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I remember when the schools used to handle the discipline. About 6, 8 or 10 years ago the schools abandoned discipline and called the police to handle problems in the schools (at least in my city)

So now we have had police officers in schools for quite some time. One of our SRO's made over 90 arrests at one of our high schools last year.

Don't blame the police. The community apparently thought it was a good thing to bring cops into the schools. No one complained. Now the cops do what they are trained to do and we suddenly have a problem with it.

Personally I think that the cops should be out of the schools and the schools should be handling the discipline.

But then again, we are moving closer to the socialist democrat utopia which we seem to prefer in this country.

"I remember when the schools used to handle the discipline."

1965 grad, New Hanover High, Wilmington, NC... I remember the dean of MEN, Mr. Fred Capps. He ruled with the "Board of Education". It had holes drilled, and NOBODY ever complained about its use!
It usually was warranted, and the parents always supported him...

I also remember Mrs. Frances Formy-Duvall, my senior English Composition teacher. She was a battle-ax, that EXPECTED YOU TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE. She had taught my father, and when I came into her class, targeted me for being unruly. Apparently, she had memories of my Dad. (I never did anything wrong, I was just my dad's son!) I got A's in her course. I earned them!!!

Don't blame the police.

Screw that. The police are professionals. If some segment of the community asks them to go round up all the Jews in the city, does that excuse it. HELL NO. They, not their supporters, are supposed to understand the limits of the law. This means both individually, as a sworn officer, and collectively as a force.

In showing such complete lack of common sense and disregard for the highest law of the land they have, rightfully, opened themselves up to ridicule and lawsuit.

Were I the parent of a child treated in this way you can bet I would be suing everyone involved for large amounts of money, as well as working to organize a class action against the school, the police, the principle, the chief of police and the school board. My goal would be to bankrupt all them, which would definately send the message "you can't pull guns on kids at school, handcuff them, and smack them around because you think there are drug dealers at the school" or, perhaps more simply "this is not the USSR".

Now the cops do what they are trained to do and we suddenly have a problem with it.

If cops are being trained to randomly arrest and search individuals suspected of no crime our Republic is gone, we had better train our kids to fight tyranny - because it is here.