8-year-old student with anger issues destroys his 3rd grade classroom, teacher takes rest of the class into the hallway and lets him reek havoc without consequences: 'Are schools not allowed to punish bad students anymore?'

The rulebook for disciplining kids in the classroom has been thrown out the window. Nobody wants to return to the days of Paddlin' Peggy Hill for good reasons, but there has to be a compromise between spanking students for misbehavior and just letting it happen without consequence. Even the concept of an afterschool or lunchtime detention seems foreign to many of today's students. I certainly don't remember kids regularly going to detention when I was in K-12 public schooling, and it's gotten more lax in the years since. I've heard teachers online saying that their school administration punishes them for sending disruptive students to the principal's office. It's a lose-lose-lose situation for teachers, students, and society at large.

One parent whose child attends a rural school district is fed up with one disruptive student ruining her son's education. Instead of disciplining or removing him, his tantrums control what everyone else is doing.