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A lawyer has threatened to sue police in St Petersburgh Florida for handcuffing an allegedly uncontrollable 5yr old girl..The child was acting up in a kindergarten, where the incident was caught on a video camera,which was filming during a Self Improvement class..Police officers were called after the teacher and head principal, failed to control the child,the lawyer acting for the girl's mother, said the episode was "incomprehensible!".
omg, thats sad.
Yes its wild eh and while I'm not condoning the police we all know how trying children can be,and some really know how to push the right buttons, maybe the police just reached the point of no return ...it was either handcuff the little darling, or lose the plot entirely, and here's another angle, maybe the girl has some behavioural problem ADHD for instance, which her parents and teachers have missed....
I cannot understand why a fully grown person cannot control a 5 year-old. They're not that strong!
What exactly was this girl doing anyway? Did she have like a knife or something and she was stabbing people?
she apparently punched a teacher and proceeded to try to wreck the classroom...I'm willing to bet it's not the 1st time either.
A punch from a five year-old isn't something the adult recipient should be incapable of dealing with.
Considering how teachers can't even touch the kids anymore, it's no wonder the police got called. I guess they called the mom and she didn't come for like two hours!
Hmm Pb I agree over here in Scotland children run riot in schools,beating up teachers or each other,and when the teacher lashes out due to constant provocation,the child yells "I'll say you abused me or I'll have you for assault ect" in this case although it's possible, that the child may have an underlying behavioural problem,I think the police were driven to handcuffing the little brat...
Also, the child was endangering herself too. If they hadn't stopped her, the mom would've been mad too.
I know I won't be in anyone's good books when I say there's nothing wrong with these lilaputions that can not be cured by a quick return to the days of corperal punnishment. Anyone ever hear the old saying, spare the rod, spoil the child?
Well if I was a teacher and someone was trashing my classroom, I wouldn't hesitate to make an example out of them, no matter what their age was.
Handcuffing a five year old? God, please. People never cease to amaze me... If you can't handle a five year old, you need to go back to school. Honestly.
I think the police wouldn't have been called if there wasn't a good reason for it. Children these days have more rights than do the adults who are meant to be in loco perentice during school time. Teachers lives have been wrecked by unfounded alegations of abuse and such like. it must be stated here, that in england at least, if a teacher is accused of abuse by a child and it gets investigated, as all claims should be, the teacher can kiss their teaching job and any further work with children goodbye, even if the alegations are found to be absolute bollocks on thorough investigation. the attitude provails that even though this teacher might have been found guilty, there's no smoke without fire, is there? sometimes there is. it has been known for children to accuse a particular teacher they didn't like of abuse, because they knew that teacher would be suspended from work, and would ultimately lose their job. for no local education authority can take the risk of having a teacher who's been accused, wrongly or otherwise, working in their schools.
Dobbin your right pal its thanks to the do gooders that we find ourselves held to ransom by children,in Scotland some criminals are 6-8 yrs old, and they too are carrying knives, society has gone to far in protecting children and this is the result...
this little madam needed to feel the might of the law and as Puppybraille pointed out, she was in danger maybe not from her mother,but certainly from herself...
A teacher of mine pointed out that the girl's mom could've taught her a lesson about listening to authority then talking out differences. But instead, the kid learned that her parents would always back her so she didn't need to listen. I guess the Mom yelled at the police when she finally got
there.
Pb I agree with ya there, because when I was a kid growing up, I got the strap most deffinatly, and looking back on it I'm sure as hell glad I did, and I'm looking forward to dealing it out to any future child of mine. People say you gotta give them a time out these days, hell back in 1980 my parents took time out of their day to dish out the beatings, but only when they were appropriate of course, but they, tought, lessons!
I would disagree with the “looking forward to dishing out the beatings”, I am by no means one of these anti smacking do gooders who feels that it is totally wrong to smack a child, however, when I became a parent my perceptions and ideas on a lot of things changed considerably from what I thought should, and shouldn’t be done. I was the first to say when I saw a toddler throwing a tantrum in a supermarket “that child needs a bloody good hiding”, and then when I myself had a toddler, and mixed with more and more people with toddlers, I came to the realization that having tantrums is, in fact, what toddlers do, and sometimes the only way out of it is to walk away from it (time out as you put it rr), and ignore it until he comes out of it. I found that by becoming angry/frustrated with him only made it worse, so that defeated the object. To date I have been lucky in that my son has never had such a tantrum in public, but I do know people whose children have, and it is in fact a no win situation. Because you can ignore it and then some members of the public will look on in disgust at the absolutely dreadful behaviour of that child, or you could smack the child and then you’re in the wrong because some members of the public feel that you are committing child abuce.
Also, a smack will work for one child, but not another. Apparently my sister who is three years older than me was smacked by my mother when she was about 4, she promptly turned round to my mother and proclaimed “that didn’t hurt!”. My mother now admits that smacking never worked for my sister but, in her words, “it made me feel a lot better”. In fact, a survey of parents in this country recently indicated that 75% of them had smacked their children not by means of a punishment for wrongdoing, but out of frustration when they just didn’t know what to do any more.
I am not saying that a smack doesn’t work in some situations, however it is not the answer to our discipline problems, discipline comes in a lot of forms, and smacking is just a very small part of that.
Rocker you worry me pal looking forward to beating up a child! You should be feckin well locked up...