Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with what the school and police did. If it was my own child, I think that would have been the best option since it also restrains the child from hurting him/herself.

Obviously you don't have a child with special needs - or emotional problems. Schools need to be able to handle situations like this. The little girl was SIX.

I'm curious - did you read the article? You don't even know if it was a boy or girl.

Not the PP you're quoting but two of my three kids have SNs and are in elementary school. We have excellent discipline, structure and routine at home. We work closely with the school staff and, by all accounts, exceptional partners with the school. In third grade, my youngest (who is in general and special ed classrooms) had his triannual re-evalution and qualified for an IEP based on specific learning disability and emotional disability. He has problems regulating his emotions and his disruptions were escalating. The school did an excellent functional behavior analysis, brought in counselors and behavior specialists to work with/observe him and we developed a crisis plan. Very, very few staff are trained how to restrain a student and if those staff aren't available when my DS was in crisis, we know the police will be called. What else is the school supposed to do?

I'm sorry the girl experienced what she did and perhaps the police had a better way of handling it but I'm not familiar with how those situations are handled. It doesn't sound unreasonable given the circumstances. I've not seen anything from the parents that would indicate their outrage is justified. They're better off putting their energy towards identifiying triggers and working with the school to develop a behavior improvement plan.

Doesn't this belong in the "Why did you go private?" thread?

and she was pearl white they would have waited until she calmed down and then waited for mommy in her big SUV to come pick her up.

And you are assuming because she is African American her mommy wouldn't have a big SUV to come get her in?

Anonymous wrote:There was probably some latent racism and glee when the school got to call the cops and the cops got to handcuff their youngest black criminal. I can see it now. The nod and wink. The cops laughing that they had "caught one so young". It's Georgia. I bet if her name was Susan Johanssen and she was pearl white they would have waited until she calmed down and then waited for mommy in her big SUV to come pick her up.

Really? Because it looks like half the faculty including the assistant principal is black.

Anonymous wrote:There was probably some latent racism and glee when the school got to call the cops and the cops got to handcuff their youngest black criminal. I can see it now. The nod and wink. The cops laughing that they had "caught one so young". It's Georgia. I bet if her name was Susan Johanssen and she was pearl white they would have waited until she calmed down and then waited for mommy in her big SUV to come pick her up.

Listen to yourself. Do you realize that you're making some horribly racist assumptions in your post?

There was probably some latent racism and glee when the school got to call the cops and the cops got to handcuff their youngest black criminal. I can see it now. The nod and wink. The cops laughing that they had "caught one so young". It's Georgia. I bet if her name was Susan Johanssen and she was pearl white they would have waited until she calmed down and then waited for mommy in her big SUV to come pick her up.

"Southern bumpkin" again- this kid and her parents need to be glad calling the police was all that happened. When I was kid growing up where she lives, schools still practiced corporal punishment. Principal had a paddle hanging in his office. Set her back 20 some years, she could have gotten the beating of her life in response to this behavior.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup, I'm fine with this. Act like a criminal, get treated like a criminal. As for being "traumatized" I'm sure the other kids who witnessed her acting her were traumatized as well. Then again, take this all with a grain of salt because my hometown is only about 40 minutes from Milledgeville, so it's possible I have just have the same mentality as the cops and we're all Southern bumpkins.

Yes, that would certainly make you a Southern bumpkin (or a redneck, given your comments).

She was having a tantrum of some sort. She's six. She wasn't "acting like a criminal" as you put it.

She was destroying property that wasn't hers and trying to inflict harm on other people. Sounds criminal to me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with what the school and police did. If it was my own child, I think that would have been the best option since it also restrains the child from hurting him/herself.

Obviously you don't have a child with special needs - or emotional problems. Schools need to be able to handle situations like this. The little girl was SIX.

I'm curious - did you read the article? You don't even know if it was a boy or girl.

No, I don't have a child with special needs, but what's that have to do with the story? Yes, I did read the story. Was referring to if it was my child (either my daughter or my son).... which is why I said, "him/herself." Maybe my grammer was off, but whatever. I don't understand your point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with what the school and police did. If it was my own child, I think that would have been the best option since it also restrains the child from hurting him/herself.

Obviously you don't have a child with special needs - or emotional problems. Schools need to be able to handle situations like this. The little girl was SIX.

Not the PP you quoted, but there's no mention that this was a child with special needs or emotional problems. Most mainstream schools are not equipped to restrain kids, as a PP said. This school handled it the way it felt was appropriate. They tried to call the mom, and they needed to protect themselves. Heck, if the girl had gotten hurt due to her tantrums, the parents could have sued. What action do you think would have been more appropriate for the school to take?

Yes, the girl was SIX. That means she's old enough to know that you do not throw shelves. Even my 3 yo knows it's not okay to throw furniture. Again, if it's a kid with special needs, it's obviously different. That does not seem to be the case in this story.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with what the school and police did. If it was my own child, I think that would have been the best option since it also restrains the child from hurting him/herself.

Obviously you don't have a child with special needs - or emotional problems. Schools need to be able to handle situations like this. The little girl was SIX.

I'm curious - did you read the article? You don't even know if it was a boy or girl.

Im sorry but if your child has severe emotional or special needs to the point where they could physically go off and harm an adult then your child needs to have their own 24-7 supervision of some sort if they are not at home. Do not put that on the school principal. I think they handled it the best they could given what happened.

Anonymous wrote:Yup, I'm fine with this. Act like a criminal, get treated like a criminal. As for being "traumatized" I'm sure the other kids who witnessed her acting her were traumatized as well. Then again, take this all with a grain of salt because my hometown is only about 40 minutes from Milledgeville, so it's possible I have just have the same mentality as the cops and we're all Southern bumpkins.

Yes, that would certainly make you a Southern bumpkin (or a redneck, given your comments).

She was having a tantrum of some sort. She's six. She wasn't "acting like a criminal" as you put it.

Anonymous wrote:I'm OK with what the school and police did. If it was my own child, I think that would have been the best option since it also restrains the child from hurting him/herself.

Obviously you don't have a child with special needs - or emotional problems. Schools need to be able to handle situations like this. The little girl was SIX.

I'm curious - did you read the article? You don't even know if it was a boy or girl.

Yup, I'm fine with this. Act like a criminal, get treated like a criminal. As for being "traumatized" I'm sure the other kids who witnessed her acting her were traumatized as well. Then again, take this all with a grain of salt because my hometown is only about 40 minutes from Milledgeville, so it's possible I have just have the same mentality as the cops and we're all Southern bumpkins.