Letters: School discipline law essential to keeping order

The “disturbing schools” law is one of the most potent weapons school resource officers and administrators have in maintaining order in the schools.

The people who have attempted to take this tool from those who keep order in our schools have quite obviously not been in a public school lately. Their assumptions prove that: They suggest that a simple solution to discipline problems is a mere phone call to parents who are moments away.

The reality is that many of the troubled youth who display the bizarre, sometimes unbelievable behavior are dropped off at school, and the FBI could not find their parents or reach them by phone.

The students know that and ignore administrators trying to get compliance, often violently. The school resource officer is the last resort. The proposal would leave educators and law officers no way to deal with these students who threaten the order and security of the entire school. No resource officer or administrator would lay hands on them, and they will roam, refuse and do as they please.