In #checkin the other day we were discussing the letdown we sometimes feel after accomplishing something. Graduation was kind of like that. You spend a bunch of money to rent a gown, buy a tassel, and get handed an empty folder.

Then some students get a schmuck like this who makes it all worse. If grabbing somebody who has expressly made it clear that they want no part of you is not assault and battery, I don't know what is. And it's not like there weren't hundreds of witnesses.

Howard County is an elitist shithole.

Judge throws out ‘bullying’ lawsuit against Howard County schools, former superintendent

Dorsey, who was 17 at the time of the incident, said she declined to shake the Martirano’s hand in an act of solidarity with her father, a longtime administrator who was facing disciplinary action. Martirano allegedly forced her to shake his hand anyway, behaving in a “bullying fashion” on one of the biggest days of the teen’s life, the lawsuit claimed.

Attorneys for the Board of Education and Martirano each filed motions to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that Dorsey wasn’t physically harmed in the incident and the facts of the case didn’t meet the legal standards for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. They contended it was common practice for the superintendent to shake each student’s hand and Dorsey did not tell any school staff in advance that she wanted to deviate from the tradition.

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/bullying-lawsuit-dismissed-howard-county-public-schools-michael-martirano-7ES7SUOVURDIBMS2MK6NFKY2NQ/

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