"She's a child!"

[Chemisse]

126. I know for a fact that kids I send to the office are not going to be brutalized.

You forget that there are other students in the classroom who have a right to an education. Perhaps not in the case of this girl, but in most cases where a student is sent out, that student is disrupting class in some way.

When he or she does that, they are impeding learning and, very often, creating an environment in which the other students don't feel safe.

If you had a child in school who complained of a constant uproar in class due to the behavior of one or two students, I am confident you would lobby to have that child taken out of the class when he is disruptive. Any good parent is going to be upset if their child is constantly distracted or even frightened.

We have a school resource officer too, who has served this purpose on occasion (although not for any of my students). He is a kind man, has a good rapport with the kids, and mostly, he would never hurl a child across the room.

In this case, the teacher did what she was supposed to do, and the administrator did his job, as defined by the school's apparent policy to have a resource officer available for such incidents. It is the cop who came in ready for battle. He alone is at fault.