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Remove her from the class room, take her somewhere else, hold her damn arms and legs till she calms the hell down. There was no need to hand cuff her, put her in a police car and haul her off to jail, that is ridiculous.
Uh huh- and then you've for four to eight people being sued for "touching the child inappropriately" or "molesting that poor, sweet, innocent young girl". It's easy to say "remove her from the class room" as if you can just nod your head like Jeanie or twitch your nose like on Bewitched and the kid would magically disappear from the classroom and be placed safely in the principal's office. Unfortunately, reality doesn't work that way.
Maybe a little lesson on impulse control could help.
If it were my kid, she'd still be grounded.
And for those cuffs to hurt, she would have to be really big, or the cuffs child-sized.
Some b-ball and weight lifting with general population, along with a diet of bread and water will get her down to proper weight for her age in no time.
Best and most accurate post here. Thank you for being so truthful, and i too have a family member who has an autistic child. And at any time they can act out for the smallest of detail. They can be set off.
However i do not know if a child at this age, being hand cuffed, was the right thing to do.
Obviously if this child is acting out in this way at school, most likely she is acting in this same manner at home. It is the job of all parents to teach their child acting out in this way, will result in consequences, whatever they may be. Parenting skills these days are lacking.
I have seen it time and time again when out, when a child is kicking his feet, screaming, throwing his hands in the air, punching the air, screaming, and the parents sit by, and do nothing. That is teaching the child he can do these acts of being out of control, with no consequences at all in place.
I agree with you post, parenting, and teaching right and wrong, begins at home. Failure to do so, is just blaming others for you own lack of parenting skills needed for a well rounded child..
Agreed..
Its very easy to sit back and condemn the school staff, the police or anyone else who was involved besides the parents and the child....
All children can and will act out, but to what degree?
I nor 99.9% of the posters here don't know this child. We only had a short article to read. What we do know is that other children were in harms way.
The staff could or should have done.... We keep hearing. Yes and the same outraged parents could sue them.
That is today's society's answer to everything.
I didn't see anywhere that the parents are accepting any ownership of this child's behavior. I did not see them apologizing for the actions of their child.
I only saw where they were blaming everyone else for doing something wrong. Typical of today's society also.
As I said before the cuffs may have been over the top. I don't know how out of control the child was.
My gut tells me that any lesson this child might have gained from this will be lost as the parents focus on the actions of the police/school instead of on the root cause of the incident which is the behavior of the the child.
If the parents FAIL at doing THEIR job, in getting the child prepared for social interaction and PROPER behavior, then SOMEONE needs to try to speed up that learning process so she can move FORWARD in her education.
Sometime it's not the parents fault. Maybe they tried all they can but she is just out of control. Maybe she has mental issues and is just now shoing the signs and it makes it hard for her to learn right from wrong.
Uh huh- and then you've for four to eight people being sued for "touching the child inappropriately" or "molesting that poor, sweet, innocent young girl". It's easy to say "remove her from the class room" as if you can just nod your head like Jeanie or twitch your nose like on Bewitched and the kid would magically disappear from the classroom and be placed safely in the principal's office. Unfortunately, reality doesn't work that way.
"Salecia Johnson, 6, was accused of tearing items off the walls and throwing furniture in an outburst Friday.."
Does that sound like a typical 6 year old ? I would consider THROWING furniture a danger and threat to other students.
I'm with the police on this one.
Aaaaaaagh!!!! 6 year old handcuffed and arrested for assault and damage to property!
This is fracking NUTS, when policy overrides common sense and adults are incapable of dealing with a 6 year old that they are supposed to be experts in handling
The family of a 6-year-old Georgia girl is upset at police and school officials after the girl was handcuffed and taken to a police station for allegedly throwing furniture, tearing items off the walls and knocking over a shelf, which injured the principal.
""She has mood swings some days, which all of us have mood swings some days," she told WMAZ-TV. "I guess that was just one of her bad days."
No, that kind of behavior, if true, is not a mood swing. That is being a violent brat. I normally don't agree with these kind of cases where the children are arrested, but in this situation, if a SIX YEAR old is lashing out like that, it needs to be stopped and obviously the parents are coddling her too much. NO six year old should be acting like that
Normally medical personnel would put such a child onto a papoose restraint board.
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Aaaaaaagh!!!! 6 year old handcuffed and arrested for assault and damage to property!
