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Yanno, coming back afterwards and saying "Sorry" doesn't negate several factors. The psychological effects this has on young minds is serious enough, do we really want to foot the bill to traumatize and abuse children?
Ah - you hadn't thoght about that side, have you? Calling in the police to arrest a student for actions that are best handled inside the school costs a lot of taxpayer dollars. It's not cheap to send a police officer out, not cheap to arrest a child for being a child, and not cheap to transport said child to the police station and book the child, and not cheap to put the child up before a judge, and not cheap to assign officials to oversee whatever punishment said stupid judge decides to mete out instead of remanding it back to the school.
I think taxpayers, who foot this tremendous bill should be up in arms and protesting loudly.
It's a waste of resources when we're already paying school officials to maintain school discipline.
Police should only be called in when lives are endangered, and I completely fail to see how a life is endangered by a pre-teen scribbling washable notes on a desk.
I think any teacher or school official who calls in the police for anything less than danger to life and limb (and probably even then) should be suspended without pay pending an investigation into the matter by the school board and agroup of concerned parents. If the call was not justified, then the one who called in the police and the one who reported the infraction should bear the costs of the police response. And I'm totally cook with the school employee who called the police being charged with child endangerment for traumatizing th child.
I mean get real - arresting a 5 year old for a temper tantrum? Arresting a 12 year old for scribbling on a desk? Arresting an 8 year old for having a Lego playset at school that has teeny plastic Lego weapons in it?
Schools are going crazy and the police are abetting it. What possessed the police to actually arrest these children instead of saying to the school, "This isn't a crime, you handle it yourself. Oh, and by the way, you'll get our bill in the mail for calling us needlessly."