[camle]

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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[vpintheak]

Why do I think that things would be diffierent if Aroni had a husband and the boy had a decent father? My kids would have their butts in a sling if they were to act a little like this, I wouldn't even dream of pressing charges or sueing. Of course I don't think everything is always somebody else's fault.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

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

[PAR35]

Thurgood Marshall Academy

[Happygal]

This reminds me of a friend of mine, who is a member of my Light Opera Society.

A couple of years ago there were kids in a show they were doing, and my friend Brian (who was in his mid-20's at the time), was having trouble keeping one of them (a spoiled brat) under control.

So Brian handcuffed him to a table in one of the LX rooms, so he'd have peace of mind while having a cup of tea.

Except...he forgot about the kid.
He only realised at the end of the show, during the bows, that the kid wasn't on stage.

He found the brat, blubbering, where he'd left him.

Brian bought him off with chocolate. And his parents, didn't complain.

The kid was well mannered for the rest of the run, though.