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.
I still have scars (both emotional and physical) from when teachers would pinch me or hit me across the knuckles with a ruler. At least I didn’t get hit with the paddle which was hanging on the principal’s wall. Repeat offenses were relatively rare from that punishment. My how times have changed (maybe not for the better).
She’s 6. I guess it is not a surprise that some who remember being assaulted as children think violence is the only solution (bring back the scarring!?). Go figure.
I guess it worked to make you scared enough not to talk back, but it didn’t make you compassionate enough not to advocate violence against a 6 year old girl.
Solution, remove her from school (if she is really a threat to others) and offer support to the parents. If they do not take up the offer that is up to them. Also, address any possible catalyst (like being bullied) before lumping all the blame on the victim turned perpetrator.
Maybe if we valued schools as much as all the other worthless crap in society (e.g. Wall Street?) they would have the time and resources to be the kind of places suitable to offload the education (read raising) of our children, and maybe then there would be (virtually) no need to call the cops on 6 year old girls.
Nah, too much trouble, just beat ‘em.
She does seem like a candidate for a mental health evaluation. Violently out-of-control for an hour?
That seem like a mental illness, rather than just a behavioural problem.
I know the parents try to make the school look like villains but sending the girl for mental health evaluation is probably the right thing.
Worse, is that the parents don’t seem to understand the severity of the problem — if they did they surely would have come to meetings about their daughter.
Still, the handcuffs seem like too much. How much of a danger was she really to staff and other children?
>> Dr Dodd said, on February 22nd, 2010 at 2:38 pm
>> It was called, the woodshed.
>> They say using one in a responsible manner quickly transforms the brat into an attentive child.
I have never seen any research that bears this out.
If you have a link to a study which proves that hitting a child solves severe behavioural problems, I’d read it.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
That’s about sums up America. It’s all about power, and this tiny kid has none.
I’d like to see restrain some wild kid while managing 25 other excited children. It’s not as simple as a power issue, but our legalistic society. We can’t ignore certain actions, and we are limited on how we can respond. We can no longer handle things informally, but follow the
legal procedure set down by the courts. The courts rule, not common sense.
I’d like to see restrain some wild kid while managing 25 other excited children. It’s not as simple as a power issue, but our legalistic society. We can’t ignore certain actions, and we are limited on how we can respond. We can no longer handle things informally, but follow the
legal procedure set down by the courts. The courts rule, not common sense.
She fought the law, and the law won. Same old story, just a younger version.
#24-Greg Allen
Children are constantly testing boundaries. No one said beat a child, but a little pop on rump helps to set clear boundaries.
Make no mistake, few if any children appreciate the effort at the time. It’s later in life they understand and will love their parents instead of despise them for not teaching the difference between right from wrong.
Society will certainly appreciate it.
Don’t have a clue about the particulars of this case.
I do know that some spoiled rotten brats and people with major behavioral problems are nobody anybody sane wants to be around. I once dealt with a class that had two such people in it and it was a very bad year even though the classes rotated. Some of these people are a serious threat to the safety and well being of those around them and even if yours aren’t you aren’t going to get much teaching done because you end up spending all your time dealing with them.
If you haven’t personally dealt with somebody like this you don’t have a clue. If you have you wonder how the parents avoid having a nervous break down if they do that is.
On the other hand you do have the occasional dream class when you can’t wait to get up in the morning and go to work because teaching is the best job in the Universe.
#4 You don’t get a “record” unless you are convicted of something.
Essentially, I am unsympathetic to parental crocodile tears about some spoiled brat who has had no boundaries set by parents. If a school official puts their hands on the brat, they are arrested themselves and likely suspended. Even when they call police so that trained professionals can deal with it at no risk to the school, the whiny parents are still not happy.
People who refuse to exercise control over their children and teach them basic standards of public behavior should be held responsible to pay the costs that public institutions are subjected to as a result of having to act as parents by proxy.
Drama queen, needs to be taught a lesson.
WTF, they didn’t taze her? How ineffective are our police getting in the Police State that we live in?
Schools have always gone overboard for minor offenses. I once got caught playing “Pencils” where you hold a pencil and the other person trys to break your pencil with another pencil.
I got swats for that….thats just silly.
Why has highschool become a playground for the S&M loving adult teachers?
Just tase them..that I’ll learn um a thing or two.