One month online suspension for telling a classmate to shut up on Zoom... Should I take legal action?

Bro you have a 120 bench press. Go kick his @$$!

Dude thinks he's all that since he can hide behind his keyboard. This would not fly if we were in real school...

Can you just mute someone else in a Zoom meeting? No need to tell them to shut up when you can just shut them up.

Of course you are a high schooler. Makes sense given many of your posts.

I wonder if your school Zoom session was recorded. You know, actual video evidence of the entire issue. It may be a zero tolerance policy and if it's recorded, probably dead to rights.

Sesamoiditis wrote:

Can you just mute someone else in a Zoom meeting? No need to tell them to shut up when you can just shut them up.

Only the teacher can mute other students. So we all had to endure this idiot's BS.

Some_Local wrote:

probably dead to rights.

What does dead to rights mean?

Sham 69 wrote:

Annoying dude in my class kept flirting with our PE teacher on Zoom saying he has a nice smile, good taste in fashion, and more BS. I just told him what everyone was thinking. I told him, "Shut up and leave, no one is laughing."

I guess he got mad and emailed the principal, because this morning me and my parents had to have a Zoom parent-conference where our principal said that I am suspended for a month due to bullying. Wtf???

The school revoked the login to the website we use to turn in assignments. They won't reinstate my login for another month. I already received my first few zeros, what can I do?

Everything you posted is a lie. You are a terrible troll. Please leave. Thank you.

From google (anyway)

INFORMAL

in the act of doing something wrong; red-handed.

"he had me dead to rights, so I meekly suffered the rebuke"

If you are in public school, you have due process rights. You would need to contact an attorney in your jurisdiction to find out what the procedures are to request a hearing. There may be dispositive deadlines.

If you are in private school, you have no due process rights, but may be entitled to some procedure in your student handbook or school discipline policy.

You may also want to try and grow up a bit and understand that remote learning is hard for everyone and student behavior problems are even more of a challenge in online classes. Teachers and administrators want to make it work so everyone doesn't have to return to school before it is safe. HS kids transmit COVID 19 just as efficiently as adults. Your teachers and administrators do not want to die or get deathly ill just because you cannot keep quiet because another student is being a pain.

Stephen Postfontaine wrote:

Everything you posted is a lie. You are a terrible troll. Please leave. Thank you.

I could report you for bullying for saying, "youre a terrible troll", and, "please leave", but I won't because I have class (pun). But seriously, could you help me out here? My grade is on the line and I'm trying to get back up to a 3.0.

In this instance, the person who told on me is a bully. He probably exaggerated the whole thing to get me a sentence I don't deserve.

Thanks Roy. I go to public school.

Ask them to justify labelling that as bullying. It could be bullying in a certain context, but it could also just be a rude way of asking someone to be quiet which is not bullying at all. If they can't tell you how they differentiated between the two I really can't see how they can suspend you for something they aren't sure that you did. Honestly, even a day long suspension for telling someone to shutup would be pretty pathetic though. You're not in the right here by any means but the punishment should fit the crime.

Yes

1/10

What do the ratings mean? Last time I got a 7/10..

You don’t know what everyone else was thinking. You let your immaturity get the better of you and now must pay the price. There seems to be more to this, like jealousy, that is driving your behavior. Not sure if you have something for teacher, or other student was getting attention you wanted, or maybe some deep rooted problem you have. Have you apologized to other kid and the rest of the class? Might want to try to make things right before you are forced to by the school. Step up and show some maturity.

Maybe I should have thought twice about what I said and just took the BS.

The student we are talking about wasn't getting any positive attention. Just people trying to ignore him. He was trying to be funny by flirting with the teacher, but no one was laughing. He's like this in person too. He tries too hard to be funny because he's so desperate for adoration. Everyone ignores him or tells him to get lost.

I have nothing for the teacher. I'm going steady with a girl right now. But there is no way I am apologizing to this dude. I don't want him to continue his attention seeking behavior.

So instead of being the bigger man(boy), you are going to double down and let him impact your future. Have to chose your battles in life, you lost this one, lick your wounds and move on instead of making it worse for yourself. You can use the apology to articulate the reason for your behavior and provide him an opportunity for growth as well.

So a dude was flirting with a male teacher? Sounds like you got strung up in some kind of extra punishment for saying a mean thing to a protected class.

A month seems way excessive for "shut up." Most I've seen is 10 days for literally fist fighting.