Letters: School discipline is not a police job

The discipline of unruly school children is not a law enforcement issue; it is a school’s internal administrative problem.

School administrators incapable or too frightened to do their jobs of enforcing civil decorum in their classrooms should be replaced by others having the courage to either perform their enforcement duties or oversee internally hired school resource officers, armed with non-lethal enforcement tools, to do it for them.

A city- or county-employed law enforcement officer who is assigned to protect a school and its occupants from outside threats should not be burdened with enforcing classroom discipline of young belligerents unless the crisis involves felonious behavior.

School administrators should not be slyly trying to mission creep their disciplinary responsibilities out of the school and onto the shoulders of our dedicated armed law enforcement professionals who are trained to respond in an entirely different manner when directly provoked or ignored by surly members of our society.