Weak teachers...strong pupils?
When I was at high school we had a serious problem with vandalism, like the other kids knew who it was and told the teachers, but without proof there was nothing they could do about it. Kids were smashing up windows, science labs etc. Then just laughing about it. People considered the head teacher to be weak and wishy-washy and some kids were fed up and took matters into their own hands.
One kid got some other kids together, they were 11 - 12, to do something about it.
They caught a 13 year old vandal on a bus one Saturday. They cuffed him and took him off the bus, as one of those kids had a dad that was a cop. Everyone was laughing, the bus driver, the other passengers, the kids and even the vandal! They took him off not at his stop but as theirs and the driver laughed and said "kids" to the other passengers.
So they took him to one of their homes and handcuffed him, in the basement, to an old iron rad. That must have weighed a ton! They left him his writing hand and a pad and a pen and told him to write a confession.
they left him for hours, checking up and finally they went in about 9pm. The vandal was red eyed from crying and had written a confession to breaking the school windows. But was told that his confession meant nothing if he wasn't a) sorry and b) didn't sign it. He did both and they told him to see the head teacher on Monday morning.
He did. The hold asked him why he confessed and he said he felt guilty. I think the teacher was both amused and bemused at that and told the kid he would have to pay for the damage!
After word got out about what happened to that vandal loads of kids were confessing to the head teacher. At one assembly he said he felt like a priest taking confession!
Were the kids right to deal with this problem? Or should they have just left it to the adults and teachers?
One kid got some other kids together, they were 11 - 12, to do something about it.
They caught a 13 year old vandal on a bus one Saturday. They cuffed him and took him off the bus, as one of those kids had a dad that was a cop. Everyone was laughing, the bus driver, the other passengers, the kids and even the vandal! They took him off not at his stop but as theirs and the driver laughed and said "kids" to the other passengers.
So they took him to one of their homes and handcuffed him, in the basement, to an old iron rad. That must have weighed a ton! They left him his writing hand and a pad and a pen and told him to write a confession.
they left him for hours, checking up and finally they went in about 9pm. The vandal was red eyed from crying and had written a confession to breaking the school windows. But was told that his confession meant nothing if he wasn't a) sorry and b) didn't sign it. He did both and they told him to see the head teacher on Monday morning.
He did. The hold asked him why he confessed and he said he felt guilty. I think the teacher was both amused and bemused at that and told the kid he would have to pay for the damage!
After word got out about what happened to that vandal loads of kids were confessing to the head teacher. At one assembly he said he felt like a priest taking confession!
Were the kids right to deal with this problem? Or should they have just left it to the adults and teachers?
