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Girl, 6, Handcuffed, Committed Because Of Classroom Behavior
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The kid is 37 pounds and the put her in handcuffs? Then the next day they had her committed? WOW. There must be a lot more to this than just this story. I mean how bad do things have to get before a school full of adults has to get the police and a mental facility involved? |
"the school has contacted Haley's parents several times about setting up a meeting to discuss her behavior, but they have never shown up."
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I read that too - last time was Tuesday - mom had car problems. :eyebrow:
Still - she is 6 and weighs 37lbs. |
At age 6, it's a little difficult to have a "mental health history," or much of any history for that matter.
I take calls from parents of children as young as 3 who are doing this sort of thing. Frankly, they should have gone the commitment route the first day, rather than letting there be a second. I've had a 10 year old destroy a secure interview room. I don't have a problem with handcuffs or restraints or forcible medication when a kid is that out of control. Obviously the school can't shoot the kid up, but you work with what you have, including having a staff member do a physical hold to restrain. Been there, done that. The school is responsible for the safety of ALL the children in the classroom, not just the one who is flipping out. Unfortunately a couple of weeks of hospitalization will not cure the previous 6 years of ineffective parenting. |
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Bullshit parents...simple enough. Probably the only way that kid will get any help.
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I guess I was thinking that they would call the parents FIRST to come get her. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. Thats a part of the story that isn't there.
I would expect that from my kids school. Then again I'd have been up the schools ass long before it got to this point. |
It's a no-win situation for the school.
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"My kid does no wrong. My kid is perfect."
Yep, I've seen the products of those parenting skills. Kids grow up feeling entitled and unable to fight their own battles except through use of violence or running back to mommy or daddy. Doesn't do the kid any favors. |
There is definitely something missing from the story there.
The little girl came home from school with marks on her wrists from handcuffs and they sent her back the next day? I would at least have accompanied my child to school for a face to face meeting at that point. BEFORE allowing her back in the classroom. |
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I wonder what the "offending item was. Surely it wasn't just a marker, right? I mean they must have found drugs or something. |
The missing part of the story is that the parents are worse than useless. If my kid behaved that way, I'd prefer they handcuffed him before he seriously hurt himself or someone else, for a start. (yes we all know which kid, and no, we're not far off....
) The age and weight have NOTHING to do with it. (Neither does the pregnancy of the principal.) The parents are too stupid to realize that they are to blame and that's why they've gone to the press, They don't care about the kid, they want their 15 minutes and see this as a perfect vehicle. And this Junk Reporter is lapping it up. If the principal's pregnancy makes her more vulnerable, then she shouldn't be doing the job. But it doesn't, seeing as she took the right course of action, so it was sensationalism to mention it. |
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A kid so uncontrollable that the teacher, then the principal, then the cops all found her too troubled to handle? A problem so serious and the parents made no effort to discuss the problem immediately or seek a solution? A child considered so traumatic that professionals considered immediate psychiatric evaluation necessary? Every number implies something seriously wrong. And parents are abetting that problem by ignoring it - if not the source of that problem. If your kid is to problematic as to require police - a responsible parent drops everything to address that problem. Obviously not a problem that anyone here can pass judgement other than to say something is seriously wrong. 6 years old and only 37 pounds (17 Kg)? Why is that not relevant? |
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