You would make a nice German.
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."
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
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!...
Maybe a special edition of "COPS - Arresting Children" would get the point across. (sarcasm)
"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.
California pays Florida to keep it out of the news.
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.
You would make a nice German.
Something sounds really strange here.
It sounds as though possession of the Jellybeans was sanctioned, but that somewhere along the way the rules changed.
A good thorough pistol-whipping would have settled her down.
Actually, that is really great thinking on your part. Being from California, I understand the need to stay out of the news.
"...a special edition of "COPS - Arresting Children"
LOL, good idea. They could run it as a "back to school" special!
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.
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.
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.
Good to see there are others more blunt than me. Send me a freepmail with what you said, if you wish.
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