Tough customer for coppers.
Six-Year-Old Handcuffed — Why weren’t the parents called to take care of this. Welcome to the US School/Prison system.
Kathy Franklin says she wants to get her daughters back in school. But after her 6-year-old was handcuffed and then sent to a mental health facility, she no longer feels her children are safe at Parkway Elementary.
“These people are going to the extreme,” Franklin said. “She is so tiny. They didn’t have to use force on her.”
On Tuesday, after another disruption, the girl was put under a law enforcement involuntary Baker Act and taken to a mental health facility. Franklin says the latest events have traumatized her daughter. She is afraid of law enforcement and school, she said.
In the title, your six turned into a caret. Darn shift keys.
Oy! Why are you using law enforcement to handle this?? Its like using a hammer to pound in a screw. I’m thinking the teachers union is pushing this off to Law Enforcement. It doesn’t make sense.
That being said it does seem the kids a handful, but aren’t most of them??
I bet the kid now has a ‘record’.
Good luck on getting on an airplane.
Or a job
Or a passport.
The report said Franklin had been contacted “several times” by the school and once by the deputy about Haley’s behavior problems. However, the parents have not showed up for meetings.
“These people are going to the extreme,” Franklin said.
If she didn’t bother to talk to the teachers, or observe her child at school, how does she determine what’s “extreme” ?
There are ways that works… but the kid has to be two digits.
Handcuffs? They should have used a tazer. That would reallly teach the kid a lesson.
Quit your griping. Those are my tax dollars paying for her discipline and education and that’s the way I want them spent.
If you don’t like it move to Somalia.
I would have called Super Nanny.
Yea, hard cases make for hard results.
Most reminds me of episodes of “The Dog Whisperer” in that the kid shows the results of her training and what she needs is just a little bit of individual attention.
Doesn’t look like she will get it though. The system rolls over a lot of people when the parents are too incompetent to provide direction.
This is perfectly reasonable. If my kid’s classmate was acting like that I would want the child removed from the class. If the kid was that violent it’s better for the teacher and the school to let law enforcement do it rather than risk some sort of lawsuit. This is just an example of the “my child is a perfect angel” syndrome.
The next step will be the parents offering the school officials bribes to leave their children alone.
Brute force is the approach to ‘getting things done’ in the small minded. Civility is declining fast. I imagine the child could actually be a horrid spoiled brat bred by an equally horrid community. The brute force approach is most likely the daily process in that area.
Cuffing a six year old is very stupid. It seems likely to be coming to a neighborhood near you. No child left behind is change you can believe in, you can take that to the bank, read my lips.
I’m thinking “the main” motivation here is that school officials were not getting any cooperation from the parents with a child who was continuing to act out.
What to do?
Mandatory child counseling if not family counseling/review seems only appropriate and maybe the only if not easiest way to get this result is by the Police intervening. There is a small list of people who can put an involuntary psychiatric hold on people and police are in that group. School nurses should be allowed too, but then they don’t have access to transportation and what not.
So==I don’t like this result, but I can’t think of a better one.
Reality bites.
this is the result of the bullshit parents lawsuits have spawned. So the topic title sounds terrible, but parents have successfully sued school districts for teachers “physically restraining” kids who act out or harm themselves or other’s Rather then have the teachers deal with the situation and possibly get sued, have the cops deal with it. I heard horror stories from public school teachers. One teacher have an autistic child in her class, when he would act out, the teacher was told to remove all of the other kids from her class and wait outside till he calmed down. well, the kid would just go outside with the rest of the class and act out there.
to quote the principal Carl Moss from King of the hill
“If I show a little tolerance, it wouldn’t be zero tolerance then”
There once has a magical cure for children that misbehaved and it didn’t require handcuffs.
It was called, the woodshed.
They say using one in a responsible manner quickly transforms the brat into an attentive child.
Two fundamental reason why this have happened:
1) BS PC inept parents who can’t raise 6yrs old who behaves.
2) Lawsuit society where everyone’s hands are tied to act properly.
Good smacking at home and school and this brat wouldn’t waste our public safety time, money and energy.
If you don’t have the balls to spank your kids when they’re throwing a tantrum…
They should have waterboarded the kid. It works well apparently.
“If you don’t have the knowledge/education/time/love/upbringing yourself to pick up your child and love them when they are misbehaving……..”
If you read the article you realize the reason the girl acts out is because the other kids don’t like her. Considering the moronitiy (new word) of the school administration, I am going to bet there are plenty of kids that are being bullied or under-performing in class.
And #17 I agree…parents are MIA here. On the other hand, 6 is too young to have police involved. Maybe the police should be taking the parents to the mental eval, not the kid.