Her smiling photo suggests it could be a story from the Onion, but it is not. I would imagine this thought has crossed the minds of many who deal with difficult teens. Probably not the best judgment. LOL Here is the story:

SMITHVILLE, Ohio – A school resource officer has come under fire after using a Taser to wake up a sleeping high school student, according to WJW.

When a junior fell asleep in class on Aug. 30 at Liberty Preparatory School, the teacher and Interim Principal Jenna Parnell tried to wake him up, both unsuccessfully.

That's when officer Maryssa Boskoski, 32, a part-time school resource officer, had an idea.

“It was just an attempt to wake him up,” Parnell told The Alliance Review. Boskoski “just pulled (the taser) out and pushed the button to make the sound."

The Taser never physically touched the student, but the sparking noise and reaction from the class were enough to wake the student.

"She did take her Taser, remove the cartridge from it, and arced the Taser," Smithville Police Chief Howard Funk confirmed to WEWS.

Boskoski was placed on unpaid leave after the incident.

"I was a little surprised by it," Parnell said to WEWS. "Our interest is in the safety of our students, so hearing that go off was a little alarming."

The police chief will meet with the village solicitor to determine if criminal charges should be filed.

According to Funk, the officer violated use of Taser policy, which could cost Boskoski her job.

Earlier in 2018, Boskoski reportedly neglected to take out the cartridge from a Taser before conducting a spark test, causing the Taser to deploy near another officer, WEWS reports. She was told then that another similarly-negligent incident could mean disciplinary action.

LINK:https://wgntv.com/2018/09/07/school-resource-officer-on-leave-for-using-taser-to-wake-sleeping-student/

Headline very misleading. The officer didn't use the taser. It just made a sound. Nobody was tased.

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I was a little surprised by it," Parnell said to WEWS. "Our interest is in the safety of our students, so hearing that go off was a little alarming.

So the sound of a taser endangers students?

How snowflakes are formed.

Can they show us on the doll where the scary sound hurt them?

Headline corrected. The student to me looked about thirty years of age with his full beard.

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I was a little surprised by it," Parnell said to WEWS. "Our interest is in the safety of our students, so hearing that go off was a little alarming."

The police chief will meet with the village solicitor to determine if criminal charges should be filed.

How was this in any way unsafe? And criminal charges?!?!? For what?

In HS, if you fell asleep you could expect several of our teaches to throw dry erase markers at you. When I went through the academy (not that long ago), the instructors had training knives...a plastic knife that delivered a low voltage shock to make it feel like you'd been cut when you came into contact with the "blade." If you fell asleep in class, they threatened to sneak up behind you and "murder" you in your sleep. Nobody got hurt, nobody died, and it was great motivation to stay awake!

I can see the outrage if the SRO had actually shocked the kid, but just spark testing it to make a sound? You've gotta be kidding me. We are rapidly becoming a nation of useless pansies.

My agency considers a spark display a use of force. It is unauthorized with his, I guarantee it. Pretty dumb move.

My high school science teacher would slam a book or something down next to you if you fell asleep. Then when you started to calm down and not have a heart attack he would ask you questions about what he was talking about.

If someone did this to my son, I wouldn't mind

This job used to be fun.

Now it’s just a race to the retirement line before you do something that hurts someone’s feelings and costs you your pension. Oh, and everything you do is recorded, and god forbid you post anything online that sounds bad either.

We used to taze each other all the time, playing around. Now we can’t turn the damn things on without activating every body camera in shouting distance.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:

Now it’s just a race to the retirement line before you do something that hurts someone’s feelings and costs you your pension. Oh, and everything you do is recorded, and god forbid you post anything online that sounds bad either.

Recent factual studies have shown that LEOs in Baltimore and Chicago have pulled back on "real" police work. They've been shitted on by the press, the populace, and their own departments.

Consequently crime has risen a lot. I'd do the exact same thing. Dispatch advises there's a fight at a location notorious for less-than-stellar intellect, and then I'm slow-rolling. The saying "No Tension-Collect a Pension" comes to mind.

Outrage is addictive....it seems.

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In HS, if you fell asleep you could expect several of our teaches to throw dry erase markers at you.

We had the chalk erasers thrown at us. White cloud around you for 10-15 minutes, chalk dust on you until that class was out and you cleaned it off, and those around you pissed off for having to breathe the chalk dust due to your ignorance.

I remember a teacher who wouldn't hesitate to throw erasers from the caulk board at sleeping or arent students. No one ever complained. The student would pay attention after that. A few laughs from the others.

No one ever thought of complaining to telling anyone. Well, maybe other students that so and so got beamed with an eraser.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
My agency considers a spark display a use of force. It is unauthorized with his, I guarantee it. Pretty dumb move.

Yep!

At USNA, I had the joy of taking Celestial Navigation. From a active SEAL LCDR. Class was after lunch, so lights out to see the stars, and snooze on.

I woke once in an interesting choke hold as instructor used me to demonstrate to the rest of the class one of the many ways he could kill with his bare hands... "one more pound of pressure this way, and MIDN Dreadnaught's neck would snap..."

I got to sue no one. I'm still triggered by the sight of sextants.

My thermodynamics professor was a funny guy nearing retirement. He carried a violin case with him every class and kept it near the podium. One day, a classmate fell asleep, my prof opened the violin case, extracted a super soaker, and proceeded to hose down the sleeping student. After the laughter subsided he proclaimed, “my aim isn’t what it used to be so if the person next to you falls asleep it’s in your best interest to wake them up or risk getting sprayed too”

Nobody fell asleep the rest of the semester and as far as I know nobody reported him to admin.

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In HS, if you fell asleep you could expect several of our teaches to throw dry erase markers at you.

We had the chalk erasers thrown at us. White cloud around you for 10-15 minutes, chalk dust on you until that class was out and you cleaned it off, and those around you pissed off for having to breathe the chalk dust due to your ignorance.

We had a black substitute teacher one day and one of the black students was very much asleep. Mr. G wound up with a well loaded chalk eraser and pooooooooofffff! Black student wakes up with a big ass chalk cloud around his head and a perfectly rectangular spot of white in his 'fro. I am fairly certain I never saw the student fall asleep in any class I had with him after that, and Mr. G still teaches at the school on a pretty regular basis .

The zap sound was a stupid stunt, especially since she had a prior history.
That said, Chong has it right. Its no longer about physical survival, its also about political and internal survival.
Really glad I am retired.

My Econ 301 class at UT was in a huge lecture hall, theater style several hundred seats. It was MWF 8 am, taught by the department head who sat people in alphabetical order. I was in seat 9, front row near center.

Most days, I would look back over the room to see many dozen students with Daily Texan newspapers spread over their heads asleep.

Any graduate of a Texas high school could get in in those days, but then you had to run the gauntlet of core classes to stay.

Good lessons in economics and better lessons in survival of the fittest.

Well my drill Sgt. kidney punched a guy in one of our basic training classes when he was asleep.

He never fell asleep in a class again.

But, the Sgt did not get in trouble.

Of course when a guy MUST get fired because his wife with no proof "claims" her husband is beating her, well then I guess it leaves the door open for just damn near anything.

This is where we have been heading for a long time.