Man, you have to have some problems if you think you should give a kid who acts up in school JAIL TIME
Why would his parents hold him accountable? If I swore at 17, that had nothing to do with my parents. It's not like the parents sit at a magical control panel and control the every action of their kids. They are thinking human beings who are capable of acting on their own.
All older people are the same... "I was beaten with a paddle in school and THAT did the trick." Mkay, so we should put kids in jail now when they act up? I mean, you can't even really begin to justify giving someone jail time for something silly like this.
The article simply stated, "...who gave him a citation for using language meant to provoke violence" If someone was quoted as saying, "Yeah, he was advancing toward the teacher like he was going to hit her," then that's one thing. But that's all the article said. We all know damn well school adminitrators tend to stretch the truth (especially with those old enough who have kids in middle/high school).
It's silly when people form these types of lynch-mob of sorts. Oooh a teenager did something bad, throw the book at him! Remember you were there once.
And god forbid we actually question the actions of the teacher. Was she being an ass? Maybe she deserved to get swore at. She might be the teacher, but I've always lived by the rule "disrespect me, expect to get disrespected right back." If that meant talking back or swearing at a teacher if they were being an ass to me for not apparent reason, so be it.