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.
If the school district is prohibited by law from throwing a bastard out of the school, then the people who work for the school district can hardly be held accountable.
If a student attacks a teacher, then the teacher has no business "reporting it to the school district" -- the teacher should pick up his or her cell phone, dial 911, and have the little f#cker arrested. The little bastard will be dealt with -- outside the classroom -- and after the police show up five or six times, the classroom will have no more troublemakers.
Incidentally, more and more urban school districts are putting cameras in the classrooms to monitor teachers in case they are accused of assaulting a student. I'll bet they never figured that these cameras would instead be used as evidence in criminal cases filed by the teachers against the students.