Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy
Georgia teen wrote about shooting her high school math teacher
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Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy
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Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy -
Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy -
Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy -
Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy -
Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy -
Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy -
Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy -
Girl Sues Over Teacher Murder Fantasy
OCTOBER 7--A teenage girl who penned a fictional story culminating with the shooting of her high school math teacher is suing a Georgia school board, claiming that her free speech rights were violated when she was suspended--and nearly expelled--from school. In a Superior Court complaint, Rachel Boim contends that the Fulton County School District's disciplinary measures were unwarranted and will have 'negative consequences' on her future college and employment prospects. Boim's problems began in October 2003, when a Roswell High School teacher seized a notebook that the girl tried to pass to a friend during an art class. When the instructor later reviewed the notebook, he discovered the violent two-page story, which is reproduced below. Boim, then a freshman, wrote of the math teacher, 'I lothe him with every bone in my body...I stand up and pull the gun from my pocket. BANG the force blows him back and every one in the class sits there in shock.' The story ends with a school bell ringing and Boim, stirring from a dream, picking up schoolbooks and heading to her next class. Boim, suspended for ten days, was later expelled after a disciplinary hearing (though the expulsion was eventually rescinded on appeal). Her complaint, which does not specify monetary damages, notes that Boim never exhibited the story to other students or staff and that it did not 'advocate violence against any specific person or group of people.' (8 pages)
