5-Year-Old Arrested For Candy Outburst At School

ClickonDetroit ^ | March 18, 2005

[Sarajevo]

The 40-pound girl's hands were bound with plasic ties and her ankles in handcuffs.

Only in the "Land of the Free", where everyone is a criminal and subjetc to arrest

[~Vor~]

"It's time to issue tasers to teachers."

This article doesn't mention that this "child" also kicked and hit the police officers that were called in...my kid would have been thankful it was the police officers who carried her out and not me!...

[satan]

Maybe a special edition of "COPS - Arresting Children" would get the point across. (sarcasm)

[lotusblos]

"No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother, who said her daughter will not return."

The girl shouldn't have been there in the first place. If the parent(s) haven't taught the child to act appropriately by the time they're five, they should hold them back from school. No one wants to deal with an uncontrollable brat when they're obviously not ready to participate.

[bigsigh]

California pays Florida to keep it out of the news.

[A knight without armor]

My reaction is this is exactly the type of "mother" that would go to school and attack the teacher herself.

This kid is beyond a quick spank on the bottom. She needs to be removed from that violent prone home and helped. I hate to suggest removing her but it seems she is already on the way to major anti-social stuff.

[lepton]

hit an assistant principal in the stomach

I've been punched in the stomach by a prodigiously large 5 year old. It was somewhat less annoying than the "I'm not touching you" game, and only slightly more of a risk of damage.

[MaryFromMichigan]

This article doesn't mention that this "child"also kicked and hit the police officers that were called in...

Why the quotes?

[unixfox]

Excessive behavior needs excessive punishment. Maybe she'll remember what happens to bad kids next time they assault teachers.

You would make a nice German.

[lepton]

She was upset when a teacher took away jelly beans she was counting in a math exercise

Something sounds really strange here.

It sounds as though possession of the Jellybeans was sanctioned, but that somewhere along the way the rules changed.

[JusPasenThru]

A good thorough pistol-whipping would have settled her down.

[harpo11]

bigsigh, seriously, that's the most logical explanation I've heard.

Actually, that is really great thinking on your part. Being from California, I understand the need to stay out of the news.

[jocon307]

"...a special edition of "COPS - Arresting Children"

LOL, good idea. They could run it as a "back to school" special!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

However, a quick spank on the bottom might have solved the 'tantrum' issue.

And gotten the teacher arrested. The way things are teachers can not lay a hand on the little angels with out fearing a lawsuit.

So now the police are being called in every time a child goes out of control.

Stupid isn't it.

[JLS]

the girl went home with her mother, who said her daughter will not return. In her words, "They set my baby up."
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Yet there is the likely problem right in that quote. This poor child has a childish, likely racist mother who says things like this rather than deal with the problem her child clearly has. And that problem is likely no parenting.

Her child threw a tantrum, should not have been arrested but should have been disciplined by first the school and then when she arrived on the scene her parent.

[over3Owithabrain]

I said the same thing is post 18 but more bluntly and got the zot :)

[lepton]

The girl shouldn't have been there in the first place. If the parent(s) haven't taught the child to act appropriately by the time they're five, they should hold them back from school. No one wants to deal with an uncontrollable brat when they're obviously not ready to participate.

There's an awfull lot of logic leaps for such a sketchy article. The article pretty directly states that the little girl WAS participating, and that for some unstated reason, the conditions changed and she became upset and lashed out. One could as easily infer from the article that the little girl WAS participating, and the teacher baited her - or that the exercise was over and the girl wanted to keep going - or that the girl was doing something like eating them.

One could think up quite a few scenerios where the girl might have been responding in a relatively normal - albeit assertive - way, and others in which she was completely heinous. The article doesn't discuss the trigger for the event in any detail.

[Vision]

Can anyone out there tell me what the heck is going on in the State of Florida?

Yes, the warm weather and beaches attracted hoards of NY'ers.

[JLS]

Good to see there are others more blunt than me. Send me a freepmail with what you said, if you wish.

[MaryFromMichigan]

She was upset when a teacher took away jelly beans she was counting in a math exercise...

The teacher was wrong to "give" candy to a five year old and then take it back.
Most experienced and competent teachers would have either used something else for counting or let the kids keep the treats.
If she had handled the situation differently, she could have avoided the whole mess.
She also needs to learn how to handle temper tantrums. It comes with the territory.