&#62;<i>Once police officers are handling what ought to be simple disciplinary action, it's easy for a student to get charged with something like assaulting a teacher</i><p>Certainly in the UK more kids assault teachers than get arrested for it; far more than get charged.<p>If the kid does something that looks to the law like assault to their teacher then what do you think is proper punishment? "Don't do that again!"?<p>When a kid does violently assault a teacher then this strikes me as more than sufficient cause to investigate the child's home-life and upbringing to ensure they're not themselves subject to similar abuse.