Posted on 04/22/2005 11:55:08 AM PDT by Sertorius
The girl's teacher videotaped her class that day as a self-improvement exercise. An attorney calls the arrest "absurd" and "excessive."
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one of my alltime favorite books. Spooky how accurate he describes modern society.
There are times when even small children need to be retrained – to help prevent them from hurting themselves.
what would you do to keep someone else's child from having a tantrum?
We've got teachers who terrified of children. No - not really terrified of the child... terrified of the child's damn attorney.
This demonstrates a pretty useless de-escalation strategy.
When I was in school, I got swatted by a few different teachers growin up. I became a more useful student than this kid will become now that she knows she's in charge... at least until the cops arrive.
Probably correct. She might be ADD or somesuch.
I think the "terrifed of the attorney" statement says more for what the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND legislation DOESN'T provide to improve our schools---
No amount of money will help when the kids aren't disciplined at home, and they go to school and treat the teachers without any respect---5 years old is one thing, but unfortunately, the HIGH SCHOOL kids act this way, but the teachers are almost as afraid of getting shot, as sued.
There is no way that kids can learn when the environment is disrupted like this--
There was one poster that mentioned that the lawsuit should come from the parents of the OTHER children in the class that are not getting the time and energy of the teachers when they have to deal with this---I think you can multiply by 100 perhaps the atmosphere there is in some jr. and senior high school classes.
I think Laura Bush should take on the assignment of getting the schools the ability w/o threat of litigation, a way to keep these disruptions from happening---?????
You don't handcuff a five year old child...What the hell is wrong today...
That is plain wrong...
I was physically attacked by a 5 year old boy at a daycare because he got reprimanded and sent to the end of the line. My boss didn't believe me, he was sent to her office. Cupcakes were handed out that day for a birthday, too. He didn't get one because he was in her office. He proceeded to trash the place and attack her. The mom told me that I should be happy that he felt comfortable enough with me to do that. He trashed stuff at home too. I remember his name and expect to read about him in about 20 years by way of being a serial killer. He had some real problems, and the parents let it all happen.
I don't buy the line that the child is necessarily disturbed or undisciplined at home or any different than any other child who will test authority and have tantrums. This isn't a problem of NCLB or lack of funding, but rather, impotent child behavior psychology coupled with fear of lawyers. Any of us might have tried this tantrum as a child, the only difference is when we were kids, the tantrum would have been allowed to go on about 30 seconds. With management techniques where the teachers are essentially the ones who are handcuffed, any kid would figure out they can get away with this behavior.
I'd give the teachers handcuffs. :~D
All kids are ADD now, we should just start drugging all of them at birth < /sarcasm>
Exactly---I feel the same way!
They didn't use perrer spray, or a taser. They RESTRAINED her. Be reasonable!
She was sitting when the police came... At that point they did not need to cuff her... Anyway... You should never cuff a child... Bullshit... No way...
Thank you...
You be reasonable...
I think this might be the best thing to happen to this child. Scare her when she's young or else she's gonna be very used to those handcuffs when she gets older.
We must medicate all the children and sedate them!!! They want to be sedated!!!
(sarcasm ad extremis)
wow
This child slapped her teacher across the face, and punched the assistant principle in the stomach. She difinitely deserved to be restrained whether by handcuffs, or wrapped up in a restraining hug/hold.
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