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5-Year-Old Arrested For Candy Outburst At School
ClickonDetroit ^ | March 18, 2005

Posted on 03/19/2005 7:40:47 AM PST by ShadowDancer

5-Year-Old Arrested For Candy Outburst At School

POSTED: 12:52 pm EST March 18, 2005

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Florida school officials are apologizing for the arrest of a 5-year-old, whose tantrum landed her in the back of a police cruiser.

Officials said the girl threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls. She was upset when a teacher took away jelly beans she was counting in a math exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary School.

Minutes later, she was under arrest for battery. The 40-pound girl's hands were bound with plasic ties and her ankles in handcuffs.

A school superintendent said campus police should have been called. He said school officials "never want to have 5-year-old children arrested."

No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother, who said her daughter will not return. In her words, "They set my baby up."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; discipline; donutwatch; govwatch; students; zerotolerance
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To: ShadowDancer

If an EQ is a good assessment for a child's future this young lady has a bleak outlook.


141 posted on 04/24/2005 7:21:32 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: miamiman

LOL!!! A southern accent or a New Yawk accent?


142 posted on 04/24/2005 7:26:04 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (Texas Cowboy...you da man!!)
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