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12 November 2011
More Dutch madness - school deputy principal locked up for 'assaulting' student
I often get the feeling while observing Dutch society (via TV satellite) that I am watching people from another planet.
On Wednesday, 9 November, a contingent of police arrived at a high school in Nieuwegein, a town close by the city of Utrecht, arrested the deputy principal and unceremoniously took him to the police station where he was interrogated and then locked up for several hours. What shocking misdemeanour was the deputy principal guilty of to be treated as your base grade criminal? He grabbed a 'troublesome' student and ejected him from a classroom. Here's how it all unfolded.
Two thirteen-year-old students became embroiled in a brawl in the middle of a lesson. The teacher ordered the students from the classroom. One student left but the other stayed. The second student was asked 'certainly ten times' to leave the classroom. The thirteen-year-old refused. The deputy principal was called, but to no avail. The deputy principal then grabbed hold of the student and led him from the classroom. The student scurried home to his stepfather who became 'really angry', went to the police and reported an assault. Without more ado the police set off to get the deputy principal.
To compound the madness, a police spokesman said they had no alternative but to arrest the deputy principal and lock him up because the 'really angry stepfather' could have 'gone inside [the school] to attack him'. People would then have asked why the police had not 'taken the deputy principal away'. One wonders why it did not occur to the police spokesman that it was odd to arrest the possible victim and not the likely aggressor.
The poor deputy principal, you would have to think. Twice a victim, and arrested into the bargain.
If this scenario is not bad enough, the madness only increases when we read that the school was a special school for troublesome (moeilijk opvoedbare) children and that the boy's classmates said he was a 'pain in the arse'. Elsevier Online reported:
'Classmates describe the boy as a "pain in the arse" who had already caused trouble several times. On twitter classmates said they found the report to the police "ridiculous". The student had been "terrorising" the class for a long time.'
The incident has caused uproar in Holland. But the uproar and indignation will achieve precisely nothing as long as the nation remains in thrall to the leftist mentality that has presided over the nation's moral and social decay and as long as the majority does not have the courage to break free from the stifling and paralysing conformism imposed by the dominant political class.
Sources:
http://nos.nl/artikel/312482-schoolleider-in-cel-na-aangifte-leerling.html
http://nos.nl/artikel/312623-politie-zijn-vader-was-echt-boos.html
comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com