Does he look worried to you? Is he crying? Nope. He just looks like your typical sociopath. And he is HUGE for 7 years old.
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Munchausen mommy?
I seriously doubt this was the child’s first act of aggression
I suspect it’s because of how he was raised.
Kids shouldn’t hit teachers.
Not a new concept. And, for various reasons, a fair number of children these days are actually crazy and dangerous. It’s a fact. Ignoring possible facts is a bad idea.
That said, I dislike government run schools. I’d prefer private schools.
I’d be curious what the psych exam determined. Sounds like a troubled young man with an enabling mom.
My kid is going nuts and being arrested...let me break out my camera?
I had a teacher or two who deserved having their faces knocked in.
Like Mr McAndrew at Port Jervis highschool.
That smarmy garden slug with a bad combover was a loudmouth antagonistic POS who would decide at the start of the year if you would pass his class, and he said so.
Loudly.
On the first day of school.
If a teacher isn't legally allowed to hit a child even after being assaulted by him, then you're damn right the kid should be dragged away in handcuffs ... preferably with his elbows cuffed together behind him.
If the lady thinks this is wrong, then she should contact her State Representative.
Does he look worried to you? Is he crying? Nope. He just looks like your typical sociopath. And he is HUGE for 7 years old.
Reason: School have no way to punish kids anymore. Corporal punishment is out. The PC crowd have outlawed out-of-school suspension as racist. In-school suspension is useless because the kid can still act out in school.
Article says the kid has acted out before, continued kicking and punching after he was restrained, knocked the teacher down. The big shock for me was not the handcuffs it was hearing every word from the Mom in Spanish and seeing a 7 year old with a gangsta haircut.
How are the schools supposed to cope with kids who are supported for acting out in school? How are the other kids supposed to learn? Now Mom is looking into suing to get her payday. All I could thing was go back to where you come from. No more bilingual America.
I never saw a student try to punch a teacher when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. Even in high school!
I’m sure the mother does not model respect for authority in front of her son.
Plus, that look on the kid’s face is bone-chillingly similar to that of Damien in The Omen. This kid will go on to much bigger things in crime and brutality.
Where is the father?
Still, it's extreme to haul the kid away in cuffs, but it might be the only way to prevent him from going ballistic and hurting himself and/or others.
A couple other posters hinted at that. I think Munchhausen might apply to behaviorism as well as physical maladies.
When I was in 5th grade, I witnessed a “student” try to stab an elderly teacher with a pencil.
Another teacher escorted her out of the room, never to be seen again. No doubt she ended up in reform school.
Now he has street cred.
Seeing the kid’s attitude, the cops did the right thing.