Letters: Student to blame for confrontation

Webster’s defines “responsibility” as “obligation, accountability, dependability, involving duties.” When I was growing up, it meant standing up for what you have done, good or bad, taking the blame or accepting the accolades. A person’s reputation depended on it.

Today, people are being schooled in how to avoid accountability by being deceptive, manipulative, shifting blame to others or just plain lying.

When I read about a disruptive female student at Spring Valley High School refusing to obey first her teacher, then an administrator and finally a law enforcement person, I was shocked. Then who gets the blame? The teacher maybe did not handle the situation in the most gentile way, or maybe the administrator could have exercised other options before summoning the resource officer.

The root cause here is the behavior of the student. Why is she or her guardian not the one to take responsibility? As a result of her actions, one man has lost his job and many resources were spent that could have been put to a much better use. We as a society can do much better.