re: Is this assault or a kid protecting his right to learn?

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The crazy thing is there is not much a teacher can do about that.

Sit down. No. Sit down or I will call your Mom. Go ahead. Sit down or I will call the principal. He can't touch me. Sit down or you will be suspended. Hell yea!!

You can't paddle them. You can't expel them because that will drop the graduation rate and then the principal and superintendent will get fired by the board.

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You are so very right. I wrote about that in a thread about a week ago (based upon my years teaching in inner city New Orleans). There isn't much teachers can do nowadays when kids act like this. Even defending themselves by pushing an attacking student off of them can be considered "assault".

It looks to me like the stupid girl slipped actually. It happens so fast and isn't caught well on the camera but it looks like that when the black girl steps on the desk, she steps on a paper that the white girl was working on.

The white girl just tried to keep her from stepping in her or messing up her work. It was basically a reflex to react like that when someone is stepping all over your space and about to fall all over you. If white girl had stood up, black would have likely fallen anyway because the desk would have been unbalanced.

But black girl will likely try to sue the school because even though she was wrong for climbing all over furniture and being disruptive (and is damn well old enough to know better), her parent will claim it is the teacher's fault for not stopping her from doing that.