Posted on 01/25/2008 5:28:47 AM PST by fweingart
The parent was on the way, but sent the babysitter (who was closer) as her agent. They had not called the mother until after handcuffing the kid and deciding to send him off to the psych ward. The babysitter regularly picked up the child and yet they wouldn’t release the kid to the babysitter or wait for the parent to take custody....yet the kid was not dangerous enough to leave handcuffed on the way to the psych ward. It doesn’t add up.
Plus, see 105.
And there are legitimate legal procedures in place for such things, to provide citizens protection from arbitrary State power and abuse.
But at the muzzle of a gun, we are forced to pay taxes to support a school system that can arbitrarily decide by fiat that a kid needs to go to the psych ward over the parent? Yikes...what a system. Have FReepers gone so far left as to really support such an idea?
I’ll chip in my big money too...
Sorry, but logic doesn’t back up your support for the police state. Your claim that the problem here is that the authorities are handcuffed doesn’t hold water when they refused the request—it showed that they CHOSE to keep the child.
The did not choose to KEEP the child -- they did a sensible thing --rather than sending back to a home where it appears he was not getting proper discipline, they sent to a psycho ward to see if he was dangerous, and should be kicked the hell out of school before he hurt or killed someone -- then they would get sued for damned sure.
I missed the part about following an appropriate procedure to obtain an evaluation from the psych ward.
Or, the part about “we didn’t have the chance to do so, because this was the first time this happened.”
Or, the kid was so dangerous, we had to keep him in handcuffs.
Yeah -- and that is a helluva big part of the problem.
No — just the sign of a brat that needs a good butt-bustin’.
They got law enforcement involved?
*barf*
Yep,
Me ADD,
Sibling & Father Ring of Fire ADHD.
I believe the fadda probably did his walking with his feet.
Read it again. You probably missed something.
Considering that this is quite an unusual case, and seeing as how there are, as you say, "legitimate legal procedures in place," I'd say that you've engaged in a bit of hyperbolic excess with this comment.
The folks at this school may well have screwed the pooch. Or not: as is apparently ALWAYS the case with stories like this, the real facts are probably not being reported.
Will you just shut up about the beatings? We got your point the first time -- and it was idiotic then, too.
by requiring a psychological evaluation.
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Would a private school be able to haul a child off to a hospital (in handcuffs) for a psychological evaluation?
I doubt it!
So?....If a private principal could not do this, then why should a government employee of a government school?
Government schools should be held to the same standards of behavior as those in the private sector.
Solution: Abolish government schools. Privatize universal K-12 education.
Question: If you were a police officer with a pair of handcuffs, and you knew that it you grabbed hold of the brat, you might accidentally break one of his fingers, or make him cry and "traumaitze" him (whatever the hell that mens), what would you do? -- handcuff the snot or take a chance on getting sued or fired, and let his angry mommy ruin your life for you?
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Exactly!
I doubt that a private school could get away with treating a child like this.
Solution: Get rid of the government schools. We need a completely private system of K-12 education.
The NYPD, which oversees school safety agents, also declined to discuss specifics. Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said, "We hope common sense would prevail and we are looking at what happened."
Twas NOT a cop that handcuffed this child and from the article I see they have not expressed support of the action. Seems to me there are methods of handling a five year old kindergartener short of handcuffs and the padded wagon.
you people seem to be missing a lot of thing — mainly, what do YOU do with a brat on a rampage in a school full of toddlers — and you know damned well tht if you lay a finger on the little angel, his parents will sue you butt off????
You cn bet on it -- they'd toss his little butt out and tell his parents to go somewhere else.
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