Youth Given Probation for Assaulting Teacher
A 16-year-old student at John Burroughs High School in Burbank who pleaded no contest to assaulting a teacher was sentenced Wednesday to probation and three consecutive weekends of community service by a Pasadena Superior Court judge.
Deputy Dist. Atty. John Schlueter said that the amount of time that the student remained on probation would be subject to periodic reviews by the youth’s probation officer.
“I don’t think it was an unfair sentence,” Schlueter said, noting that the teacher who had been assaulted was not injured. “It was right under the circumstances.”
The youth pleaded no contest in December to assaulting teacher George Rosales when the instructor tried to break up a hallway fight between two other boys. The incident sparked a one-day wildcat strike by Burroughs teachers to protest the decision not to expel the student.
Since the incident, the Board of Education has voted to spend more than $100,000 for emergency communications systems at the city’s two high schools.
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