September 2, 2008 marked the start of another school year in the Zehr household. This year is Elizabeth's Senior year and should be full of wonderful things. But it has gotten off to a bumpy start. I don't know how many of you will remember, in January, she was attacked at school. She was jumped from behind, thrown to the ground and hit repeatedly about her face by a freshman boy in her band class after a basketball game. She had to face charges of harrassment even though she did not hit back. She had been in a texting war with this boy and this is what prompted him to attack her.
She went through several months of Diversion service to avoid the whole event going on record with the police. She had to do community service and write a letter of apology to this boy. None of which he had to do for attacking her, isn't our justice system lovely!! Well she has moved on and become a better person for it, she says she has learned a valuable lesson.
Anyway back to the bump in the road. She tried out for the flag squad and from past blogs you know she made the squad. She has been enjoying participating except for the continually harrassment from the boy who attacked her who by coincidence is on the same squad. I had asked a friend of ours on the police force to see what he could do to get him to stop and I spoke with Mr. Curro about the situation. Well to make this short, on Tuesday, Beth spoke with Mr. Curro about the problem. He feels that in the best interest of Beth's state of mind and safety for her, that she should no longer be on the flaq squad and move back into the band playing her flute.
I have to agree with him that this should take care of the problem, however, I agree with Beth too. She feels she is being made to compromise in all areas that concern this and this boy can get away with anything he wants. Part of the reason I believe is that he is the only boy on the squad and they don't want a problem with seeming to be sexually biased towards him. You can also read into it that this boy is Gay, he openly admits this, and this may also be part of the reasoning. I have nothing against Gay people, I have several Gay friends, but this kid plays it to the hilt. Prime example, he tried to claim that Beth was harrassing him in such a manner that the incident should be classed a hate crime. One problem with that for him was that she never hit him, she couldn't, he hit her so hard and threw her to the ground that she blacked out.
Hopefully the rest of the year will go better for her. I also hope that Ben will have a wonderful Sophomore year. James and David are both enrolled at Trinidad State Junior College and are working very hard already. They do have some classes that start at the same time but both are pursuing different degrees. James is still going for Nursing and David is pursuing Accounting and Business Management. I love it....I have so much time to myself these days!
Well enough for now, may God Bless You All!!
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