Posted on 01/28/2018 11:51:32 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Moment distraught mom of a seven-year-boy films her son being cuffed by police and then taken for a psychiatric evaluation after school officials say he 'punched a teacher'
A Miami mother of a seven-year-old boy expressed outrage on Saturday when she saw her son handcuffed by police after he is said to have hit his teacher and then taken to a mental institution.
Mercy Alvarez was in tears as she saw her son leave the principal’s office at the Coral Way K-8 Center in Miami escorted by a police officer on Thursday.
The officer handcuffed the boy after school officials said he was acting up.
The incident was reported by the Miami Herald.
Alvarez has permitted the media to show her son's face. She has also stated her desire for the media to disseminate the distressing footage of her son being led away in handcuffs.
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see my post 16 and tell me if you agree
More than that watch the video! Bet his family needs deported.
I’m thinking of the old Richard Pryor routine about the guy he met in prison who was doing “Triple Life”....
“How the .... do you do triple life? That mean if he die and come back, he gotta goto the penitentiary, like, F’ kindergarten, you gotta go to the penitentiary, you know what you did last time.”
Reason: School have no way to punish kids anymore. Corporal punishment is out. The PC crowd have outlawed out-of-school suspension as racist. In-school suspension is useless because the kid can still act out in school.
Article says the kid has acted out before, continued kicking and punching after he was restrained, knocked the teacher down. The big shock for me was not the handcuffs it was hearing every word from the Mom in Spanish and seeing a 7 year old with a gangsta haircut.
How are the schools supposed to cope with kids who are supported for acting out in school? How are the other kids supposed to learn? Now Mom is looking into suing to get her payday. All I could thing was go back to where you come from. No more bilingual America.
Unlike PS [who must take *everyone*, regardless], private schools can pick and choose who they want to grace their halls.
Administrators in PS are few and far between, who will stand up to the parents who have never disciplined their children; or taught them normal civil behavior.
“He just looks like your typical sociopath. And he is HUGE for 7 years old.”
He is seven years old.
There is no reason to handcuff him and send him off to a mental institution.
Instad, the school should have done their job and handled the situation by discipline such as a suspension and further evaluation by a mental health professional.
That is no teacher. He is a liberal wannabe.
We learned that in public school. :)
That’s no 7-yo
The school officials and police are constrained by state law. If their description of the child’s behavior is accurate, they had no option under the law but to act as they did.
The mother can fuss on Facebook all she wants, but the only real recourse is to change the state law. I assume the state law exists because of a consensus that it is the best way to protect staff and unoffending students from physical attacks.
"First day of Catholic school, I go in and the nuns got some guy nailed to a tree!
I didn't step outta line for 8 yrs!".
“...seeing a 7 year old with a gangsta haircut.”
What the heck is a ‘gangsta haircut?”
Is there some kind of official handbook the outlines gangsta haircuts that you have read recently?
In the hallway, he then saw his teacher and ‘attacked the teacher by repeatedly punching her on her back,’ according to a school district spokesperson.Looking at the hardened eyes of this kid, somewhere, sometime in the next decade, he will be occupying a prison cell.... or a cemetery plot.
Even after the boy was restrained, he continued to throw punches and kicks, police said. Both the boy and the person restraining him fell on the floor. Nonetheless, police said he continued to fight.
Police said the boy knocked the teacher to the ground.
The teacher who was attacked is planning to press charges against the child.
I never saw a student try to punch a teacher when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. Even in high school!
I’m sure the mother does not model respect for authority in front of her son.
Plus, that look on the kid’s face is bone-chillingly similar to that of Damien in The Omen. This kid will go on to much bigger things in crime and brutality.
Where is the father?
Me too.
The mom should concentrate more on her poor parenting skills.
Jackie Calzadilla, a spokesperson for the school district, said that the boy ‘began behaving erratically and hit a teacher.
‘Due to a great concern for the student and to ensure his safety and that of those around him, he was restricted according to the Baker Act and transported to the hospital to be evaluated.’
According to police, the child was supposedly playing with his food in the cafeteria, prompting teachers to remove him.
In the hallway, he then saw his teacher and ‘attacked the teacher by repeatedly punching her on her back,’ according to a school district spokesperson.
Even after the boy was restrained, he continued to throw punches and kicks, police said.
Both the boy and the person restraining him fell on the floor. Nonetheless, police said he continued to fight.
Police said the boy knocked the teacher to the ground.
The teacher who was attacked is planning to press charges against the child.
The boy has had a history of disciplinary problems.
Last November, he was suspended for 10 days after he threw a tantrum, according to school officials.
Still, it's extreme to haul the kid away in cuffs, but it might be the only way to prevent him from going ballistic and hurting himself and/or others.
A couple other posters hinted at that. I think Munchhausen might apply to behaviorism as well as physical maladies.
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