Posted on 03/01/2017 7:31:16 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
A second grade student was placed into handcuffs at a Tacoma-area elementary school on Wednesday afternoon. The Franklin-Pierce District spokesman told KIRO 7 News that the boy was “assaultive” and school employees tried to deescalate the situation.
School employees used some physical techniques – mostly trying to hold him and prevent him from harming himself. When they could not control him, they called a school resource officer from Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. That officer handcuffed the boy.
KIRO 7 News reached out to mother Amanda Bullinger. She says her son has a sensory processing disorder and has been bullied for months.
Bullinger says that between seven minutes getting a call from the school and then making it to campus, her son was in handcuffs.
According to the district, restraints can only be used when there is imminent bodily harm to themselves or to others. The district is reviewing the incident.
Lots of local color commentary on the KIRO 7 Facebook page here, including from the mother:
https://www.facebook.com/KIRO7Seattle/?ref=page_internal
I would be absolutely livid if some government school put my 7 year old in cuffs. Assh8les.
Yes, but when my teacher-wife is being assaulted by one, what should be done? NOBODY on site is allowed to defend themselves on pain of firing and civil lawsuit.
Your right, hand cuffs are kinda hmmmm, but a good whack upside da head would have been appropriate, or whack of a ruler, or a swift hand to the butt.
Lasting memories like cops and handcuffs can be a bit memorable, scarring.
But again, whack the little shit in the butt and just get er done. I live in Tacoma area and approve my message.
My daughter, who is a k-5 teacher had a telephone thrown at her during her first year.
My former neighbor adopted two older foster kids. They were both bat poo crazy from the first day she got them.
Any time you corrected the 8 year old, he would start jabbing his finger in his nose and make it believe.
The other one was extremely violent.
So I’m ok with handcuffs on a crazy kid.
We’re they actually handcuffs or ziplock ties? Maybe a straight jacket should be standard issue?
What did the little 8 year old make his nose believe?
Sorry...had to XD
When your teacher-wife can’t handle a 7 year old, it’s time for her to get out of teaching.
I have 3 boys in grade school now, and I went to ghetto grammar schools.
totally agree
When I was a kid my brother and I would act up and my Dad would grab us each by the earlobe and ‘bounce’ our heads together.
Very effective.
I would have preferred handcuffs.
I’m cracking up!
He made it bleed. Saw him do it several different times. He had a nasty habit of wiping poop on the walls. One day he did it at my house and I told him he had to go home.
Walking him across the driveway to go home (you never let him be unaccompanied at any point) he did what I thought was picking his nose. Gross, but kid stuff.
Then right before we rang his mom’s doorbell, he pile-drove his elbow with his other hand, forcing the finger way up the nose and blood started spurting everywhere.
I almost had a heart attack.
Thankfully his mom knew that he did that and thankfully every square inch of their home was being recorded on video because of their behaviors.
Needless to say, I wasn’t sad when they moved.
They did it to protect the kid and others around him.
When I was 7 I could hurt somebody.
Assh8le.
If your precious little sunshine is out of control, can’t be restrained, and is a danger to himself and others, then I’d put him in handcuffs in a minute.
My wife works in a school. She’s seen how out of control some of these kids can get.
Oh really? And how do you handle a 7 year old who pays no attention to authority, is out of control, and who you can’t touch? (i.e. spank)?
You’re a big talker who hasn’t been confronted with such a situation.
You have no business working at a school then, dude.
Any of you ever watch To Sir With Love? You up the level of respect, set the bar high, challenge the status quo, not treat kids like inmates.
Those children were not bad. They had been badly abused and that is why they were in the system.
A seven year old kid with a sharp object can actually be a threat to someone’s life.
Also, where did you get the idea an out of control seven year old could be reasoned with, if they have gone full on postal?
Putting a kid like that in hand-cuffs is a very humane way to approach this problem.
Mom comes and the cuffs come off. No harm, no foul.
Three or four days later the kid’s attention span has moved him to the point he’ll hardly remember the cuffs.
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