School fines 10-year-old for sleeping

The modern American school system at work, folks.

In our day, school was school. If a kid fell asleep, the teacher might tap their desk, scold them for their inattentiveness, and let it go.

Today, however, the school drugs the kid, makes a scene, calls the cops, and fines them back to the Stone Age.

At Travis Elementary School in El Paso, a 10-year-old student almost surely had to empty his piggy bank after being caught sleeping in class.

For starts, he had fallen asleep because he was being drugged for a "behavior disorder."

Then the teacher physically restrained him after he fell asleep again. Restrain him from what? Who could he possibly hurt while he was asleep?

Then the boy left the class and laid down on the floor in the hall.

The school promptly gave him a $260 ticket, and police charged him with a misdemeanor.

It's unclear whether the school called the police, or if there were already cops in the school. Probably the latter, because our schools today are more or less prisons. We didn't have cops roaming our schools 30 years ago. These days, most American schools seem to have their own police station.

If my childhood pals had the police called on them every time they fell asleep at school, you could have used it to fill a whole season of 'Cops'.

Now a 10-year-old has a criminal record because he fell asleep in class. Schools sure know how to give someone a start in life, huh?

(Source: http://www.theindychannel.com/education/21215165/detail.html)