Ordinarily I would choose Other. We forget what schools are for and many public school children while they may not be beyond help certainly need way more than the schools should even be asked to provide.
School is for teaching and quite frankly I'm tired of normal children who are capable of learning and who do pay attention having to deal with these kind of classmates. It's sad but children like this seven year old boy need help. Learning his ABCs and 123s is the least of his problems.
Teachers cannot do it all no matter how good they are. Do you want your child's teacher spending time helping her class gain knowledge or do you want her spending most of their classroom time cow-tailing to the emotionally and mentally disturbed?
TRAIN WRECK OF THE WEEK > Is It OK to Handcuff a 7-Year-Old?
Travis J. Quibbert
2011/04/23 18:00:00
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Is it ever OK to handcuff a 7-year-old? That’s what New York City residents are asking after police were called to a primary school to handle a child’s temper tantrum.
Joseph Anderson, a Queens, N.Y., special needs student, became distraught when the Easter egg he was decorating in class turned out wrong. So distraught that the school called Joseph’s mom, Jessica, and told her he was misbehaving and she’d need to come get him. That was 12:30pm.
By 1:45 Jessica reached the school, but Joseph was gone: dragged away by the NYPD in handcuffs and taken to a local hospital. School officials claim they were unable to calm him and called the police when they were concerned that Joseph would harm himself or another child, but many are questioning what seems like an extreme response to an unruly grade schooler.
School chancellor Dennis Walcott vowed to look into the incident, but maintains that “there are occasions when [handcuffing] may need to be done.”
The NYPD also defends its action, saying Joseph was "acting in a threatening manner" and the handcuffs were needed to restrain him. The school has twice previously sent Joseph to the hospital after behavioral problems.
Jessica has pulled Joseph, who she says is traumatized from the incident, from the school and publicly called for the removal of the school’s principal, but Joseph would just like an apology.
"I want those cops to say sorry to me and the principal for calling the ambulance on me and handcuffing me," he told reporters.
Joseph Anderson, a Queens, N.Y., special needs student, became distraught when the Easter egg he was decorating in class turned out wrong. So distraught that the school called Joseph’s mom, Jessica, and told her he was misbehaving and she’d need to come get him. That was 12:30pm.
By 1:45 Jessica reached the school, but Joseph was gone: dragged away by the NYPD in handcuffs and taken to a local hospital. School officials claim they were unable to calm him and called the police when they were concerned that Joseph would harm himself or another child, but many are questioning what seems like an extreme response to an unruly grade schooler.
School chancellor Dennis Walcott vowed to look into the incident, but maintains that “there are occasions when [handcuffing] may need to be done.”
The NYPD also defends its action, saying Joseph was "acting in a threatening manner" and the handcuffs were needed to restrain him. The school has twice previously sent Joseph to the hospital after behavioral problems.
Jessica has pulled Joseph, who she says is traumatized from the incident, from the school and publicly called for the removal of the school’s principal, but Joseph would just like an apology.
"I want those cops to say sorry to me and the principal for calling the ambulance on me and handcuffing me," he told reporters.
Read More: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/04/21/201...
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Elaine 2011/04/24 15:04:29
These Officers were called to handle the result of failed parenting, poor inter-school disciplinary action (or lack, thereof) and plain lack of common sense.
How the hell do 45% of people disagree?
1) handcuff them
2) tase them
3) beat them down with a night stick
Kids have no respect these days, they seem to know ALL about their "rights" but know little about responsibility
HOWEVER, I read the child's comment, and my initial reaction says this child obviously has 1) never been made to pay for his mistakes, 2) doesn't understand HE is to blame for his behavior, and 3) it seems obvious the child has never been PROPERLY taught/disciplined at home.
This child is 7 YO already with a "victim" mentality. Unless that behavior changes, he'll blame everyone for all of his problems all of his life, and that temper tantrum will only escalate into more violent behavior. Gotta look to the parent for that...maybe she's still a "victim" in her own mind, too...
And having raised six kids of my own, I can assure you that if a seven-year-old doesn't want to be controlled, it is almost impossible to do so, so, yes, it may be appropriate to restrain him at times.
I think the way this child was handled was deplorable and I'm sure the child was traumatized by the incident. Even though what I said above stands, the fact is, that as long as we are willing to accept simplistic, cheap solutions to complex and difficult issues -- and degrade the importance of well funded educational institutions, we will have this and worse in the future.
How is this different than a frustrated parent duct-taping their kid to a chair, or something similar?
some people may have the view of "i don't want my 'normal' child around this 'stupid' one" ... and to me, that is complete disregard for anyone other than oneself/family... and not at all being kind to others (which is what Jesus told us to do, to love one another) .. which to me is bad bad bad! and if my child was a special needs child, i definitly would be in those type of peoples faces.. yup yup sure would
america's children have no rights - how sad....
edit: at what age is child; legally or morally responsible for their own actions?
Since the 1960’s to the present there’s been racial problems, white against black, black and white against mixed race, then came the Asians, black, white and mixed race against Asian then it got really complex, Britain moves into the EU Market and opened the floodgates to the Eastern European migrant worker and during the last 10 years religion has come into the equation, Bigoted Brits of all colours and creeds have taken to use religion as a vent for their cultural anger…. And you say the UK doesn’t have a problem?