In the end, usually once or twice a year, the police came to handcuff the child and haul his/her ass away...and this was a school where the maximum grade level was 6th.
And they slammed them to do it?
The thing I can't get out of my head is the camera view that shows her on the floor, after the chair tip, NOT RESISTING, and he grabs her and
lifts her so high you can see the empty space under her body and he throws her the distance of several chairs and hitting the front wall or desk.
Of course I can't go back and replay it due to bandwidth, I saw that one clip while I was at the library.
But I can't get out of my head that HE THREW HER.
There was no fucking justification for that at all. There never will be. In no universe is that acceptable, let alone productive. That was rage. It was wrong. No student should ever have to endure that.
Can't get that out of my head.
And as I watch people argue here, not thinking that was a big deal or even wrong... I'm dumbfounded.
This girl was determined to make her own rules, and refused to leave. Perhaps 'a slip' might have worked,
And a wrong was committed by the school in not trying it. Problem #1. And this doesn't go away. It remains in plain view during all the rest.
or perhaps she would ignore it's discipline and return the next day as she pleased.
It is wrong to _assume_ she would and use that as an excuse for why it wasn't done. Problem #2 in the school's reaction.
I am not saying that it was not worth trying. But I am saying that once the school decided she was not to be in their classroom (or on their property), an officer of the law has the right and duty to remove a person from part or the whole of the property.
This seems to say,
Once they make a bad decision, it is justified to use force to carry out the bad decision.
No. It isn't.
Once I make a decision to drive drunk, I DO NOT get to crash police barriers in order to carry on with my bad decision. And if I do crash police barriers, I am TOTALLY WRONG for doing it.
It isn't a difficult concept.
Indeed it's not.
One of the most powerful teaching tools available to bring to bear on student discipline is the demonstration that when you have done something wrong, you can admit it.
They know you've done somethign wrong. Don't fool yourself that they didn't notice.
So when they see you able to listen, and change course, they are impressed, not derisive.
People ask police to enforce the law of property and trespass all the time. It does not matter if a girl, boy, woman, or man is asked by a legal authority to leave someone's house, a mall, a store in a mall, a stadium, or a government building the next step is physical force - it is inherent to making people follow lawful rules.
Yes, it does matter _how_ you do it.
Also this is an unrelated tangent because you are now presenting a case where it is proper to remove the person. Which is not what we have here.
Why is a shock that a basic institution, conceived and ran to use its legal social monopoly on the use of force, actually does so?
There is no difference between using force on her, than it is for tossing any bar drunk, home squatter, or rowdy fan. She is not special because she is 15.
Ummm, yes, she is. She's a minor under the care and guardianship of the school.
Um, wow?