Letters: What was the alternative at Spring Valley High School?

Let’s review what happened last year in a Spring Valley High School classroom: An apparently undisciplined, unruly and brazen student challenged the system in front of her peers. The student was seen with a cell phone, she was instructed by the teacher to put it away or relinquish it, and she refused. The teacher then requested assistance from a school administrator, the student refused to comply with instructions to leave the classroom, the school resource office was summoned, and the student refused to obey the instructions from the sheriff’s deputy to leave the classroom.

I believe the student fell from the grasp of the resource officer’s hand and was not deliberately thrown to the floor, as the news media tried to convince the public. The resource officer was fired because his actions were seen by many appeasers as extreme, but he was summoned to confront a student who refused to adhere to authority.

My question is this: Who should have been contacted by those school officials who were unable to persuade the student to comply with their instructions?

Please don’t suggest some sort of appeasement, for that will only cause other unruly and uncivil students to seek appeasement. We all know what problems appeasement have caused the law-abiding and civil culture of our country.

This story was originally published August 21, 2016 at 6:08 PM with the headline "Letters: What was the alternative at Spring Valley High School?."