"If they're disrespectful in your class, odds are they're disrespectful *everywhere,* and odds are they need an advocate, or at the very least, they want to feel like there's someone on their side who may have a chance at liking them or treating them the way they'd like to be treated. Whenever I tried to be that person, it pretty much *always* worked out."

You hit it on the bullseye with this post. There's almost always some underlying issues going on with a child that acts in this manner. The solution with these types of people is communication and letting them know someone is there for them not to get physical with them. People don't understand that what that officer did is how you create a criminal not a law abiding upstanding citizen.