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I'm wondering how that is possible unless they were really tight.
In any event I can understand restraining a small child but only if you have exhausted all other options. It should be the exception, not the rule. At some point you even have to consider restraint is for the safety of the kid too.
Typical coddled spolied brat from today's parents. Parents rather be their kid's friends, they rather cater to all of their needs then do the work parents should be doing.
I'm wondering how that is possible unless they were really tight.
In any event I can understand restraining a small child but only if you have exhausted all other options. It should be the exception, not the rule. At some point you even have to consider restraint is for the safety of the kid too.
Agreed, but I think that handcuffing, arresting, and charging a six year old is a bit over the top. They might have used zip ties, since regular adult cuffs would probably have been too large for a 45-50 pound child.
The article says: The child was suspended from school until August.
I think the handcuffs are burying the lead here. If someone is out of control you have to restrain them, no matter what age they are. As long as they didn't hurt her, I don't see the big deal. But suspending a kid for the rest of the school year over one outburst? Unless there's more to the story that seems outrageously excessive to me. That's a ton of school to miss. All of her peers are going to advance past her. They're going to be far more prepared for first grade than she is.
They never thought of wrapping the child in a blanket until she calmed down?
IMHO Temper Tantrums are a form of temporary insanity and the job of the parents is to keep the child from hurting thenselves or others. Handcuffs would not be an effective way to accomoplish this.
They never thought of wrapping the child in a blanket until she calmed down?
IMHO Temper Tantrums are a form of temporary insanity and the job of the parents is to keep the child from hurting thenselves or others. Handcuffs would not be an effective way to accomoplish this.
Maybe for the first five years the PARENTS could have.
But now she is in school. She is in a SOCIAL environment. It is pathetic and sad that she hasn't learned alternative ways of venting her frustration, but the time for coddling is NOT in the classroom.
She needs to learn NOW that those actions will not be tolerated, nor should they be.
I thought she was entitled... aren't entitlements the realm of liberals? Future liberal in the making...
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