WTF is wrong with people? I’d like to hear the school stand by this one and explain it.
Poor kid.
Sorry. I don’t see the big deal.
There is someone in my daughter’s kindergarten class prone to tantrums. Mom left and Dad is raising her. She hasn’t seem Mom in months. She may have some additional issues (she is apparently very smart, just has some emotional maturity issues and perhaps some mental health ones). At least twice this year the girl has had - according to my daughter - room clearing tantrums. That is, the kindergarten teacher takes all the kids in to the hall while this girl lets loose, the social worker or principal come down and talk the girl down, then class goes on normally.
That seems like a more appropriate response.
This just came to light in yesterday’s paper. As far as I have heard the judge dismissed the charges, however there is still a child protection case aimed at the mother. As if this is her fault. She pulled her kids out of this district and moved about 50 miles away to another county.
Hopefully the lawyer will file suit and somebody will have to answer for this. Preferably County Prosecutor Paul Laggis who in my humble opinion is a total ass. This is not his first fuckup and unforunately won’t be his last.
Unfortunately I can’t spell.
I assume jjimm is being funny. He is failing, of course, which is nothing new.
In fairness, I’d say there is a certain point where you need to remove the kid from the class rather than force the class to accommodate their disruptions. There’s a lot of potentially pertinent information missing from that article, such as whether the tantrum was a single occurence or a chronic problem, and whether the kid became so violent that he was in danger of harming himself.
However… three days in jail for a seven year old??? It blows me away that that could have even crossed anyone’s mind as an appropriate way to handle the situation, no matter what the particulars were. It’s shameful.
Maybe they should focus their resources on teaching spelling.
I have a co-worker from this area. This explains a lot about him.
You and me, we play on swings,
bodies all climbing on the jungle jims.
Color those pictures, Jill and her pail
throw a little fit, and you lands in jail
Isn’t there any middle ground anymore?
The subject heading of the OP is misleading. He wasn’t sent to jail for “crying” in school. But when you are a seven year old child, you shouldn’t spend three days in jail for throwing a tantrum and disrupting a class either.
We don’t know much about the nature of the tantrum and whether or not he was a danger to himself, other children or school property. Apparently, some of you have never seen the damage a seven year old in combat mode and without a parent present can do. For the sake of the other children and their learning environment, there needs to be a reasonable and immediate intervention of some sort, but not jail time in juvenile for more than a couple of hours.
If the tantrum was that severe, I would imagine that the kid would make himself sick before too long.
How can they legally keep a SEVEN year old in a fucking jail for three days? Jesus Christ, THESE are the people in charge of the law? I’d be damned fucking scared.
Genius!
Young child convict
That young child convict…
As a parent of two almost-7-year-old children, I can only say this: every time I hear a story about something absolutely idiotic and unassailable (pardon me, I mean ‘policy’) in public schools…like the ‘no tolerance’ drug policies that won’t let a kid eat a piece of candy that looks like medicine, much less actually take medicine, even medicine they need (like asthma inhaler)…
(And I’m sure you’ve all read stories like this out of the news…kids expelled over medicine-shaped candy, kids who die because the no tolerance rules won’t let them use their inhalers, or who get suspended over a drawing of a space-man gun…or whatever)
I am so glad I have the chance to homeschool. Yeah, I’ll make some mistakes, but I won’t make them by committee, and I don’t have them down immutable where One-Size-Fits-All Rules Must Be Followed, Or Else.
That poor little boy.
- I apologise for that post; I admit it was ill considered and wasn’t indeed funny. 2. However, I didn’t know I have some kind of failed-humour reputation. Do elaborate!
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I don’t know what I expected when I saw this thread’s title, but holy fucking shit. I think I’m going to look into a vasectomy.
I laughed.
Well I guess some people are easy to please. 
Now, what, may I ask is the punishment for an ADULT in that town for causing a breach of the peace/public order offences? Would someone who, say, stood in the town square and yelled at the top of their lungs for an hour be held in jail for three days? Would they be eligile for bail? Could they pay a fine instead of being incarcerated?
Personally, I’m a fan of dolci incapax.
In the UK for example, children are only deemed legally responsible for their actions (no matter what the action might be) after the age of 14. Children under the age of 10 are deemed incapable of criminal intent. Chidren between 10-14 are not considered criminally responsible unless the prosecution can prove mens rea. Seems sensible to me.
The child was removed from the situation, and his mother wanted to take him home- there was no need for him to be detained or charged.
Good God, that’s horrible!
There are obviously some sick people in this world. But nobody directly involved saw any problem with this?