In the race with Texas and California for the title of the weirdest state in the Union, there are new developments in Florida.
Apparently, the atmosphere in the public schools is such in this state that it's necessary to call law enforcement on a 5 year old having a temper fit!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Link to a story?
-Trevor
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Is this the one from March or is this a new case?
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
I don't know if it's the March case. I do know the video was featured last night on most of the Kansas City tv stations' news.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
It's the March case. But apparently the entirety of the incident was filmed, and video was just released to the public.
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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
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Posted by Ele (Member # 708) on :
The Florida legislature has the solution to everything. Besides the normal kinds of laws in the public interest such bodies produce, they legislate teaching and learning, family tragedies (if I had a nickle for every Florida law with someone's name on it, I could live very comfortably for a long time without working!), what punishments parents are allowed to use. You name it: every day, it seems, they come up with a new idea about what to pass a law about!
If they had their way, they'd legislate which grocery stores people were allowed to shop at!
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Yay. Bring on the totalitarians! Who needs freedom!
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
What else were they suppose to do? If the girl became violent with them, they couldn;t really even defend themselves without opening themselves up to liability.
Obviously this isn't the first time this has happened, she had been warned, as had her mother.
Three cops there...not to force her, but to be witnesses if the mother creid abuse, I bet.
Posted by Bean Counter (Member # 6001) on :
My grandmother (first grade teacher) used a ruler or a yard stick as needed. It is sad when we let the pseudo scientists influence law to the point where a delicate and beautiful construct like the human pain system cannot be used as the learning tool God made it to be. I am so glad I went to school in Iowa.
BC
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
They had ping-pong paddles in my elementary school. I never found the ping-pong table those buggers were hiding!
Posted by Ele (Member # 708) on :
Gee, Tater, I can beat that:
The principal had a spanking machine at my elementary school! It had a ping pong paddle *on* it, some gears and a crank to make the paddle fly up and down real fast and a bicycle seat that served as a "knee" to be turned over for the purpose of said punishment. We were scared to death of that thing!
~Ele
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Pffft - Kwea, when will you learn? I am, more times than not, on the side of the cops.
This incident is no exception - not to rehash old ground, but no matter how the cops tried to restrain the child, they would be criticized. Usually by people never responsible for trying to restrain the unwilling.
And in the Golden Age of lawsuits, I would imagine the school has a pretty strict "hands off" policy when it comes to restraining students.
-Trevor
Edit: For spelling. And typos.
[ April 25, 2005, 06:44 PM: Message edited by: TMedina ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*reads BC's post*
O_O
*checks Sarcastometer*
*re-calibrates*
*heaves sigh of relief*
Posted by Hyperfried (Member # 7892) on :
I'd just like to ask you one thing - Did your mothers need the police when you were throwing a tantrum? Assuming they didn't... what. The. Crap.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I was never that out of control - although it did take a doctor and four nurses to hold me down for my first shot.
Permit me to point out, however, that a mother has a little more leeway in what she can do to restrain her child than non-family members can.
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