School Principal In Trouble After Having 5-Year-Old Handcuffed

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[camle]

now if the tyke had a pair of scissors, THEN principal would get a medal

[Rifleman]

When I was about four, my Mom caught me with a red plastic truck that I had stolen from the 5 'n dime. She stopped the Chief of Police (a small town, he was patrolling the Square) and ratted me out. Chief Stanley Malone put me in the back of his car and had his handcuffs out when he just happened to mention that if I took the truck back and apologized to the store manager he could let me go...this time.

I took the deal.

I suspect that the kid needs a daddy to beat his butt and require him to behave. It sounds as if his mother is no help at all.

[MD_Willington_1976]

"They put handcuffs on my baby," Rucker said. "That's for adults who murder and kill. He's 5. He's in kindergarten."

Well if her baby stays on the path ahead...One day the baby will be one of the "adults who murder and kill". Plus that statement is quite ignorant, murdering and killing have the same outcome, dead people..redundant don't you think.

[camle]

vapid is a word the mother seems to evoke

[Ciexyz]

I smell lawyers in the wing.

[nothingnew]

5 year old...unruly...hitting people...handcuffs...

I've done more than that to unruly brats. Guess they outlawed the paddle in that district.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Hildy]

It's nice to read the whole article before posting:

The University of Missouri-St. Louis announced in August that it would end its sponsorship of the charter school, meaning the school must find a new sponsor by June or close. The university placed the school on probation twice, citing fiscal mismanagement, board corruption, poor academic performance and high turnover in leadership -- seven principals in five years.

Looks like someone else should be in handcuffs.

[netmilsmom]

Charter Schools are tough, but let me tell you, the discipline is being challenged in court all the time.
My daughter attended a Charter that had been sued by the parents of a boy who was he!! on wheels. When he pushed this third Kindergarten teacher (literally pushed), the parents were told that this child could not come back. Not a single teacher could handle him.
They sued, screaming discrimination because they were Latino. The boy's family lost but it cost the school big money to fight it.

The next year, my daughter had a boy who was a disruption every day, violent to the point that he cut the web of another boy's hand (between the index finger and thumb) with safety scissors which required stitches and pushed another boy off the top of a slide.
When parents complained, they were told that the administration was working on it. In talking to the head of the PTC there, I found out that the real reason this boy was still there was because he was black and the mother had already threatened a lawsuit.

I say a prayer of thanks everyday that I can homeschool.

[Jeff Blogworthy]

What a bunch of lily-livered pantywaists we have in our society. The mother should be taking the initiative in disciplining the child. It did not escape my notice that the father in not even mentioned in the story.

Parents will not make their children behave, expecting the school to take care of it. Corporal punishment, however, is out of the question. I am sure the principal and teachers have explored many options with the child. When he uses a creative and possibly successful method of impressing the necessity of good behavior on him - the mother reprimands the school and further enables the child's self-destructive behavior.

The mother is right, handcuffs are for criminals and she is creating one.

This principal should be given a medal.

[the OlLine Rebel]

That's when parents didn't treat kids like the whole world revolves around *them*, and that they never hurt and they must get their wishes (a`la Dr Spock) - which, believe it or not, is a very bad and definitely selfish premise.

Now you notice every parent of every stripe says "not my kid" or "he was just...." instead of a) believing he did something wrong & b) punishing him for it.


Yup, it all goes back to Dr Spock.

[the OlLine Rebel]

"The boy's family lost but it cost the school big money to fight it."


All of this - even when the result is proper - would stop if we'd go back to...

LOSER PAYS ALL.

[MD_Willington_1976]

It just goes further to prove what I think in the first place, there are no real deterrents to crime anymore...I agree the ignorant woman in the story will probably create a sociopath in that child.

[netmilsmom]

I just did a Google Search and found that this school is run by the same Management Company as my daughter's school. ChandlerBeacon.

They are one of the companies that I would NEVER have my child attend. They are the cliche of a management company that is all for money.

Edison Schools had problems with this as well.

[paul51]

I gather the police don't have anything better to do either. To protect and serve. Maybe on the way around the block they stopped a few times to write some parking tickets so the kid got a real taste for the system.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Kid needs a serious spanking.

[SlayerOfBunnies]

Wait - I think I may have detected the real problem here...

"They put handcuffs on my baby," Rucker said. "That's for adults who murder and kill. He's 5. He's in kindergarten."

Yes. Yes - I think that may be it.

[Publius6961]

No one criticizes the current PC educational system more enthusiastically than I.
In this particular case my gut feeling is that someone other than that principal needs a slap upside the head.
The principals way of trying to impress the little darling is wise, tried and true.

Where is the problem exactly? Who file the complaint? A clueless welfare husbandless loser collecting in three different counties?

[Publius6961]

I found out that the real reason this boy was still there was because he was black and the mother had already threatened a lawsuit.

I'm really confused these days.
White parents are not allowed to file lawsuits? In this case, would the school rather have 5 lawsuits or one?

Sounds like parents have solid grounds to argue that their children are not being physically protected adequately.

[Publius6961]

You really think these losers read Dr. Spock?
Wait. The administrators probably do.

Never mind.