7th graders slapped with charges and arrested for putting pepper flakes in a teacher’s soft drink

[Igel]

26. A prank can be fun.

It can be mean.

But when it's revenge for being appropriately punished, it's upping the ante. It says, "If you enforce the rules because I did something wrong, well then. I have a right to do bad things and instead of showing remorse I'm going to punish the enforcer."

At the same time, imagine the following. Teacher treats a student inappropriately on Monday. Teacher gets called to the office and written up for it because the teacher really did behave inappropriately. On Wednesday, that same teacher decides to visit the students at lunch and puts pepper flakes in that students drink, embarrassing the student in front of everybody and causing her pain.

Would we be calling that a "prank"? If not, it's time to rethink the double standard.

Teachers are indentured servants, serfs, slaves, and have no rights. Students are all special creations, innocent and pure, and deserve ponies for just being.

It is true that teachers are to be held to a higher standard, because the students are immature and cannot always reach sound decisions for social and biological reasons. At the same time, that doesn't give them a pass for everything they do to each other and teachers.

This kid needs scared. An intervention. A "come to Jesus" meeting. Needs to stop thinking that everybody owes her a pony--or that since nobody's treating her well, that means she can treat others like shit. It may work. It may not work. But what's been happening hasn't worked, and calls for more of the same will just produce more of the same.