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Originally Posted by Stompy
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. |
You are right... I do have a problem. I consider it disrespect. And I hope that I would have taught my children better than this by the time they are 17. And this was not just a kid that "acted up" in school. The kid had disipline problems in the past. At least that is what I got from the article.(how do we know he has not beat the crap out of people in the past?)
We can not really tell the tone of the kids voice, or the manner in which it was said. Was he in the teachers face with fist clenched? Don't know... Don't care. We can argue the fact until we are blue in the face. It does not change what you beleive. And it will not change what I believe, or how I was raised.
I was always taught there were limitations. You could not cuss in my school. This was something that was never heard. Hell, I think I even got suspended for writing a bunch of profanity on paper. Cussing... I can look past this. After all it is just a four letter word. But it was not my classroom. It was not my school. What are the "rules" of this class and school? Do they have a strict profanity policy? Don't know? They make the rules. They have the power. This kid broke the rules.
Do you think that the teacher just said, " hell with it.. I don't like the way little timmy spoke to me today... hmmm what can I do... hey! Let's send him to jail! Yeah that will teach him!"
Yeah right...sure that's the way it went down. Use some common sense. Somebody felt threatened. (Possibly the teacher, who is in a position of AUTHORITY)
Maybe both teacher and student should be reviewed after actions like this?
But really.. were is the line drawn. Where are the boundries? Are kids allowed to just act like a-holes. Then they are no more intelligent than the adult that acts like an ass. But as kids or adults... what gives them the right to act this way. Just because they are human? I have a hard time really under standing how the thought process work for some people?
He was given a citation. Suspended. And that is probably all that will happen.
Remember..possible jail time...