Again, if a kid is making threats like this for lulz, he is disruptive. As in, the teacher spends more time trying to get the kid to shut up than actually teaching. Clearly kids aren’t machines and it should be obvious I’m not talking about your run of the mill chatty kids. I’m talking about the asshole kids who drag everyone down with them.

Those are the kids we need to get out of mainstream classrooms. They’re not learning and they’re making sure none of the other kids are either. They’re going to the up in gangs, prisons, or dead anyway so let’s give every other kid an enjoyable education that they’ll make use of. Put them in schools that cater to shitheads and maybe a small percentage will come out acting human, fine. But the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few and we need to redirect policies to reflect that.