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scarletbeauty in rage_free

Taking it too far? I'd say so.

May 13, 2010 15:43

There's discipline, and then there's sending a SIX year old to an adult mental institution for behaving like...well, a 6 year old.

"The same school district that allowed an autistic boy to be voted out of kindergarten class for being a bit unruly has a far worse penalty for 6-year-old little girls. Handcuffs and straight jackets."[ Link to the ( Read more... )

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ginkaruja May 13 2010, 23:03:16 UTC

My brother was attacked in school by a kid who was in kindergarten when he was in first grade. This kid attacked teachers, visiting parents, and so on and so forth, and NOTHING was done, mostly because the mother made excuses so her kid wouldn't be suspended or put in detention. It kinda resulted in my brother starting to loose his stability, and creating issues he had, which is why I'm aware of the other side.

Do we leave the kids to their own devices to assault and attack other human beings? This let's them get away with it, allows them to believe their are no consequences for their actions. It gets other people hurt, sometimes badly. Kids even at six are still capable of throwing books and chairs even. Some 6 year olds are BIG now a days. It's scary!

Honestly, knowing this other side that I do...well...maybe there is something that the teachers or principal saw that made them think there might be a deeper issue? Don't get me wrong, I don't believe they were right in taking the kid to an adult facility.

Honestly, what would you have done? Have you ever seen a kid go off to the point of attacking adults outright?

scarletbeauty May 13 2010, 23:30:48 UTC

I'd have tried calling the fucking parents and expelling the problem child before doing any of this fuckery. You can't defend what they did.

ginkaruja May 13 2010, 23:39:58 UTC

Ok...the girl is showing reoccurring behavior. What if the mother had been called(I can't imagine she wasn't called the first time, that's kind of a duh thing) the first time?

Expelling is not going to get the kid help, there is a chance that maybe there was some signs that maybe this kid needs psychiatric help? Some parents don't open their eyes until the kid is already massively out of control, which happened with my brother and we didn't figure out the time line of triggers until after everything was set in motion.

Handcuffing is typical in transporting a human to a mental ward. Sending a kid to an adult ward is not right.

If this kid started going off on kids in the neighborhood and something happens(serious injury or worse), and a cop showed up and took her to a mental ward again, would there be a problem with that? Or is it just still back to 'It' a 6 year old!'?

Kids are getting more violent at younger ages, it's scary. And teachers are getting more and more to their wits end. I'm surprised a whole bunch of them aren't quitting.

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