"Take it to court?" LMAO!!!! Seriously? You are so smart.

...school camera's? ...to court?

Schools have cameras...? What, do you go to a high security school or something?

most schools have cameras in the hallways, cafeteria, and gym.

Not most, and not in the classroom.

#37 - not in the world most of us live in.

mine has cameras... it's the poor schools that don't.

most schools do have cameras. you have never noticed them if you believe yours doesn't.

@ #57 I didn't say in the classroom...?

a cameras not gonna catch the writing on the desk!

it doesn't have to if the teacher AND student say what was written

Why so racist to presume the teacher is white?

*joke... calm yourself!

Shush, I'm trying to spark some debate here, calm is not required!

because when people who aren't right are racist everyone says good for them! but when white people do it it's horrible

You say that as if the OP is stupid enough to just take the situation lying down! Of course he said "but I didn't do it, I was erasing it" - Unfortunately he was caught in a compromising position and the burden of proof is against him.

No, the burden of proof is on the person trying to prove something, not disprove something. The teacher has to prove that he DID write it. The student shouldn't have to prove that he DIDN'T write it, which is impossible since you can't prove a negative. Unless the teacher saw him write it, she has no right to suspend him.

That's not how it works in the school systems - The teacher caught him in a compromising position. fiddling with the desk [from far off and depending on how rigorously he was erasing the desk it may not have been obvious that he was using the eraser] - The teacher didn't first see him with his pencil on the floor, that's just when he noticed the teacher in front of him. . . This isn't the justice system and is simply a detention - Ya it sucks but had the student been so heavily concerned with the flavor of writing on the desk he should have brought it to the instructors attention. I'm not saying he deserved it but, really, there isn't much he can do other than continuously stick by his story.

If he was trying to hard to erase it, where are all the eraser leavings? There would be obvious evidence if he had actually been erasing. Of course, the teacher could just as easily say he chickened out after drawing it. If he really wanted to stay out of trouble, he would have told the teacher as soon as he saw the "racist statements and symbols." The fact that he obviously didn't looks kind of suspicious. Regardless, schools aren't a court of law and circumstantial evidence is all that is needed to write-up, suspend, or even expel a student.

Error correction: If he was trying *so* hard to erase it... Commenting from a phone is difficult sometimes. :-)