donerail : I haven't seen that scene, and it does seem a little farfetched to me too (but I hardly ever watch TV, especially the news). The only incident we had where I live was one 15yr old kid who started to hurl all kinds of bad words at the cops, and was gently arrested for that. Since my guess is that he was basically trying to impress his classmates by playing the real badass dude, I'm thinking the cops may have done him a big favor by busting him !

And no, there was no outcry over this here, school violence and the incidents we had are taken seriously, and teachers' union are powerful. I guess parents and teachers prefer to see cops searching a few kids, than to see those same kids bring weapons and/or drugs into the schools (many knives and hash bars were seized during this *operation*).

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