment.