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5-Year-Old Arrested For Candy Outburst At School
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| 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
"They set my baby up."
Typical...someone else's fault that this child has such an outburst....OVER FREAKING CANDY!!!!!
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:42:54 AM PST
by
4everontheRight
( "I'm learning to dread one day at a time" --- Charlie Brown)
To: ShadowDancer
Good Grief! Arresting 5 yr olds....STOP The INSANITY!
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:45:56 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: ShadowDancer
Arresting the child was ridiculous.
However, a quick spank on the bottom might have solved the 'tantrum' issue.
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:47:58 AM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: nuconvert
Teachers and school officials are not allowed to do anything themselves. That's why this is becoming a frequent occurrence.
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:49:39 AM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
To: 4everontheRight
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.
Excessive behavior needs excessive punishment. Maybe she'll remember what happens to bad kids next time they assault teachers.
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:49:50 AM PST
by
Dallas59
("F--- Saddam. Were taking him out." -- George Bush, March 2002)
To: Happygal
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:50:15 AM PST
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: 4everontheRight
Typical...someone else's fault that this child has such an outburst....OVER FREAKING CANDY!!!!!Why not? This is the public school system, after all.
And this is Florida where they put comatose patients to death by starvation. The little girl is lucky she is not being charged as an adult for assault. :-)
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:51:05 AM PST
by
Racehorse
(Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: Happygal
Arresting the child was ridiculous. No, arresting the child was NOT rediculous. Schools and teachers (and the other innocent 5 year olds stuck watching this) have no other options open to them.
Imagine what this kid will be like in middle or high school!
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posted on
03/19/2005 7:54:42 AM PST
by
LibertyThug
("Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." -Twain)
To: ShadowDancer
Was this the child of ex-Washington DC Mayor Marion Berry by chance?
To: gopwinsin04
"B**ch set my baby up...."
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posted on
03/19/2005 8:00:21 AM PST
by
NRA1995
("Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan & Ah think yer gonna fin'lly understand")
To: Happygal
The teacher set me up during recess!
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To: NRA1995
To: ShadowDancer
Can anyone out there tell me what the heck is going on in the State of Florida?
We have teachers having sex with underage students.
We had Elian Gonzalez snatched by Clinton's jackbooted thugs and sent to Castro's hell hole.
We have a judge who is hell bent on killing tortuously Terry Schiavo by removing her feeding tube.
We have environmentalists freaking over saving the turtles annual mating season and egg laying by making it unlawful for residents along their mating grounds use outdoor or even indoor lighting March through October.
We have Palm Beach Voters who really voted for Gore but couldn't tell if Gore's name was Buchannan's.
Now I wake up this fine Saturday and find out school teachers have arrested a five year old for having a candy hissy fit.
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posted on
03/19/2005 8:06:14 AM PST
by
harpo11
(Congress We Need More Steroid in the War on Terror. Let Baseball worry about Baseball.)
To: gopwinsin04
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posted on
03/19/2005 8:08:15 AM PST
by
NRA1995
("Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan & Ah think yer gonna fin'lly understand")
To: ShadowDancer
The 40-pound girl's hands were bound with plasic ties and her ankles in handcuffs.
All this for a 5 year old's temper tantrum.
Sad.
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posted on
03/19/2005 8:08:48 AM PST
by
MaryFromMichigan
(We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
Comment #18 Removed by Moderator
To: ShadowDancer
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 It's time to issue tasers to teachers.
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posted on
03/19/2005 8:10:59 AM PST
by
LoneRangerMassachusetts
(Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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posted on
03/19/2005 8:11:37 AM PST
by
freepatriot32
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