Man, I’ve been reading your posts for a lotta years.
Never seen this side of you.
So what would you do besides beg and plead for the little fatso to please do what you say?
Seriously, you must have some ideas.
We can’t touch them. They ignore you. So what do you do? Calling XYZ is no answer either because they ultimately face the same dilemma. So what does the final person you call actually do?
When people here talk about school officials stepping up to do their duty with unruly kids, what do you think they mean?
Should the girl be confronted when she took something she wasn’t supposed to, or should adults just smile and act as if nothing happened?
When she got angry and threw one milk on the floor, should the adults just shrug that off too, and allow her to get away with it?
Should the message to all the other children be that you can act out any way you want in the cafeteria, and nothing will happen to you?
Should they be shown that they can act out, ignore authority, and do just as they please, since the staff is powerless to do anything?
Today it was milk. Tomorrow it’s a full blown food fight as kids grab hand fulls of food and sling it across the room? Does that sound like the answer to this problem?
She got upset because people called her on taking something that wasn’t hers. Folks here tried to play that up. “Hey, it was only a milk.” No it was taking the milk, disregarding the cafeteria workers, other staff, the assistant-principle, the principle, and the school officer.
She was angry that the staff was not going to let it slide, so she called her mom to come get her. She may have done that from the admin office, or perhaps they just asked her to go there.
The staff tried to keep her in a controlled environment for everyone’s good, the staff, the student herself, and other students...
At what point was this child going to cross a line with you, where you think she should have been brought under control? How much disobedience do you think they should have tolerated before it became clear to the other students that this type of behavior would not be tolerated, or wind up with the kid doing exactly as she pleased, with no intervention?
The officer outside did not start off by trying to take her down. His language was intended to let her know she had crossed the line, and she needed to check herself.
Instead she ignored everyone his and everyone else’s direction and screamed that they were hurting her.
At no time did she show any inclination of complying with directives.
Outside she evaded the officer getting her under control. Her evasive maneuvers elicited a response which in turn caused her to come into contact with the wall and the ground. The office tried to hold onto her arm, but she resisted that too, and whined about it hurting.
I’m curious. How would you have gotten this child under control, so that she wouldn’t have hurt anyone else or herself?