What are your thoughts on this? Do you think the discipline in schools these days is any good/effective at all? Is eight hours of community service in addition to being arrested fair to you? What could they do to improve discipline and the methods used?

Personally I think it is rediculous and that students are clearly not being disciplined correctly. Being given eight hours of community service sounds like what you would get for petty theft or similar crimes.

Doodling on a table at least in my school was common amongst us when bored, yeah it isnt right and you are damaging property but surely the teacher should be watching enough to see when someone is doing this and perhaps tell them off and request them to clean it off otherwise they get a few days detention/isolation? Perhaps making it clear that you will be punished if found doing such things would help?

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Writing on a desk should warrant detention, not getting arrested.

Yes, bad children need to be punished. The schools let the kids walk all over them now, esp. considering that the teachers have too many students to handle a lot of the time.

I think that it should be better! In Spanish schools the teachers can hit you but if they hit you, you can hit them back! I hate that! I think that it is stupid and the whole class normally doesn't shut up at all! :(

The normal punishment for writing on desks (in my school anyway) was having to clean every mark off all the tables in the classroom at lunchtime. Being arrested for writing on the desk is taking it way to far in my opinion. As for discipline in schools in general, kids are always going to play up, it's what they do so no amount of punishment will ever stop it completely. The current level (from what I've experienced) is effective at limiting bad behaviour as much as possible.

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thats only kiddie stuff. the adults, who impose such penalties cause of nothingness, should clean toilets for ten years in the kindergarten. they didn't know anything about life. we just live in the 21. century and no more in the antiquity in Rome, where such penalties already were regarded as obsolete.

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It really depend's on the teacher and how far they'll go to punish the student. One of my teacher's is a complete pushover and there's often a group which will mess around in his class.
Honestly, they're annoying and I wish he would just punish them properly. He'll tell them to stop and to be quiet but it doesn't work and he doesn't go any further with punishment.

But in Alexa's case,I think that was too harsh. Seriously? Getting arrested for doodling. I think that's a bit too much.
They should have either been made to clean it and put in detention or isolation instead.
*Sigh* What has the world come to? Arresting a kid for doodling on a table?

No as they suspend kids so they cant come back to school for a few days NO KID WANTS TO GO TO SCHOOL so they just keep doing it to get time off school.

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She got arrested for doodling on her desk? You've got to be kidding me! People in my school draw on the desks all the time. I sometimes do it myself. The most she should have gotten was I.S.S. (In School Suspension) or detention.

Being arrested was going way to far in my opinion. I think the school systems are too strict nowadays. My dad told me that, when he was in school, the teachers where pranksters and they liked to have a good time. You can't really find anyone like that anymore.

We only act up because it's so boring, and we want to liven up the day. Sometimes I wish the teachers would take it from our point of view. You know, actually sit in the desks and have someone else teach the lesson.

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That's ridiculous. When I was in high school if you wrote on a desk you had to clean it off and occasionally you'd be given a detention. Arresting someone for it is just way to far.

Not even close. I say bring back administrative punishment. A 6 foot 5 black man built like The govenator with rings on all his fingers. I'd love to see some scrawny punk stand up to him. I'd pay to see it in fact. See if he forgets his homework.

Fucking kids these days :(