Tasers for Teachers.

' Or upping the anti ...'

"Taser Critics Should Note Violence Against Police."
"Those critics whipping up hysteria against the issue of tasers to police, must take note of the increasing violence being directed against Police," Police Association President Greg O'Connor said today."


But then those 'wannabe tasered in our society have been through the education system, so what of our teachers?

"There is a time & place for discipline," says minister ... "but gone are the times when you deserve a jolly good thrashing, nowadays you have to beg for it."










5 October 2006 "Violence against teachers around the globe is one of the key barriers to quality education for all, (post) PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today."


“We heard at our Annual Conference last week teachers who had experienced repeated verbal intimidation, threats of rape, desks being thrown out a window, and of one school where three teachers were assaulted in a single day."


Now I believe the MOE is looking at earlier intervention (age) with children to avoid these difficulties ... so just perhaps 'reasonable force' for correction, i.e. a discrete smack at the time of the transgression, might just stop the problem behaviour, might just override any lack of response to social sanction and it might, it might just mean that tasers can be relegated to the 'not necessary pile.' Just perhaps ... and perhaps then all our children can have access to education.

This seems somehow just a little bit better approach than Turia's talking and the police's tasering the over fifteen year olds.