Can any of you older freepers imagine what the reaction would have been if you had acted this way in school when you were eight?
I wouldn't have turned 9.
Once by the teacher, once by the principle, once by my mother (who was a teacher at the same school), and once by my father when I got home.
That would have been in addition to all the other punishments I would have received.
I'm not that old, but I did act that way - and worse - at about the same age. Along with fairly regular tantrums, I demolished an entire classroom once as revenge for being punished for something I didn't do, and leapt out a classroom window during the middle of a class to get away from an abusive teacher. Never got arrested for it, though.
Well, back then this kid would most likely have been disciplined at home, starting at infancy...and if he wasn't behaving in school, they would have cured the problem way before he turned eight.
But, nowadays, parents don't want their children to dislike them, so they let them do whatever the hell they want to do. Discplining them might make their kids think they are mean.
And, nowadays, if the demon-child misbehaves, it's always the fault of the school, according to the Idiot Parents.
I don't blame the school for calling the cops...they really had no other options.
A good ear popping whack side of the head would have stopped the little tyrant.
I would have gotten paddled by the teacher until I couldn't sit down, and again at home by my father.
I would have been spanked by my teacher, my principle, and by my mother when I got home. I would have lost my allowance and television privileges. I can remember as a senior in high school being told, “You may be a foot taller than me, but you have to sleep sometime.” I joined the Navy out of high school and went to Viet Nam to have a less disciplined life.
Remember what the 'Penguin' did to Jake and Elwood in "The Blues Brothers"?;)
(only worse;)))
Ralph U Swisher had special accoutrements in his office. The same ones our parents had when we got home. It wasn't worth the double trouble.
I would have gotten the "board of education" at school, then again when I got home.
The principal would have gotten "Bertha" (a one-inch-thick oak paddle with holes in it to make it more aerodynamically correct) down from the wall and laid into me with it.