Here’s Guilford County Board of Education member Amos Quick during the board’s recent debate on school resource officers carrying Tasers:
“Children make mistakes, and children act out in ways that are not nice, and it’s our responsibility as adults to discipline them,” Quick said. “But there’s a difference between punishment and discipline. To Taser a 15-year-old kid? Some say it’s justified. I disagree.”
Funny, the board would later be briefed in closed session on an instance of a ‘child acting out in a way that wasn’t nice.’ A 14-year-old, 200-pound Northeast Guilford High School student assaulted another student and the SRO who intervened. The officer was thrown “into a wall of lockers, injuring him badly enough to require surgery.”
The SRO later said he didn’t draw his Taser because of the criticism surrounding the Tasering of a 14-year-old Ragsdale student.
The disconnect between out elected officials and reality can be downright scary sometimes, can’t it?
