First, is it necessary for the police to slap handcuffs on a five year old child? Well in St. Petersburg, Fl it is. Wizbang's Kevin Aylward pointed to a story yesterday in Florida where a five year old little girl was handcuffed and arrested for throwing a tantrum.
That's right. A tantrum. Take a look at the first video, while she was in the classroom. Then there's the video in the office. Watch some of her antics first, and then scroll to the 5:00 mark on the office video, where they handcuff her.
I could see if this was a 14 year old kid raising hell. But a five year old little girl? Let's get real for a second; if you can't control a five year old child - even if you can't whup her, which is all she really needed - then you have problems. The police shouldn't be sent to a school because the teacher and the administration can't control that child. Lord knows if three of them got out of hand, much less one, because the school would have been in utter chaos.
When situations arise and you are limited by options, competent people adapt and find solutions. Period. The principal could have easily found an empty, but ventilated room, had the child placed in there, and waited until either she calmed down or her mother got there. There was no need to send the cops there. They should be concentrating on real criminals, rather than handling disturbances that could have been easily done by the school administrators.
What you had in that school was an undisiciplined child being an undisciplined child. Look at the office video. At the 3:00 mark, she was acting the fool; pulling stuff off the boards, standing up on tables, HITTING the administrator, etc.
But at the 4:30 mark, she happened to glance out of that window, and she immediately sat down. Could it be that the cops walked in? Of course. That tells you that she knew what authority was, and she knows what she can get away with and at what time. She sat there and didn't say another word for that moment on. If the teachers and administrators would show that kind of authority, then they wouldn't have that problem. Instead, they let the kids run over them and then resort to extremes in order to fan the fires they allowed to burn.
Every day we're given more and more evidence that a growing number of teachers and administrators that are supposed to be educating today's children are woefully inept and simply not capable of handling these students. Today it's a five year old girl getting handcuffed. Tomorrow it's a child being suspended due to pointing a chicken finger at someone. How about a child being suspended for doing cartwheels?
Or, how about a 8-year-old child beating a principal with a wooden pole?
Yeah. The principal sees the child walking on campus with a pole in his hand, just about as tall as he is. She tries to take the pole away from him, and he turns into Buford Pusser. She ended up receiving several lacerations to the head.
When it gets to the point that you are getting opened up by an eight year old child, it's time to retire. I don't care who you are. If you can not defend yourself against elementary school children, then you shouldn't be teaching elementary school. I do feel for this woman, but it's just another example of the incompetence of school administrators. At the very least, she should have went and called for help.
As a result, the school went on total lockdown, even after the cops took the kid away. All outside doors were locked; the kids never left their classrooms. They even ate lunch in there. "Crisis counselors" were called in to help with the grieving.
It's no wonder why these incidents happen. Schools are being ran by a bunch of whimps. I don't want to bring children in the world after reading these incidents.
