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I don’t consider this a “bad kids” issue. Its a bad parents issue. When I was growing up, misbehavior in scholl had very real and unpleasant consequences at home. We have tied the hands of school faculty (those that still have the cajones to actually be a role model)and many now blame the misbehavior of children on the school. The blame is with the parents, I am reminded of the news article of the “man” who almost beat his daughters basketball coach to death for making her run laps for misbehaving during practice. Great message to teach your kid huh?

Unfortunately a fair percentage of even quite young ‘children’ age 8/9 have grasped that parental threats are hollow as a result of child empowerment via ‘child abuse’ laws. The result is that many parents are greeted by open angry defiance about any sort of discipline or even attempts to enforce rules in the home. Those parents who will actually tell the truth (admittedly a small minority) will provide chapter and verse of being told’ F you you can't make me do that. Nobody can.’ or ‘Go to H-ll old man. I'll come and go as I please.’ or my favorite that my foul tempered step daughter was fond of ‘Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” Ironically schools now have a much bigger arsenal of legal ‘pains and punishments’ to deal with discipline and behavior problems than they did thirty years ago while parents authority has been systematically undermined by both the culture and the rule making therapeutic culture. Once more the state has been made more powerful and the citizen's informal authority greatly diminished. This is in many ways a parable for our times about the general drift of a society that places its faith in the formal rule driven ‘expert’ entities and views the organic institutions of society such as the family with distrust.

But the schools can't make parents parent. All that's within their power is to discipline the students they are charged with. Oh wait, the parents of said feral animals won't tolerate their precious darlings being accused of anything. So essentially depending on an independant police force to maintain order is inevitable. And thus the arrests which IMHO is a good thing. Again, the quicker said beasts are ID'd and locked up to be kept away from society, the better.