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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly, unless we were there, we have no idea how exactly this child was reacting, what preceded the incident or what behavioral problems the child might have. The real commentary here is how ill-equipped the administrators of a public school are in dealing with what is truly anticapatable behavior for a six year old. It makes me very sad that the adults handling this child couldn't come up with a more appropriate way to handle the situation. BTW, anyone who knows anything about children would realize that calling the police who at that point handcuff and place the child in a jail cell (even for five minutes) is  completely inappropriate. Six year olds with NO behavioral problems are still developing self control. I am really appalled that any grown person thinks this was a good way to handle this situation. [/quote]

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]

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