IS THIS BULLSHIT OR APPROPRIATE?

[HairOfTheDog]

Arguments for sending the other kids out of the room (might not have needed to call the cops if they'd done that early)...diffuses the situation, reduces the ego effect on the girl, they might have been able to talk some sense in to her and the other kids wouldn't have been "traumatized. Plus it might have taken a lot less class time.

Argument against: nobody there to film it.

Thoughts?

If I'd been the teacher and she kept mouthing off, I would probably have told her that she could stay if she wasn't disruptive and asked the administrator to call her parent and tell the parent to come down immediately.

If the girl wouldn't zip it so class could resume and still wouldn't leave her chair, then I would have asked the administrator or another faculty member to stay with her there and resumed class in another area (or dismissed them early if there was no room to be found).

In either case, the girl would have been formally suspended (or expelled if she has other infractions) in the presence of her parent before leaving the school that day.

I don't think police intervention and arrest was necessary to handle a mouthy disobedient teen. However, had she been threatening/endangering herself or others or doing drugs in the room or something of that sort, I'd have cleared the room immediately and called in the SRO to deal with her appropriately, with another witness present (with or without video rolling).