[billorites]

Lucky she wasn't Tasered.

[tallhappy]

Wasn't it better in the old days when she just could have been spanked, cried it off and gone back to class having learned a lesson -- don't act like that or you'll get a whuppin.

[Disambiguator]

Well, at least the kid wasn't armed with a gun.

[politicket]

Oh c'mon...she was just expressing her individuality! What's wrong with her destroying everything around her. She was born that way!

I think that it's high time that the schools stopped being bratophobic! The staff needs to undergo IMMEDIATE diversity training!

[MEGoody]

Parents don't want their kids spanked when they act like this, they need to shut up when the cops come and haul the kid away.

[Grut]

It's not so much that the school's administrators are beyond shame as it is that they're beyond embarassment. Ye gods, bring back Old Sparky! There's no point in fooling around once a child starts to act childishly.

[Obadiah]

The kid was probably upset that she didn't get a trophy for showing up in class.

[Old Professer]

Ah, the joys of early intervention.

[Obadiah]

"They set my baby up."

What the ...? Is this mother any relation to Marion Barry?

[GovernmentShrinker]

The district's campus police should have been called to help and not local police, he said. Bessette said campus police routinely deal with children and are trained to calm them in such situations.

One would like to think that the district's kindergarten teachers were trained to calm tantrum-throwing 5-year-olds.

[Terriergal]

"They set my baby up."

Ay, there's the problem. The mom.

[Buck W.]

" "We never want to have 5-year-old children arrested," said Michael Bessette, the district's Area III superintendent."

That's a candidate for Quote of the Day.

[rave123]

So they can cuff kids but not criminals? reference to Atlanta

[nmh]

Oh, oh self esteem training gone haywire!

Expect to hear more about this. Kids are NOT being disciplines and many are OUT OF CONTROL even at this tender age.

[gidget7]

Outrageous!! More and more schools demonstrate the lowering of value placed on children.

[andyk]

Her hands were bound with plastic ties, her ankles in handcuffs

You've gotta be freaking kidding me. How on earth do you let a five year old girl punch you in the stomach?

[doc30]

Comment on the Obvious: This is what happens when the authority of teachers over student discipline is removed. Can't spank, so then it must become a law enforcement issue. Arrest and charge the little children for child-like behavior. Next thing, they'll be charged as adults and sent to jail as punishment.

[SuziQ]

So what was her parents' reaction to the child's actions? I'm afraid that if this had been my child, she would have not been able to sit down for a week! THEN, after getting her attention, I would have taught her how cows eat cabbage, and how she was expected to behave!

[Grammy]

When my second grader (in a flamingly liberal school that wouldn't touch him and he knew it) acted up like this (though not quite this rotten, or I would have killed him) I showed up in the principal's office and broke a wooden spoon on his butt. He never did it again.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

Dey set ma baby up!