^Does your suggestion and bear analogy work for every child that has been a problematic student? Just ship them off and let someone else deal with them?
I thought the situation was handled with perfection. Seems to me that the cops simply acted on their previous threat, which resulted in negative consequences for the girl. Negative reinforcement.. a psych 101 staple! Had the cops NOT done what they said they'd do.. I can only imagine the kind of license that would have given her to act a fool the next time.
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