‘ AITAH for being unhappy about my daughter being punished for not “standing up” for her teacher?’

Yesterday my 8th grade daughter’s English class was doing a group activity,

and my daughter was placed in a group with 3 other people (two guys and another girl).

They were working at a table outside of the classroom.

Her teacher suddenly called one of the boys (who my daughter barely knows) who was in her group into her office to meet privately, and when he came back he was really angry.

The class just handed in a major essay the other day, and the teacher believes that he plagiarized it and told him she’d be giving him a zero and having a conference with his parents.

To my knowledge she didn’t have any super specific proof (like it setting off an AI detector), her reasoning was that his writing on this essay seemed dramatically different from that of his previous essays. The boy insisted that this was not the case and that he wrote it all by himself.

He was really angry and went on a big rant about the teacher and the situation when he returned to the group. He said some pretty n**ty stuff about her, calling her a “fat ass b*tch”, “douchebag”, “r*tard”, and “f***ing l**r”. Unbeknownst to him, the teacher was watching and listening in on this conversation the whole time.

The other girl in the group expressed some agreement with the boy as he ranted, while my daughter and the other boy remained quiet and just sat and listened (this was confirmed by the teacher herself).

After a few minutes of listening to him rant and complain the teacher came out and told him he had to go to the principal’s office. Near the end of class, the teacher gave the other three people in the group (including my daughter) forms for after school Friday detention.

Even though my daughter said absolutely nothing agreeing with the boy, her teacher says she should have “said something” instead of just sitting and listening to him call her names. When I spoke to her principal about it, he also sided with the teacher.