Is it time to start disciplining our children in school again?

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Hell yes, you would, and you should be fired.

WTF is it with people: Either they completely ignore the problem, or they think the only way to resolve it is to slap the shit out of someone?

There were other adults in the room: ONLY the TEACHER tried to resolve the issue.

Why?

Because all the other adults felt it was HER JOB.

Lemme tell ya something, when YOU are in a PUBLIC SCHOOL, then YOU can say anything YOU fucking want to say (obviously yelling "Fire" or being foul mouthed will get you in trouble).

ANY ONE of the MANY adults could have helped the teacher simply by joining her and agreeing that the girl was being annoying. Usually, middle school girls cannot tolerate more than one adult, and will comply. Common sense, for christssakes.

I get what your saying, I definently feel like more adults should have got involved, at the point the teacher intervened the child was already making rude comments and insulting other adults in the crowd anyways.

Even more reason to wonder why the other adults would just sit there.

The reason kids are so fucking bratty IN PUBLIC is because IT IS TOLERATED!
In many societies, the whole town, or village, or tribe is watching you, and will take action. There's nothing to prevent us from doing this too except our own apathy.

You just nailed it, the reason kids behave like shit is because they are used to the adults around them doing nothing, which is why that bratty girl kept insulting people and making rude comments, because she knew that nobody in there was going to do anything about it.