What’s the appropriate way to calm an eight-year old who’s throwing a violent temper tantrum? Talk him down? Send him to the principal’s office? Pepper-spray him – twice?
Police in Lakewood, Colo., opted for the latter tactic to subdue Aiden Elliot after the second-grader threatened teachers and students with a piece of wooden wall trim, which he held like a knife.
“I kind of blow up a little,” the boy admitted to ABC News. “I said I’m going to kill you....”
Aidan, who is in a class for children with behavioural problems, said his teachers had put him in a corner for acting rowdy, and had called his mother. His confinement enraged him.
According to the Associated Press, when asked whether he really intended to injure anyone, Aidan responded: “A little.”
“I kind of deserved it,” he acknowledged.
Aidan’s mother Mandy Elliot said she is upset with the school, and is filing a complaint against the police.
“Why didn’t they talk to him?” she said. Or, we wonder, remove the stick from his hand? How hard can it be to disarm an 8-year-old?
“He was red, handcuffed, crying screaming how much it burned,” she said.
Ms. Elliot added that her son only acts out at school, and is never violent at home with babysitters and family members, nor is he violent at his soccer and swimming activities.
Police defended their decision, saying the situation forced them to act quickly and that no one was injured. School officials, meanwhile, told the press they’ve been seeing more elementary and pre-school students behaving violently, and are concerned about the problem.
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You cannot use pepper spray or tazers on kids, Period.
Administering corporal punishment first without talking or probing only drives the bad behavior deeper, only to surface again later. Each situation is judged on it's own merits
That's right Isaac! Another of the proper elite telling us how to manage our lives, until they kill us off.
I have two grown children, Tara, and they are fine people today. Did they throw fits, sometimes, and I handled it. Never had to pepper spray them once. I also helped raise about 9 other boys around here when my son was coming up. If they had ever been pepper sprayed I would have put my boot up their ass....pure and simple, you F with my kid, it will be hell to pay.
Also, the spanking is directed at the wrong being, I tell! E-moth
I just received this article through email: Classroom Discipline: Why Don't Students Respect their Teachers?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dyke/dyke10.1.html
The point is, school sucks and the kids know it.
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