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Letters: Save disturbing-schools law

No school resource officer goes to work hoping to arrest a student. No administrator enjoys having a student arrested. These arrests occur because of student behaviors that are bizarre, violent, strange and disruptive and would shock most people who have not spent any time in a school lately.

Many disruptions are staged, with videographers ready with the cellphone to record the deeds for social media, thus ensuring instant celebrity status. Many outbursts are performed by habitual offenders.

The parents of the disruptors don’t answer the phone when the school calls and even instruct their child not to give out their real number, so they suffer no disruptions to their day. There wouldn’t be a problem if children were instructed on appropriate school behavior before they ever make it to school. Changing the law and dumping the problem on school administrators is not a solution.

Joel T. Foster

Roebuck

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