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What would you do if I stabbed you in the stomach with a pencil?I was teaching in a maximum-security juvenile detention center. These young men had been tried as adults for adult crimes and on their 18th birthday, they would go through the fence to the adult prison that was conveniently located right next to us. These young men were not your typical juvenile offenders. Some were serious gang members and actual leaders. Some were murderers, some pedophiles and others were simply demented and needed an exorcism.I did quite well in this job for four years because I listened to advice and kept myself safe. I worked with 11 men and half of these male teachers were Vietnam vets with combat backgrounds. I listened, I stayed alert and I stayed safe.Until we got the new principal. He had been promoted from the special education department of two. He was very flamboyant and very effeminate. This man wore one-piece jumpsuits from the 1960s. They were pea green and pink (he had two) and they were two sizes too small. This was the 1990s.He was promoted due to his seniority and it was rather short-lived I must add here.The student of interest in my story was a young man that became more interested in me as each day of my pregnancy of twins progressed. He started with small threats. All of which I wrote up in an incident report. He was given permission to progress his threats from my very own new principal.This student told me he could do anything he wanted to me and my twin babies because all he had to do was allow my new principal to place his hand on his thigh and say ‘there there, just be nice’ and he would be allowed back into my classroom.Each day this young man’s behavior was becoming more bizarre and more sexually aggressive and more violent towards me as my twins grew in my body.I had written over twenty incident reports of threats from this young man. Eight were of stabbing a pencil into my abdomen. He would ask me when he came into the room “What would you do if I stabbed you in the stomach with a pencil?” On the morning after I had submitted my twentieth report, my new principal informed me that this young man ‘really didn’t mean it’ and he was once again putting him into my classroom.I went numb. I was quite big at this time from my six-month pregnancy of twins. I remember stumbling out of the education building and going to the Warden's office. I have never spoken to this woman before in my life. I asked her rather large and foreboding secretary if I could speak with the Warden.She went into the Warden's office and returned immediately and told me to go in. I remember going in and sitting down. I had in my hands, over 20 incident report copies and I began to snivel. Then I began to sob. Now picture what she saw. This young pregnant woman just sobbing in fear in her office.She finally calmed me down long enough to get the story and look at the incident reports. She stood up so fast her chair slammed into the bookcase behind her. She yelled to her secretary and called the Sergent of security into the room.I had never spoken to him before either. She commanded him to implement an immediate lockdown of the inmates. They were just leaving breakfast and had not lined up for school yet.She told me to return to my room and relax and get some tea.I found out later all of what transpired after I left that office.ALL principals from all three facilities were called in. From the adult facility, from our violent juvenile facility, and from the non-violent juvenile facility.They were placed in a room and screamed at by my Warden for over an hour. Apparently she threw the twenty copies of threats I had given her at them. Physically threw them at them. Every man there was told their jobs were on the line. Yes, they were all men. But, I would like to say that most were good men and they commended me for having the guts to go to her.My ‘new’ principal was immediately demoted back to a teaching position with the pay scale it entailed.Four upper principals conducted a meeting with all the teachers of ALL three facilities to announce that NO ONE should be threatened over twenty times and if they are threatened even once, then changes would be made. This was after four days of lockdown.I had become quite a celebrity among the teaching staff of the three facilities. All because I was terrified he would stab me in the stomach with a pencil.

For legal reasons.If a student needs to be expelled, there has to be documentation that the student has a history of behavior problems, and other interventions/punishments were tried. You can’t just go from zero to expelling the student, unless it’s for something like bringing a gun to school.Similarly, if a parent sues the school for unfairly punishing their child, or a different parent sues the school for not protecting their child from another child, the lawyers will want to see the problem student’s record. Having a documented history of behavior incidents shows that the teachers did what they were supposed to do.

No, and implementing measures like this would cause more trouble than they would prevent.I am a teacher, and I see bullying behavior on a daily basis. This behavior can create significant disruptions in instruction and cause my classroom to be an unsafe and unwelcoming environment to students who are the victims of bullies. I have also seen parents who take shockingly little interest in the academic and social well-being of their children, even when the child’s behavior is frequently reported to them and disciplinary action is taken.If anyone should be in favor of fining parents of bullies, it should be teachers like me.I am against it.It would not stop the behaviorBehavioral psychology tells us that adolescent children have underdeveloped brains. Children and teens (especially males) show limited impulse control, emotional swings, and take unnecessary risks because of where they are developmentally.[1][2][3] Impulsive behavior is extremely difficult to control, and fining parents for snap decisions their kids make (even after multiple offenses) would not guarantee the behavior stops.It would target economically disadvantaged familiesStudies show that children from economically disadvantaged homes are more likely to present discipline problems in school.[4] Imposing a fine on these families would create a worse financial situation without improving the behavior.It would put a target on challenging studentsWhile the vast majority of teachers would never use a system like this improperly, a system of fines for bullying behavior could encourage misreporting of behavior incidents to target children who pose chronic behavior problems. Rather than addressing the root causes of bullying, fines would create a system of retaliation in some systems (again, likely low-performing and economically disadvantaged systems).There would be so much red tape and so many lawsuitsHow do you enforce these fines? How do you define “incidents” and “bullying” in these cases? How long does a parent have to pay the fine? Who enforces it? Would these cases go to court before fines are levied? Would they go back to court if left unpaid? What consequences could the school/district pursue for non-payment?Those questions don’t even get into the issues of students with diagnosed behavioral problems. How would a Manifestation Determination Review factor into these new policies?Parents would sue when they believed their students were being targeted. Teachers would have to keep even closer records. Discipline documentation and classroom management would need to change significantly to accommodate policies for fining parents.Data collection, court costs, lawsuits, policy changes — the costs would be staggering.So what should be done?There is one part of the article I like: suggesting parenting/bullying classes for parents in response to multiple instances of bullying behavior. This is a solution I can get behind because it attempts to resolve the issue in a positive way without penalizing the parents (aside from requiring a time commitment to attend sessions). In addition, the district should be willing to pay for these sessions, and could even offer to host classes at local schools throughout the year.We cannot eliminate bullying from our schools, but we can help parents (and even encourage them) to learn how to deal with their children and provide resources for doing so that do not place a financial burden on the families.Footnotes[1] Teenage brain development | Raising Children Network[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182916/[3] Why Teenagers Are So Impulsive[4] http://www.nber.org/chapters/c0596.pdf