Arrest of girl who texted in class prompts civil rights case

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19. Well it was a School Resource Officer, so he was already there.

In the wake of the Columbine shootings, most schools have actual police officers working in their schools. They are usually called by the principal or the the teacher to remove any student from the classroom. Because teachers are so afraid of being sued by parents they will not even think about removing a kid from their classroom, so it is left up to a police officer. It's an unfortunate side effect from the sue happy country we live in. What a teacher would have handled 20 years ago on their own, they now leave it up to cops, who of course are often far more aggressive in how they handle disruptive students.