IS THIS BULLSHIT OR APPROPRIATE?

[HairOfTheDog]

Although I don't think it should be the police's responsibility to set the kid straight, I can understand why the mother did it.

Say Mom just hauled off and smacked her kid for being mouthy. Kid goes into school and says "mom smacked me" By law, the school is obligated to report that to the authorities. Mom gets in trouble.

From what I have seen these days, most anything a parent does for discipline, can be considered child abuse. Hell, even grounding a kid can be considered false imprisonment.

I understand why she did it too, but I think parents need to find an effective way to discipline their kids without burdening police resources.

I saw this in the news this morning.

A New Jersey police department is asking parents to stop threatening their kids that they'll be arrested if they are bad, reports CBS New York.

Wildwood Police Chief Robert Regalbuto said officers do not want children to be scared of police when they need help.

"Over the course of a season, we hear hundreds of parents tell their children, 'Don't do anything bad or he (the officer) is going to arrest you,'" Regalbuto said. "We don't want children to be fearful of police officers. We want them to know that police officers are their friends and are there to help them."

Setting up police as the bad guys in kids' minds is shortsighted. We already have enough problems with police/community relations without ingraining that message. I hope parents stop using police officers in that capacity.

That's too bad. It's the school's/students loss.

I watched a couple of his teaching videos and read about his accomplishments in the field of education. He seems to be an A+ educator; someone I'd feel lucky to have teaching my senior nieces and nephews in high school.

Olio didn't choose the Ginsberg poem for class reading, one of the students did. I understand why he didn't want to deny that student's request in a college prep course. But, he should have denied it anyway if he didn't want to get into hot water with admin and the parents. That shitstorm was predictable, IMO.

Maybe Olio failed to consider the possible consequences. Or, maybe he decided to take the risk, on principle. Either way, I agree with you that it's a loss to the school and students. Too bad they couldn't have just suspended him for a week without pay or something instead.