Posted on 04/17/2012 7:22:38 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
Edited on 04/17/2012 8:23:20 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I'm with you. Even the Chief of Police ‘defended the action’, according to the reports.
Too bizarre otherwise methinks.
If you'd ask me this question 15 or 20 years ago, I'd probably have said no. Today however, my answer is YES! This country is in a moral morass with deep decay in societal/public behavior. To turn this around will require severe "tough love" approaches. Perhaps the parents of these children will awaken to the severity of the problem after having to pick their child up from police custody and go through the court system.
BTW, I am a School Psychologist. In the past 15 years I've witnessed situations that would make the average person in this country drop their jaw in amazement. Behaviors are getting worse, and not just from teens and young adults. There comes a time when extreme measures must be implemented. Now is the time, before it becomes too late.
Is her name Trayvonetta?
Clearly racial profiling. The police acted stupidly. Heads will roll.
A large glass of ice water in the face stops a tantrum.
It's a real shame that Mr. Johnson doesn't understand what using a double negative means.
They use zip ties now.
It was probably due to a zero tolerance policy and a standing rule that the police must be called in in any situation that involves violence.
Exactly, this isn’t the only child in the school. The protection of the other children is of paramount importance.
If they can’t handle a kindergartener, maybe they need a new line of work?
Who says they didn’t handle this kindergartner?
From the link, and from all non knee-jerk responses on this thread, it is clear that the school and the police acted appropriately.
Obviously we all wish we didn’t live in a world where cuffing 6 year olds is natural and necessary, but we do.
A GROWN man can’t control a 6 yr old little girl without handcuffs?
You know when I was a kid a tantrum was ended with a pop on your seat. Now we are hancuffing little kids.
If that had been my daughter I would show him a whole new meaning of a “tantrum”.
I hate stupid.
A GROWN man can’t control a 6 yr old little girl without handcuffs?
You know when I was a kid a tantrum was ended with a pop on your seat. Now we are hancuffing little kids.
If that had been my daughter I would show him a whole new meaning of a “tantrum”.
I hate stupid.
Until I know what set off this child’s tantrum, I will not pass judgement on her actions.
If had done what she did what the cop’s did would be nothing compared to what my dad would do.
I do think that issuing teachers nylon strip handcuffs might be acceptable. They are inexpensive, quick, effective even on small wrists, and some varieties have very high tensile strength.
With time, the teacher could teach their students a three stage warning. At the first bad behavior, they get a strap on one wrist, as a warning. At second instance, they get a strap on the other wrist, again as a warning. If they keep it up, however, they get a third strip that binds the other two together. In front, if they are not too violent, or behind, if they are.
The teacher should generally keep in reserve a larger, stronger, ankle strip, if the child goes bonkers and starts kicking violently.
Students breaking glass, attempting to throw broken glass, choking out other students, trying to cut themselves with tacks, hitting, kicking, and biting staff. And some have been kindergartners up to 5th graders. Several have been admitted to in-patient psych units. One parent told of the student approaching his 7 year old sister with a butcher knife. They put bells on his room door so they know when he is "coming out" into the house.
Save all your sanctimonious condemnation of the police and school system. You obviously are ignorant (in the literal sense) of modern reality.
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