[Alberta's Child]

The school district can't be held personally liable as long as education is considered mandatory for minors. We can't expect them to be able to cope with "students" who belong in a sweatshop instead of in a school unless we are willing to give them the power to throw the bastards out of school.

[jimkress]

The school district can't be held personally liable as long as education is considered mandatory for minors

So, if a student attacks a teacher, the school district does nothing, and then the student attacks another teacher, you actually believe the people at the school district (who have facilitated an environment where the student knows there are no consequences for attacking a teacher) are blameless and can't be held criminally accountable as accessories to a crime because education is mandatory?

Unbelievable. People with that kind of viewpoint are a big part of the problem in our country.

Until adults in school systems (Teachers, Management, Unions) are held personally accountable (including criminal accountability) for their actions (or lack thereof), our schools will continue to be a place where only barbarism is learned.