School’s Best-Behaved Student Ended up in Court over an Incident with a Classmate

It happened on a Wednesday afternoon.

Another teacher had stopped me in the cafeteria to return some tests. I was perhaps forty seconds late.

When I reached my classroom, chairs were scraping against the floor. Several students stood in a loose circle.

Tyler was sitting beside an overturned chair. His phone lay near Ben’s shoes.

“Ben! Step away from him!”