You stupid piece of shyt what if the kid has a disruptive home environment where she can't get proper sleep?
@valet
Then it's up to her, not anyone else, especially since she's not an adult, to tell whomever is in charge whether her teacher or the judge "hey, I didn't get enough sleep last night" and if that's not a good enough explanation then be forth coming and tell them about her disruptive household environment.
No just fall back asleep, and be uncooperative and disrespectful, not only to the judge, not only to her teacher, but to her peers.
He spun the situation into an entire lesson, she had legal representation and he deferred to her peers as a jury. He gave her a taste of the legal system before she goes out and acts disrespectful, disobedient and noncompliant in the real world and ends up in court for real, where she can't just apologize.
I hate defending teachers because teachers only want to be teachers when they have good students and when students do well, when students are failing and acting a fool then suddenly they're absolved of being teachers. You can't have students sleeping in class. And if a kid is sleeping in class, the answer to being woke up isn't to go back to sleep and he disrespectful, noncompliant and disobedient. If you are having problems at home that are bad to the point where you can't sleep you need to tell someone about it. And if you are a teacher you need to ask about it. Then back to being a student if you are asked about problems as home, you need to be honest about it. Not lie, no don't snitch, not tell them to mind their own business.
That being said. I don't agree with black children being placed in handcuffs.