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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
Have you had to deal with kids who'd throw a punch at you?
Now, I'm a big believer in common sense but let me play devil's advocate for a moment and say that, when a rebellious child is attacking you, I don't think saying "knock it off now" is going to cut it. If you have the gall to physically attack an authority figure, you're lost and there's little else that can be done but to show you how unacceptable these actions are by throwing you in jail. These are the kids who will grow up to be adults who will violently resist arrest. Honestly, have you ever seen people run from or, even worse, attack their arresting officers? It's lunacy! Has it ever occured to any of these people to simply go quietly and find themselves a lawyer? Not if attacking their authority figures has worked for them in the past...
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Yes, I have had to deal with kids like that and not once did I have to defend myself physically. Some are labelled 'hopeless', sent off in expulsion, only to show back up in school because there's no one home to watch them.
In the worst isolated classes(these kids were confined to two classrooms a day), as bad as those kids were, not once were teachers or aides harmed; they were trained to defuse pending situations and a couple of aides, in addition to their training, were just plain good at handling the kids.
The ironic thing is that kids who have been arrested in our schools were more likely to be arrested for bringing knives or drugs. Granted, this isn't the Bronx or Detroit or even LA, but it's not Pleasantville either. Many of our students are from Section 8 housing and, in a bit more irony, perhaps, some of the worst behaved kids were the 'rich kids'. Bad behavior knows no class; it comes from every source, but judging by how the kids responded to discipline, it's the mental and emotional lack of attention all around, I really believe, that causes them, at any age, to lash out.