Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum

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• "It Takes A Village" has reached Kindergarten. Pretty soon they'll be busting heads and taking names at your local daycare.

• How is it that I could train Homer (my basset hound) not to go potty in the house or to chew things or to do any other thing percieved as bad behaviour without ever screaming and yelling at him or so much as touching him but a human being hasn't been taught to hehave herself?

  Bottom line is abject FAILURE on the part of the parents to instill any sense of respect for authority or personal responsibility in this kid. To all the teachers out there I have to say God love ya. I couldn't do a job with my hands tied behind my back. You must be filled with stress. You know the definition of stress? That gut wrenching feeling in your head when you can't, but so strongly want to, slap the crap out of some a-hole who so richly deserves it.

• This is one reason why I spent untold thousands of dollars on a non-public education for my offspring. Those schools don't give second chances to disruptive or uncooperative kids - or their parents.

• They can spare her a$$ now but she will be tasered later.

• We should not read too much into this. The child is probably being groomed to be disruptive by her mother, because a disruptive child can be eligable for a 'crazy check'.

• What the hell is happening in the south?!?! Global Goring or what? I just read an article yesterday about two third graders(eight years old) having oral sex in the classroom while others watched!! WTF!?! The teacher was fired and the two involved were seen by counselors. That's a relief. I guess we wouldn't call their parents either. The public school system is an amazing wonder.

  • They were probably 1st cousins, too.

    • Hey! It's just how God made them, and I hope someday this last kind of forbidden love will be allowed to come out of the closet, too.

      Right, Sis?

      • ...and if the hussien obama's had kid's in the third grade they would love like this??

• "If I had a third daughter, she'd look like Salecia." [Barack Obama]

  • Best comment of the year!!!

  • LOLOLOLOLOLOL okay... that was funny

  • *arches right-eyebrow.

• "Police said a small shelf thrown by the child struck the principal in the leg during the fracas. The child also jumped on a paper shredder and tried to break a glass frame"

  Mr. H, you are the teacher: what do you do? Lay hands on the child and get yourself arrested? Call the kid's parents? Does it sound like they are effective parents; will this do any good? Call paramedics to put her in straitjacket and shoot her up with a tranquilizer?

  Really. I'm not sure calling the cops on a six year old is the greatest idea in the world, and I'm not sure it was the right thing to do here, but of course I don't have the benefit of being a highly trained educator and member of a teachers' union.

  So tell me -- YOU are the teacher. What do YOU do?

  • I woould hold this child in my arms from the back (so as not to get spit on or bitten) like I was taught for psych patients, and police be damned. Not only was the child a danger to others, she was a danger to herself and the grown ups in the room should have put on their big people panties and ACTED like adults, protecting her and everyone else! SHEESH! And yes, calling the cops and having her evaluated psychiatrically is appropriate. Her behaviour was bizarre.

  • I know someone who teaches in a public high school. The "students" are all civil rights lawyers and the administration is a bunch of cover-your-ass types who hide under their desks and compile lists of people to blame when anything happens. Actual support of the classroom teachers is at best mythical. Touching a "child" is an invitation to disciplinary action, lawsuits, harrassment by enrgaged parent(s) or all of the above.

    Yeah, I agree, calling the police may not SOUND like a rational idea but the law and the school system makes it the safest one in terms of preserving one's own quality of life and career.

    • When we were in elementary school and junior high it wasn't uncommon to get your ass paddled by the principal if you were fighting, smarting off, etc. The razzing you got afterwards was worse than the paddling.

      I smarted off to a teacher in 9th grade. The vice principal about broke my arm escorting me to his office. You can bet I didn't do that again. Nowadays a parent would sue and make excuses for their kid.

      My youngest son was harassing a kid when he was in 10th grade. They met on the stairs. My son said something, the kid popped him one in the eye. I was waiting for him and my cell phone rang. It was the vice principle who told me what happened. My response was "It sounds like my son got what he asked for."

      He then wanted me to come in to his office and meet, so I did. They suspended the other kid over my protest that he should not be suspended. They suspended my son for 3 days. I told my son to leave the room. The principle, vice principle and me had a talk. I told them my son wasn't going to be rewarded by sitting home watching TV and on the computer for 3 days. I asked them if my son could come to school the 3 days and work for the janitor, cleaning toilets or whatever. They both looked terribly surprised I hadn't called my attorney and that I wanted this and eagerly agreed. He got dropped off at 8am the next 3 days by me. A few days of working with the janitor and getting razzed by his friends was a great cure for his behavior. He's 21 now, I finally told him awhile back I'm the reason he worked with the janitor for 3 days. He was surprised.

      • Great idea CO2! Parents are seriously falling down on their part in making kids well adjusted, contributing members of society! If I had been after some kid and got popped in the eye, I dread to think what my dad would have done to me after he found out!

      • I grew up in a similar school situation. In elementary school certain teachers would give a swat with a yardstick (not the thin ones--the ones that were 1/4" thick). One teacher I had in 5th or 6th grade use to give out what we referred to as "The Mather Rap" in which he would rap you right on top of the head with the knuckle of his middle finger. In Jr. High our Principal had the "Board of Education" (a piece of 3/4" oak about 5"x12" with a nice handle. The only reason I have personal knowlege of this is we use to grab onto the school bus bumpers and squat and let the bus pull us around in the snow (in Alaska) on the last couple of hundred yards to the bus stop. Pain is a very good educator.

        • dangit, i had to get up close to the monitor to make your avi out. I thought, from where i recline in my chair, that it was a star viper, i think that's what they used in the original TV Battlestar Gallactica Series. It looked like a straight shot of the fighter in launch mode. But, i see now 'tis a ... Formula 1?

        • Indy Car, Robert. Penske Racing #3-Castroneves.

      • wait, wait, wait, are you saying you think it's only right/fair/just, to expect your child, your precious flesh and blood, to be held accountable for his/her actions?
        why, that's appalling!

• All I can say is, they are very lucky that wasn't my kid.....

  That falls under the "Color Of Law" civil rights laws-that protect us from terrorism by those with badges and guns.

  Of course it made the news cause the kid is black-but that is