A Florida high school student was suspended last week for 10 days after
defending an openly gay student who was being bullied and assaulted by
another classmate - despite the fact that the alleged attacker has been
charged with battery, Fort Myers Naples, Fla.’s Fox affiliate WFTX-TV reports.
Mark Betterson, a student at East Lee County High School, has been
suspended for nearly two weeks after getting in the middle of a fight
Thursday in order to protect a bullied gay student. Betterson said he
needed to do something when James Griffin, 18, allegedly threw milk in
Jonathan Colon’s face, used anti-gay slurs and started into him.
"If I didn’t jump into it, it would have got serious," Betterson told
WFTX-TV. "It would have been worse than what he got." He added:
"Jonathan was just going to stand there and get beat up ... if I didn’t
jump into it."
"I was just trying to break up the whole thing because it’s not fair for
somebody to get beat up for something that he is. That’s not really
called for." Full story here via Edge!
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