Electrifying Students

Democratic values may have triumphed on Capitol Hill Sunday, but out here in the real world, the good citizenship lesson is still Obey or Suffer.

Digby is still on the case:

This is one way to teach kids to unquestioningly obey authority:

A 17-year-old Ypsilanti High School student was tasered today after police say he refused to go to the principal’s office.

Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Derrick Jackson said the student was being unruly in the hallway and was being escorted to the principal’s office by school Deputy John Campbell.

Jackson said the student yanked away and refused to go to the office. He said the incident escalated, and the deputy deployed his taser to get the student under control and maintain the safety of school personnel.

It was necessary because otherwise he would have had to put a bullet in the kid like they used to and nobody wants that.

They really should be doing this when the misbehaving kids are a lot younger. Maybe kindergarten age. By the time they reach third or fourth grade they will have a Pavlovian response to any order they hear, probably something along the lines of falling to the ground instantly and begging not to be electrocuted. The school personnel will be much safer then.

Don't imagine your kid is safe until we take lethal weapons - including tasers - away from school officials and start teaching adults how to deal with children without harming them.