Student Behavior
In an Aug. 13 letter, June Peterson of Aliso Viejo complains of the “deterioration of behavior in the public schools.”
I am very sympathetic because of her experiences as a [Tustin] substitute teacher, but after being thrown to the ground and assaulted by a student she “asked that he be put on probation . . . rather than expelled . . . so that he could graduate the following month.”
In my opinion, the moment that student assaulted her or anyone else, he lost his right to continue as a student and should have been expelled. In many school districts today he would be expelled.
It is ironic that Peterson, by being “overly kind,” probably contributed to the problem.
DARREL CROSE
Anaheim
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