playing devel's advocate here, a few comments inline. > Yep....remove the 20 or 30 other kids who are behaving just fine, disrupt > their education, move them around
AS I understand it this was done anyway. And yes, it was an overreaction. The whole THING was an overreaction. all to accomodate this one little brat > who's parents have passed off their discipline problem on the teachers. we don't know any of this -- you're projecting. > I feel for the child, but I'm always bothered by the outrage people show > over the treatment of a child who's acting in this way. Kids do act this way. Some more than others. Where's the outrage > at the parents? For what exactly? Sending their child to school? Where's the sympathy for the other children who have to > witness this? I have plenty, personally. Though I don't think we are talking about the same thing. Most children have seen another child throw a tantrum. It isn't every child who has seen an adult abdicate responsibility for a situation like this, and that're pretty scary. If the inmates are running the asylum, anything can happen. I don't care if the teachers thought calling the cops and > handcuffing this kid was the quickest and easiest way to remove this child > from the classroom. All blame falls on the parents. 100%. Why? they aren't even in the building. Somebody cared enough about that child to put her hair in corn-rows and dress her in a pretty dress. I'm not convince you can make the case that poor impulse control in a five year old equals poor parenting. I refuse to try > and blame a teacher who's reacting as best he/she can to a situation they > are not trained to deal with. If you are going to mainstream problem children. and this is the case whether this particular kid is a problem kid or not, then they *should* be trained to deal with thse things. Jim apparently was... > In this day and age, where parents throw a fit if a teacher so much as > raises his/her voice at their precious little angels, it doesn't suprise me > at all that the teacher was too afraid to discipline the child. I am not sure it is even discipline that was called for. De-escalation would have been nice. Dana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Save $10 Download ZoneAlarm Security Suite http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=66 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:155345 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
