2. The School's first action.
Michael communicated with me in the very afternoon of October 25th Tuesday, so I called the school and reported the case to Michael's homeroom teacher. Since we didn't know the 3rd grader main boy, I just said, “There was also Carol, that 4th grader girl that had once raised her hand against Michael. The main boy seemed to be her friend. Please talk to Carol to identify the 3rd year old boy and find out if she joined in this, too”.
It was already the after school hour, so the homeroom teacher, said she would talk to them the next day. In the meantime, I contacted other three companions if they had seen anything that morning. Three boys were waiting in the distance. But 2 of the boys recognised the 3rd grader boy, and they actually could identify the 3rd grader boy. They told me his name, Kevin. So I wrote a message to Michael's homeroom teacher with notifying thename of the boy to be Kevin. And I also find out that there were actually, Lorence himself and his new partner to go to school, Ron, who lives in the condominium across the street. Kevin, Carol and Ron, they all live in the same condo.
The next day afternoon, the homeroom teacher called me on the phone.
Kevin had admitted that he talked to Michael harshly, and also that he got even physical. He tried to protect Lorence having heard that Lorence was cast out from the old companions. And Kevin had not met Lorence before and yet he committed such a violence. But later he would change this testimony. I will mention that later.
The point is that the homeroom teacher tried to close up the case as it is. They didn't even teach the boys that they had committed crimes by performing violence and also by stopping a person against his will.
What about the others? There were more than 3-4 children that stopped Michael that morning, I know there was that 4th grader, Carol that had raised her hand against Michael in the past. This is her second time. Is she actually involved with this? There were also Lorence and Ron. What role did they play? Did they actually asked the older graders to take revenge for Lorence? Ron was one of the perpetrators of the harassments that I mentioned in my previous post. I have some reasons to believe Ron doesn't like Michael so much. Isn't he the one that guided Kevin to Michael? Though Kevin and Lorence didn't know each other, Kevin and Ron live in the same condo. They know each other.
Why was Michael picked? There were two boys that Kevin actually was acquainted and those two boys were walking ahead of Michael. Why did they pick Michael? Nothing was clear that time. I could not picture the scene.
Since homeroom teacher had told me that Kevin's homeroom teacher was about to speak to his mother, I told them to ask the mother, if there was any talkings between mothers as to accuse me for Lorence’s being cast out. In that case, it is the adults that should have been more careful to prevent children's misunderstandings.
The school called me for second time, telling me of Kevin's second testimony, which is as follows.
Kevin was just passing by, saw Lawrence go to school with Ron. He thought it was strange because, even though Kevin didn't know Lorence personally, he knew that Lorence was regularly went to school with other kids from the condominium across the street. Kevin immediately thought that Lorence was cast out. Then when he looked aside, Kevin saw the very boys that used to be Lorence's companions, just happened to pass beside him. So he decided to teach them a lesson.
…. This is how he testified for second time. The difference was, there was no communication between Lorence and Kevin, nor between Ron and Kevin. In the first one, he said "he heard that Lorence was cast out", in the second, he said "he just saw Lorence and jumped into a conclusion.". It was just a spontaneous accident.
I asked again to my son's homeroom teacher. “Then why could they spot Michael? I understand that Kate (Kevin's mom) could eventually assume that I set up others against Lorence and cast him out. Then from their point of view, I am responsible for that issue. If there was no communication between Kevin and Lorence, nor with Ron, how could Kevin know that Michael was my son?”.
Then the next line that was made by Michael's homeroom teacher was unbelievable. “I am not sure, but it is probably because of Carol, (4th grader girl that had bullied Michael before) knowing him already.”
I replied being shocked, “Probably? So you didn't check to be sure? Don't you think it's important to know how he or they picked Michael, to help them to realise the right passage to control their reason? It's important to know that also to find out who is REALLY responsible. I personally want to be sure that Lorence is not involved into the process of target selection. Didn't you say that it was Kevin's spontaneous decision? If Carol was the main decision maker of targeting Michael, she would have been the first to talk to Michael. She is older than Kevin. For my point of view, she just took advantage of this situation, like a hyena to show off her power. Did you talk to her?”
The homeroom teacher answered “No”
I asked “Who exactly were there?”
Homeroom teacher “We still don't know.”
I said, “Then what did you say to him?”
Homeroom teacher, “ We said to Kevin that he shouldn't have poked his nose into a matter he is not involved with. And he shouldn't commit any violence against anyone, especially younger children.”
I thought that was not even “enough” for what they did was a crime. Violence is a crime but also stopping someone on the way against its will, by putting a pressure is also a crime. So they commit 2 crimes. They should learn while the harm is forgivable like this.
