Seems like there’s a growing number of kids who aren’t held accountable for their actions by parents or todays society, and who struggle to manage their emotions and anger against other kids in, and outside of school. I think schools should require kids to take some sort of mandatory anger/emotion management course to talk to them about resources, expectations, consequences, and how to communicate with people in a healthy way rather than taking violent action against others. Hoping this would help eliminate school shootings, and other volatile moments we see in society so often these days.
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I believe that this might be crossing the line a bit, where public schools take on the burden of failing parents regarding proper handling of their children’s personal emotions. Schools and taxpayers should not be held accountable for wayward and undisciplined children. This is where “old school” values come into play. The reason why some children behave this way is because their parents were not properly shown parenting. If anything, the parent of anger-prone children who violate the rights of others (including teachers and other students) should be court-ordered to attend mandatory parenting classes as a form of “community service”, and if the child remains uncontrollable in classroom settings, the child should be removed from the class and sent to the proper “reformatory” school setting where the child is properly reformed and learns the proper meaning of what “spare the rod and spoil the child” means. It worked in “old school” America for over 200 years, raising good, hardworking, ethical, moral, traditional, salt-of-the-earth Americans, and it can work again.
Today’s lazy bleeding-heart “child-spawners” (who don’t want to be “the bad guy” with their spoiled ungovernable children) helped to bring us where we are today. You know the type – you have seen her in Walmart, carrying a screaming tantrum-throwing child, crying like its leg was cut off, but instantly shuts up when “enabling mommy” gives the child back the candy that has yet to be paid for at the register, just to make the child’s screams stop echoing throughout the entire store…yea…that one. Those are the children who shoot up future schools when they hit puberty. Everybody knows it, but few mention to “enabling momny” that her ongoing enabling is inappriopriate for raising mentally healthy and emotionally stable children.
Reflecting back, when my first child threw a noisy tantrum at Walmart next to the candy shelf by the register, I stopped the checkout process, brought my child into a private area, spanked him, and verbally corrected his behavior. He never did that again – he grew up to give me well-disciplined well-behaved intelligent grand children. This isn’t rocket science – just signs of extremely poor (or missing) parenting. No need to have taxpayers fund the burden of lazy parents and unruly children. Perhaps the failed parent needs “the spanking” via community service counseling classes on parenting (complete with exams. homework, and a mandatory passing grade) and the unruly child needs to be “reformed” under special conditions, away from other productive children. Simple as that.
If you are going to throw public money on ‘anger management and behavioral reforms’, spend that money INSIDE a reformatory school that actually deals with such juvenile behavioral problems without impacting the rest of a properly functioning classroom that is trying to focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic (instead of “unnecessary anger management homework assignments”). My two cents in it. 
Moral of the Story: When the teacher finds a bad spot on her “teacher’s apple”, she doesn’t throw the entire apple into the waste basket…she cuts out the bad spot, removes it from the rest of the good fruit, and proceeds to enjoy her apple."
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