• Flying Squid
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    724 days ago

    Once upon a time, back in the dark ages when I was in school, kids like that were sent to the principal’s office, at which point they might be given detention, suspension, or even expulsion.

    • @[email protected]
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      224 days ago

      Hell when I was a kid having meltdowns it usually took me chucking a chair for the police to be called. Me spitting while only partially melting down was usually seen as a throw him at the principal problem.

    • @chakan2
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      124 days ago

      We can’t expel children any more. And I’m betting this was the last straw after several detentions.

      What would you like the teacher to do then?

      • Flying Squid
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        124 days ago

        Why can’t “we” expel children anymore? You can here in Indiana.

        • @chakan2
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          124 days ago

          I guess you can expell children in my state, but the paperwork and procedure makes it almost impossible. The teacher would have to go through the equivalent of a small trial…and that’s only if it’s a normal kid. If a parent says ADHD the kid can’t be expelled.

          It’s fucking weird to arrest kids, I get that. But as someone with a kid in school, I’ve seen how batshit crazy school has gotten.

          If I had spit on a teacher growing up, I’d immediately have been expelled and thrown in juvie. Welcome to alternative education.

          I believe the teachers. They’re under paid and dealing with the craziest fucked up post COVID generation in history.

          • Flying Squid
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            224 days ago

            If I had spit on a teacher growing up, I’d immediately have been expelled and thrown in juvie.

            Where on Earth did you grow up that spitting on a teacher would have ended with you being thrown in juvenile detention? Can you provide any evidence of this?

            • @chakan2
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              123 days ago

              Rural America.

              • Flying Squid
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                123 days ago

                Well that only narrows it down to something like 90% of the entire country.

                I don’t believe you. At all.