If we must continue to have public schools, then the option of reform schools needs to be revived. It’s dangerous to the teachers and other kids to keep kids like that in regular schools. This slap on the wrist for the perpetrator while blaming the victim mentality has to be forced out, never to return.
As someone else remarked, back in my day, I’m pretty confident there would have been a few other students to step forward and stop that student from attacking the teacher.
Peach
> If we must continue to have public schools, then the option of reform schools needs to be revived. <
Very true. In fact, it’s essential.
And it was tried in my neck of the woods about ten years ago. An alternative day school was set up. They didn’t call it a reform school, but that’s what it was. Chronically disruptive students were sent there. Those students got individualized attention. And more importantly, they were kept away from students who wanted to learn.
Then someone noticed that there were more black kids in that school than were in the general population. Poof! No more reform school.