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8-year-old arrested after alleged trantrum(sic)
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 3/4/05 | AP

Posted on 03/04/2005 8:50:54 AM PST by NormsRevenge

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - Police arrested an 8-year-old boy who allegedly had a violent outburst in school, head-butting his teacher and kicking an assistant principal, when he was told he couldn't go outside to play with other students.

The 4-foot pupil was led away from Rawls Byrd Elementary School in handcuffs Tuesday and charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery. "It's not something that happens every day," Maj. Stan Stout said of what could be the department's youngest arrest ever.

Stout said the chair-tossing, desk-turning outburst occurred after a teacher, and later the assistant principal, attempted to stop the boy from joining his classmates.

The child was later released to his parents.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Virginia; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: after; alleged; arrested; discipline; education; tantrum; trantrum
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To: af_vet_rr

You are right on all counts IMHO.


41 posted on 03/04/2005 9:13:30 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Mears

He will be stealing cars in 6-7 years. And when he gets offed after almost running over policemen, the news will revert back to his picture as an 8 year old to gather sympathy and hatred to cops.


42 posted on 03/04/2005 9:14:15 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: whereasandsoforth

A good ear popping whack side of the head would have stopped the little tyrant.


43 posted on 03/04/2005 9:17:31 AM PST by cynicom (<p)
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To: NormsRevenge

Look on the bright side. Now the parents know they have a problem, they can take the kid on Dr. Phil. ;)


44 posted on 03/04/2005 9:18:45 AM PST by wiltale
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To: Virginia Queen
I smell a lawsuit coming.

Nah, I doubt the school, the teacher, or the police will sue the parents.

They should, but they won't.

45 posted on 03/04/2005 9:19:15 AM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: whereasandsoforth

I would have gotten paddled by the teacher until I couldn't sit down, and again at home by my father.


46 posted on 03/04/2005 9:21:01 AM PST by fredhead ("It is a good thing war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." General Robert E. Lee)
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To: NormsRevenge

Man, if I would have don't that in school back in the 60's, I know what would have been waiting for me when I got home. I'll give you a clue....It wouldn't be a lawsuit!


47 posted on 03/04/2005 9:22:32 AM PST by JarheadFromFlorida (Ooorahhhh........Get Some! Semper Fi')
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To: whereasandsoforth
Can any of you older freepers imagine what the reaction would have been if you had acted this way in school when you were eight?

I would have been spanked by my teacher, my principle, and by my mother when I got home. I would have lost my allowance and television privileges. I can remember as a senior in high school being told, “You may be a foot taller than me, but you have to sleep sometime.” I joined the Navy out of high school and went to Viet Nam to have a less disciplined life.

48 posted on 03/04/2005 9:25:50 AM PST by ORECON (The FAA (Fanatics Anonymous Association) provides 12-step therapy for your obsession.)
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To: Jeff Head

I think every coach had one of those whoppers. I think the coaches honed their fine skills in the woodshop after hours.


49 posted on 03/04/2005 9:25:59 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: NormsRevenge

This child WILL be diagnosed with a plethora of disabilities, from ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) to ADD to ADHD which will transform him into a Special Education student. As such, the school cannot get rid of him and will be forced, courtesy of Special Ed lawyers hired by the parents, to accommodate his 'disabilities' with special classrooms, shadow aides, easier coursework, psychiatric assessments, etc.


50 posted on 03/04/2005 9:28:26 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Jeff Head; stainlessbanner
In our household, there was the "board of correction." It had the holes drilled for that splendid "waffle-effect."

Dad was also quite proficient with the leather belt....Indiana Jones and his whip had nothing on him.

51 posted on 03/04/2005 9:29:20 AM PST by Joe 6-pack ("It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.")
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To: NormsRevenge

Wait, wait; don't tell me! Kid's parents voted for Kerry, right?


52 posted on 03/04/2005 9:29:27 AM PST by pabianice
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To: stainlessbanner

...I think the coaches honed their fine skills in the woodshop after hours....


On each other?


53 posted on 03/04/2005 9:31:17 AM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: NormsRevenge
A very good friend - no wimp, an ex-Navy Chief - was doing substitute teacher duty when one of his little charges had a similar tantrum. The guidance then was to wrap them in your arms until they calmed so they wouldn't hurt themselves or anyone else thrashing.

One kick from a small foot sent Jim to hernia surgery. The guidance was modified.

54 posted on 03/04/2005 9:35:28 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Joe 6-pack
Yep...my Dad used the belt...still remember that sucker popping through the loops as it was "drawn".

He did it for effect...I don't remember him being truly angry. But he schooled us in the finer arts of acceptable and good behavior through discipline and tough love.

Now, over a year after his passing, I find myself reminiscing on the wisdom of his upbringing and missing our conversation as adults and his always sound advise as we spoke of my own adult kids and their children...my grandchildren and his great grand children.

Somehow, we need to get those days back...to get that discipline, tough (true) love back into our society and do away with all of the liberal, mushy minded gobbledigook that has infected our society.

I believe we have a window of opportunity yet to get it back...but fear that a calamity of monstorous proportions awaits us as a self correction if we do not. You would have thought 911 was enough....but apparently not.

55 posted on 03/04/2005 9:35:46 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: NormsRevenge

the story does not say why he was not allowed to go out and join his classmates...whats the whole story here...I think I would be mad if the rest of the class got to go out but I had to stay as this story implies!


56 posted on 03/04/2005 9:36:23 AM PST by jrd
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To: NormsRevenge

How many here would have been arrested or suspended when they were in school, going by today's standards? I would have.


57 posted on 03/04/2005 9:38:02 AM PST by imskylark
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To: Jeff Head

Principal at my high school used a size 15 tennis shoe.


58 posted on 03/04/2005 9:38:12 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: NormsRevenge

It's a miracle they didn't taser him. That seems to be the fashion these days concerning children. Poor child.


60 posted on 03/04/2005 9:40:06 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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