My questions is why in the world were the POLICE called to calm an angry SIX YEAR OLD CHILD? Is anyone askign themselves this question. Maybe its the parents, maybe the setting, the school, or the teacher, but why would the authorities be called to calm a SIX YEAR OLD CHILD. This is absolutely outrageous. If there are laws that forbid teachers and staff of doing anything physically they must be overlooked simply beacuse of the fact that in a world where so much else is going wrong there cannot possibly be time for any government to allow any legal action to be taken out against a school that physically stops this kid. There are so many other ways of taking care of this, and concerning the other kids in the class, i think it doesnt entirely teach the kids to act the same, every kid can interpret it differently depending on how he or she grew up. One kid could as easily be indifferent as the other could be interested to do the same.
She's six. unbelievable.
Maybe they were shit scared of touching her. Let's just say she is black, based on the names. If the teachers physically restrain her themselves, they run the risk of being accused of all sorts of shit, and the accusation alone will fuck their lives completely for months or years
I'm sitting here with a stinking headache cos I got a letter today as a follow-up to an accusation of racial discrimination. Their oringinal accusations did not wash, so now they have added a pile of complete lies, which I now have to defend myself against. The "concilliation " I will have to attend will be so stacked against me that anything I say to defend myself will be perceived as further evidence of racism. I will probably have to cough up somewhere between $2000 -$5000 for nothing, just the mistake of being in the same room as an unemployed alcoholic who sniffed the chance of some more drinking money.
So much easier to call the cops and let them handle it. I'd do teh same thing, and who cares if it is over-reaction. The system just fucks you over if you are white and a black person accuses you of any shit.
What I want to know is why the girl needed to be hand cuffed. I can understand restraining the girl because she is out of control. A child throwing an extreme fit can hurt themselves or even another child, but hand-cuffs. I would think that a full grown adult, specially one trained in restraining people like police officers are, can do this to a 6 year old without having to use cuffs.
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What I want to know is why the girl needed to be hand cuffed. I can understand restraining the girl because she is out of control. A child throwing an extreme fit can hurt themselves or even another child, but hand-cuffs. I would think that a full grown adult, specially one trained in restraining people like police officers are, can do this to a 6 year old without having to use cuffs.
Yeah, I completely agree. It's a wonder they didn't taser her first.
What I want to know is why the girl needed to be hand cuffed. I can understand restraining the girl because she is out of control. A child throwing an extreme fit can hurt themselves or even another child, but hand-cuffs. I would think that a full grown adult, specially one trained in restraining people like police officers are, can do this to a 6 year old without having to use cuffs.
it goes back to accountability and procedure...if the procedure is to use the police you have to use that route (no matter how stupid it seems; and I think the teacher should have that option)...if you don't follow procedure you can be fired, or held accountable for anything that happens to the student. If you follow procedure you have the backing of the policy, the school board and you are allowing a trained professional to restrain them rather than a teacher. My guess is the rules are written for the older students but apply to all ages.
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(CBS) NEW YORK In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.
The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.
"I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Fraser's mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.
Police confirm that that's exactly what's written on her arrest record and for the crime, she's been charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti. Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom.
Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.
"It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they're going to label me as a bad kid. But I'm really not," Fraser said. "I didn't know writing 'Okay' would get me arrested."
"All the kids were ... watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four -- they had four police officers -- walking them out, handcuffed," Silva said. "She goes to me, 'Mommy, these hurt!'"
The students were taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. "MY child is 13-years-old -- doesn't it stand that I'm supposed to be present for any questioning?" Silva said. "I'm watching my daughter, she's handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, 'Yes.'"
(CBS) NEW YORK In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen's arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote "Okay" on her desk.
The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.
"I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Fraser's mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.
Police confirm that that's exactly what's written on her arrest record and for the crime, she's been charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti. Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom.
Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.
"It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they're going to label me as a bad kid. But I'm really not," Fraser said. "I didn't know writing 'Okay' would get me arrested."
"All the kids were ... watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four -- they had four police officers -- walking them out, handcuffed," Silva said. "She goes to me, 'Mommy, these hurt!'"
The students were taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. "MY child is 13-years-old -- doesn't it stand that I'm supposed to be present for any questioning?" Silva said. "I'm watching my daughter, she's handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, 'Yes.'"
Seriously, WTF!
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Maybe they were shit scared of touching her. Let's just say she is black, based on the names. If the teachers physically restrain her themselves, they run the risk of being accused of all sorts of shit, and the accusation alone will fuck their lives completely for months or years
I'm sitting here with a stinking headache cos I got a letter today as a follow-up to an accusation of racial discrimination. Their oringinal accusations did not wash, so now they have added a pile of complete lies, which I now have to defend myself against. The "concilliation " I will have to attend will be so stacked against me that anything I say to defend myself will be perceived as further evidence of racism. I will probably have to cough up somewhere between $2000 -$5000 for nothing, just the mistake of being in the same room as an unemployed alcoholic who sniffed the chance of some more drinking money.
So much easier to call the cops and let them handle it. I'd do teh same thing, and who cares if it is over-reaction. The system just fucks you over if you are white and a black person accuses you of any shit.
Edited to "corrent" my typing.
and before people start whinging about "child abuse", a little smack never hurt anyone........
haha, i just realised what i typed. by smack, i of course mean "a clip around the ears", etc....
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Yeah, I completely agree. It's a wonder they didn't taser her first.
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it goes back to accountability and procedure...if the procedure is to use the police you have to use that route (no matter how stupid it seems; and I think the teacher should have that option)...if you don't follow procedure you can be fired, or held accountable for anything that happens to the student. If you follow procedure you have the backing of the policy, the school board and you are allowing a trained professional to restrain them rather than a teacher. My guess is the rules are written for the older students but apply to all ages.
The "suspect," Chelsea Fraser, says she's sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.
"I'm appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you're taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?" Fraser's mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.
Police confirm that that's exactly what's written on her arrest record and for the crime, she's been charged with criminal mischief and the making of graffiti. Fraser says the day she marked her desk, she was wrongly grouped together with troublemakers who had plastered stickers all over the classroom.
Fraser was arrested at the Dyker Heights Intermediate School on March 30 along with three other male students. She says she was made to empty her pockets and take off her belt. Then she was handcuffed and led out of the school in front of her classmates and placed in the back of a police car.
"It was really embarrassing because some of the kids, they talk, and they're going to label me as a bad kid. But I'm really not," Fraser said. "I didn't know writing 'Okay' would get me arrested."
"All the kids were ... watching these three boys and my daughter being marched out with four -- they had four police officers -- walking them out, handcuffed," Silva said. "She goes to me, 'Mommy, these hurt!'"
The students were taken to the 68th Precinct station house where Silva says they were separated for three hours. "MY child is 13-years-old -- doesn't it stand that I'm supposed to be present for any questioning?" Silva said. "I'm watching my daughter, she's handcuffed to the pole. I ask the officer has she been there the entire time? She says, 'Yes.'"
Seriously, WTF!
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde