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Originally posted by Mean Mr. Mustard@Apr 23 2005, 09:40 AM
Transplant I don't know which video you were able to see, but I didn't see a little girl sitting in her chair when the police officers came in to deal with the situation. The little brat was punching people, jumping on desks and basically attempting to rip apart the classroom. The issue is what options did the school have.
The first option I can think of is having the teachers attempt to restrain the child. There are problems assocaited with this the most notable being that teachers are not trained to use physical force against a child, thus increasing the possibility that something would go wrong, and have even more serious consiquences for all parties involved.
The second option is to weather the storm if you will and allow the child to just stop wrecking things, and to stop being a brat. The problem here is at what point does that stop, and what behaviours does that reinforce. I think it says a lot when the mother doesn't agknowledge that her child did something wrong in any of the articles I have read and actually said that the school "set my baby up". It might say something about the level of disipline which is given by the school system.
The third option was to call the police, and this is the obvious negatives attached to this option.
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The first option, as I see it, is "Don't Use Handcuffs". After that you've got plenty of options.
"Weather the storm" is probably the best way to go about it and don't give me any of that "what behaviors does it re-enforce" business. Believe me, she'll peter out real quick if everyone else stops freaking out. Sure she may tear a few more things off the bulletin board and stomp on the desk but I think everyone could get over that eventually.
That inept woman was obviously making it worse.
The cops were just ######s.