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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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They had ping-pong paddles in my elementary school. I never found the ping-pong table those buggers were hiding!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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