Posted on 08/31/2004 4:09:27 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
It sounded to me like the basketball playing was going on outside (the kid was told to go "back to class") either during a recess period, or because the kids left class to play basketball. You can't tell from the article.
I have watched grade-school basketball games at my child's school, and kids hit each other with balls. They've already banned dodgeball, what's next? Banning basketball?
I think the mother should sue the school; they sound wacko and incapable of administering effective discipline, as well as potential lawbreakers.
You have to wonder what the police are smoking, too, that they would actually arrest an 8-year-old for the "crime" of crying at school. When one of my kids gets overwrought and won't stop crying, I put them to bed.
"The school administration should have told his mother to take him home until he calmed down."
Yeah, except his mom had to go back to work. I expect his mom probably agreed to threaten him with calling the police. She was probably surprised when they actually did though. Lots of stupidity to go around here. School administrators must be just about the stupidest people on earth.
With that criteria....most Dems should be cuffed & arrested.
LOL - but it's interesting the leftist protestors are getting a pass from the authorities, while an upset 3rd grader goes to jail. I realize they're in totally different places, but still ... I think there's a deep-rooted societal problem that's producing all of this.
Your parents are too p*ssy-whipped to stand up for their own flesh and blood - it's up to you do shut down the depraved public schools.
Disrespect Wrongful Authority! Shut the schools down!
You're right. That kid and many others just learned that the school administrators and their local police haven't the tiniest bit of common sense, intelligence or good judgement.
They also learned that the tiniest non-crime will be wildly overreacted to, and those responsible can break the law, threaten children, lie about it and completely get away with it.
So?
He's bigger than some of the women teachers.
Sorry, you forgot to add an[/sarcasm] tag at the end of your post. I know you must have meant to but it just slipped your mind, because no sensible person I've ever met could possibly truly believe that a grade school dust-up between elementary level students warrants the intervention of the police department...
My son, at age eight, had his nose broken (punched) by a 130 lb fifth grader because he wouldn't give him his potato chips.
It was a Catholic school, they handled it, but after the expensive ER visit, and replacing his $250.00 glasses, I did tell the school that we would prosecute if there were any more incidents involving that bully.
The bully was expelled, permanently.
Wow, that's awful. Glad your son is alright, and that the bully was expelled.
My children are all in elemtary school and have had the occasional run-in with a bully or two, but nothing like that!
I think if he would have been controllable after he smacked the other kid with a basketball things might have been different. I have a 9 year old boy who would not have behaved this way, he would have shown remorse for hurting the other kid, he would have sat down when told.
I think there is more to this story --- a kid with psychological problems whose mother probably refused to come get him from the school because she uses the school as a free babysitter.
Why on earth does the boy's father not seem to be involved with his own son ending up at the police station?
I don't know --- I don't know how big the town is or if they have juvenile facilities or if all those were filled. I don't know if the mother is known to cooperate with the school or if she's an idiot --- there is no mention of a father so maybe he's in prison himself, or maybe the mother got confused with her son's story and her latest boyfriend's story about how the police treated him.
If a kid goes nuts at the school and gets into an uncontrollable rage, I don't know what the school can do --- they can't spank or discipline the kid, they can only call the mother or father if there is one. A child that age could be big enough to hurt someone or hurt themselves and if you call the police and they can't get the kid to control himself --- what else can they do?
There isn't enough to this story to know for sure --- I wonder what the reactions to this were of the parent's whose little boy was hit by the other one --- this might have been some on-going bully situation with the mother encouraging her kid to be one.
My ex-husband was a police officer there. Juveniles are transported to Santa Fe. There is no way you would put a juvenile in a jail cell in the Espanola jail. The people in that jail are the worst of the worst when it comes to criminals.
But the police dept seems to be admitting they held this child in a jail cell, just not for how long.
I agree with you on Mom probably going along with the police threat.
thanks Sweet_Sunflower29 you just gave me a good current event article at school extra credit for me
Use a taser gun on him. They do that in some public schools in Florida, why not in New Mexico?
Your Master has spoken!
You Vill comply!
Resistance is futile!
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