I would not have fired Imus, although I would have read the riot act to him and his creepy manager, and I would not have involved the police in the ham sandwich. It is was a kid innocently leaving a sandwich down somewhere, just ask them to be more careful in the future. However, it sounds like it was a provocative and offensive act..done as only a 14 year old can do it. Something was called for in terms of teaching him or her that we do not in this school go around deliberately offending people and furthermore, scaring them if they saw it as an act of intimidation, which they very well might have. Chances are pretty good that any people from certain countries that have had hard times recetnly are traumatized..at the very least they have been uprooted. Kids can be cruel to each other or they can be very helpful and it is up to the adults to stomp out any cruelty, intimidation etc. It is the law of the jungle and that is why we have society, to protect the weaker from the pecking order, and believe me, kids of that age will pick each other to death, literally, left unsupervised and untrained. The nonsense about kids having to be taught to hate may or may not be true for 3 year olds, but 13 year olds, whether they hate or not, can very instinctively be brutal to each other, sometimes as a preemptive strike so that they aren't picked on.

This again goes back, perhaps, I am not sure in this case (it could have been a sort of a joke that appealed to a teen) to bullying...it has to be stopped. Grownups have to be grownups. Now, you don't need to overreact and call the police when there is not danger..but you need to do something. mg