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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Genuinely wondering, what would you have done? Assuming, of course, you'd already tried all the "duh" ideas: trying to calm her down, restrain her, calling her mom, reasoning with her, etc.

[/quote]The point is, after working with children for over twenty years, calling the police would have never, EVER even occurred to me even if I had tried all the means you described above. Do you really think the child wouldn't have calmed down after a period of time? If the bear hug approach didn't work, what about placing her in room where she could do no harm to herself or others? This is assuming that this child was really capable of doing serious harm to others. Again, if we don't realize that this is not an indictment of a six year old's behavior but an indictment of how adults handled it, we are lost.[/quote]

How many schools have a room where she could do herself or others no harm?  My elementary school doesn't and I would know because my DS has an emotional disability.  They also aren't allowed to leave him unattended at any time.  This child already showed she was capable of harming others and she clearly had been raging for some time already.  She would have started in the classroom.  That she continued to do it with the principal indicates that she truly was out of control.

If it wouldn't have occurred to you to call the police, what WOULD you have done?  The child is raging, is tearing things off the wall, throwing things, threw a shelf which hit the principal, jumped on a shredder and was trying to break a glass frame.  If I were doing all those things, I'd be worn out but she didn't slow down.  She was raging and showing no signs of calming.  Just what would you have done next?  Being handcufffed is better than being pepper sprayed or TASED[/quote]

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