There was a fight the other day at Santa Monica high school between a teacher and a student. Apparently the teacher (who was also the school's wrestling coach) saw a student pull out a bag of marijuana and offer to share it with someone. The teacher tried to confiscate the pot. The student apparently stabbed the teacher with a pencil. The teacher drove him up against the wall and tackled him with a leg hold.
When the school principal, Sandra Lyon, saw video of the fight on YouTube, she called the coach's actions "utterly alarming." She suspended him on the spot and pledged support for the student's family.
Support for his family???
What on earth do they need support for? Does she think the family was traumatized by seeing their son taken down in a wrestling hold and held by his legs? If he's openly dealing pot like that they probably had similar confrontations in their own living room.
Well, I can imagine what really happened here. The coach is white. The student is black. And the principal did not want the incident "Treyvonized," which is to say, she didn't want the parents of the student calling an attorney, holding a press conference, and bringing in Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson to denounce the school before sympathetic reporters on national TV.
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