School suspension - reasonable or not?

So they have insight and remorse?
I'm assuming you haven't shared your unpleasant accusations about the teacher fancying time off and lying about the extent of the injury?

They should have a week suspension and you need to change your attitude.

I think it should have been a longer suspension. It could have had very very serious consequences. I know it was just teens being a bit stupid and not necessarily malicious but they need to learn that actions have consequences. My friends son was suspended two years ago for something similarish and she went apeshit with him and totally agreed with the school that he needed to be punished.

Totally justified in my opinion

Absolutely this.

You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what their intent was (or, rather, what they now claim it was). Somone was hurt and it was reasonable to think that this was possible. And, they don't appear to have either insight or remorse given the whingeing.

To the point they apparently needed to go to hospital, I don't doubt they did go to hospital but my suspicious brain wonders if they wanted a few hours out of work etc (maybe unfair of me!). No serious injury, some bruising to knee but apparently needs a few days off to 'recover'.

Why do people hate teachers so much? So nasty to put recover in quotation marks. Lucky it wasn't a pregnant teacher.

I haven’t missed the point. I never said they intended for someone to get hurt. Or don’t you think injuries from preventable accidents count somehow?

Punishment will make them think twice before they do such stupid shit again.

As to they didn’t think - well, we all know what thought did.

Imagine having that outlook, how unpleasant. Assuming nefarious intent on the part of the teacher. Nasty.

Causing an injury to another pupil or staff member is an immediate suspension at my child's Secondary School.

I think it is a reasonable punishment here.

They knowing left the ramp in a dangerous state and several people were injured as a direct result of what they did.

They had options, they could have reported the spill, they could definitely have not added more gel, they could and should have cleaned it up.

As it was they left it. It didn't dry. They only guessed it might. People got hurt.

I'm sure if your son and his friends were injured by someone else being pretty stupid you'd expect consequences.

Luckily no one ended up very seriously hurt. Someone falling while carrying a hot drink is very dangerous.

I think that is fair enough, as they added more that is intentional. Ramps are presumably there to support disabled DC, who could have been seriously injured if they slipped.

I assume you're the parent of one of these little horrors. If so, you're one of THOSE parents. The boys are lucky to have such a lenient punishment. They deserve at least a week's suspension. It's disgusting that you question the effect the sheer stupidity had on the teacher who fell and hurt themselves. Maybe these boys will learn that their actions have consequences.

It was a monumentally stupid and mean thing to do.
He was completely aware others could have been injured, and considered that ok.
1.5 days is actually a very measured response, he got of lightly.

I'm not missing the point at all. The point is your kid deliberately put something on a ramp to make people slip and slide. Any kid with half a brain will know that there is a chance if someone will slip and slide they can also fall over. But I really dont know why you posted anyway because you clearly disagree with anyone who thinks the suspension is warranted. It WAS a stupid thing to do, and whether they realised it or not, someone could have been badly hurt and incurred life changing injuries. That's the harsh reality of it so I'm really not sure what point you think I am missing.

Because it was an extremely serious incident and resulted in someone being injured. The boys are old enough to understand that something like hair gel, which they presumably use on a regular basis to be carrying it around on school premises, won’t dry quickly. Having caused the spillage, and then supposedly tried to wipe it away with their feet, they didn’t do why a responsible person woukd do and get paper towels to wipe it away. Instead they chose to not only ‘find it hilarious’ to see other people slipping on the ramp but to add more gel to the spillage. They then left the ramp knowing that it was extremely dangerous, and didn’t bother to report it. If they had done so, a member of staff wouldn’t have been injured and taken to hospital. I can’t believe thst you seriously think suspension isn’t warranted.

You’re being really unreasonable OK it was done accidentally in the first instance but then because they see it’s causing others to slip they decided because they think it’s funny they make it worse and now a member of staff has been hurt.
I bet the teacher who was hurt thinks it’s highly unreasonable that the punishment they received was so lenient
You need to get a grip I’m surprised you even bothered to post and ask

You are in the wrong op, jesus. What if the teacher landed and broke their neck?!

They've just learnt a great big lesson in 'actions have consequences'. Not realising it wouldn't eventually dry when they knew people were already sliding around on it is just pure stupidity - which i realise teenage boys are often prone to. If i spill water on the floor, it will eventually dry, but in the meantime someone else could slip in it. So the sensible thing to do is wipe/get it wiped up immediately.

The suspension will focus their minds when engaging in any future 'hi jinx' and is entirely justified as someone got injured.

If he did this at home and you slipped and had to go to hospital you'd be fine with it then? It's just a joke?

The lack of respect some parents have for staff in schools is unbelievable sometimes.

You do realize that people live in time zones other than yours, don’t you? Just because it was Friday morning for you, doesn’t mean it was for everyone.

Your attitude is appalling. You show no empathy towards the teacher. A child whose parents have such irresponsible attitude will unlikely develop empathy or compassion towards others.

I'm with the school on this one. It would have been sensible to get it cleaned up rather than add more hair gel and make it worse. Suspension justified

This sounds fair enough to me. They purposefully made it slippy and someone got hurt. If it was an accidental spillage you might have a point.

It should have been 5 days because someone was injured and they’re lucky that person wasn’t badly hurt.

a day and a half is nothing.

I hope they’re written a letter of apology to the teacher concerned and I hope you’ve punished them at home too and not let them lollybob around on screens and/or gaming whilst suspended.