Posted on 04/17/2012 7:22:38 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
Edited on 04/17/2012 8:23:20 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP)
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Assault charges would have been appropriate. Your principal did not do his/her job. That child had no business in the classroom with other children - OR your unborn child.
This shows alot of what is wrong with our system. The teacher should have been able to smack her butt when she started the tantrum and not let it get to the point where she was ripping things off walls. Instead the police are called to cuff her. Crazy.
“tearing items off the walls and throwing furniture”
Temper tantrum? Wonder what she does at home?
“tearing items off the walls and throwing furniture”
Temper tantrum? Wonder what she does at home?
I never said the “tantrum” happened in a classroom. In any case, it this destruction of property somehow excusable if it occurred in the principal’s office rather than in a classroom?
Yeah, You’re over reacting.
“Put them someplace where they can’t break anything or hurt themselves, such as a corner...”
They do that. It’s called a time out room. But as you would expect; parents and others object to that “solitary confinement, isolationism and torture.” And if you don’t think a child can and will hurt themselves even while alone and in a rage, then you don’t know the state of feral youths in our schools today.
Cuffing the child is the safest and best route. And if the parents do not remove the kid from school immediately - take the kid to the police stateion.
“OMG. This really is racism.”
Are you even reading the same article as the rest of us???
Imagine if you had a little six year old daughter in that classroom. Would you want her in the same classroom where furniture was being thrown around? Would you want her sitting next to a child who is strong enough to throw furniture and injure the teacher?
The people on this thread who think the authorities over-reacted would never allow their own children to be endangered.
That would be my usually approach but I feel differently now. This may be the only discipline this child gets. She needs to learn now otherwise she will be in a cell one day and hopefully it not because she came after you or me with that rage.
At six years old she already over the line. And then complaining the handcuffs are tight with no regard for the teacher she injured and the destruction she caused - showing signs of she isn’t responsible for her actions.
And the disturbance in the classroom - I’m sure her classmates were frightened and lost their time with studies/whatever. Her actions affected many others and cost$. It is NOT all about her, same thing like those who support her are doing and she herself is doing. I will not call in w/support for her - NO WAY!! I won’t support my own kids with half the cr*p she pulled.
You're kidding right? Breaking the law is what gets people of any color thrown in jail. I taught my children this little FACT. Why didn't this little girl's parents teach her that? And now... Rather than use this incident as a teaching moment to teach this little girl that bad behavior is unacceptable she is instead being taught that the police are racist pigs and bad people. If I would have pulled this crap when I was a child my dad would have beat the s*** out of me for embarrassing him like that.
Shame on you race baiting pimps.
Just my humble opinion.
This is what the dad says from another source:
"A 6-year-old in kindergarten. They don't have no business calling the police and handcuffing my child," said Earnest Johnson, Salecia's father.
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/article/178448/175/Milledgeville-Police-Handcuff-6-Year-Old-Girl
“We all did?” Seriously? When I was in school I never saw a single kid tear things off the walls or throw furniture, and I KNOW I didn’t. My mother would have burned my rear end up so bad I’d have sat funny for weeks.
If Obama had a daughter, she’d be just like Salecia...
If you have a problem why don't you report it to the mods?
They didn’t tazer her 50 times? Wow, are they getting soft. sarc/
Am I for handcuffing and arresting 6 year olds? No, but this child was out of control and the school system, who has to worry about liability and lawsuits, has its hands tied in dealing with her. Given the circumstances what do you suggest they do? Remember teachers and administrators are not allowed to touch her so they can not restrain her.
BTW...my 6 year olds would never have behaved like this so it would not have been a question of what I would do if they had.
If they use the modern zip ties....you bet
I know from experience what a little kid can do.
I had to hold my 10 year old daughter down to allow a nurse to draw blood from my daughter; a necessary medical procedure. Basically, she won’t cooperate with any medical procedure that involves a needle, or cutting (in one case a very infected ingrown toenail), so I have had to do this before.
It took me AND two more nurses to get the job done without hurting her.
If the kid came through without being injured, or injuring anybody, I’m not going to criticize the cop. He did a good job. A six year old without any sense of restraint is capable of a remarkable amount of violence. While any grownup can stop the kid, doing so without hurting (i.e. leaving a mark) the kid is a challenge.
I hope her parents spanked her when she got home, but more likely they just thought “Cha-Ching!”
“’Put them someplace where they can’t break anything or hurt themselves, such as a corner...”\’
They do that. It’s called a time out room.”
Those have been (or are being) eliminated in Georgia schools, for the reasons you mentioned.
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