“I was surprised how many people thought the school and police acted properly in this case.”
Have you read the incident report at post 149? How would you have handled the situation, other than by calling the police, knowing that you are not allowed to impart physical discipline?
The incident report was helpful to learn more about the circumstances.
So the little girl was taken to the principal’s office after she had pushed two other students and threw things off of the teacher’s desk per the report.
Later in the report it says that the officer attempted to call the child’s mother six times, and the school had also tried to contact her as well. Where was the mother??? Because the officer got no answer, his/her only choice left was to restrain the child so that s/he could transport the child back to a safe place (safe for everyone involved). It would have been wrong to keep the child at school under the circumstances.
Would others here be happier if they had called the paramedics or a psych unit? To me that is the only other possible safe option, given the circumstances. The child was not responding well to the usual measures that were taken already. What else was the school to do?