[tioga]

My kids went to public schools and I had my share of problems...and they eventually learned that I was right, but they made the whole situation an adversarial one. The school administration are not the parent.

They attempted to commit a five year old. There are alternate schools for children with behavioral problems with a better adult child ratio. With my history, I can easily believe the school administration lost it in a power struggle with the mom. The mom may well be resisting the idea that her son was having problems.........but to be unable to deal with a five year old having a temper tantrum is outrageous. I cannot fathom a kindergartner being handcuffed and taken away by the men in little white coats to the funny farm. It is unreal.

As to calling this violent....this is not a 200lb middleschooler.....this is a kindergartener.

[Surtur]

violence
c.1290, "physical force used to inflict injury or damage," from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. violence, from L. violentia "vehemence, impetuosity," from violentus "vehement, forcible," probably related to violare (see violate). Weakened sense of "improper treatment" is attested from 1596. Violent is attested from c.1340. In M.E. the word also was applied in ref. to heat, sunlight, smoke, etc., with the sense "having some quality so strongly as to produce a powerful effect."

The above definition of violence plainly says that the child's actions of breaking a door glass and knocking stuff off of the principal's desk were violence because those actions resulted in damage. Obviously, one doesn't need to be a 200 pounder to be violent.

[wideawake]

this is a kindergartener.

The kid is supposedly 5 years old, even though he is as tall and heavy as a ten year old.