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Police Ticket 10-Year-old for Disrupting Class
Ten-year-old kids get in trouble for disrupting class all the time. But has your school ever called the police on your kid for raising a stink in the classroom?
A ten-year-old with a behavioral disorder was woken up for napping during class by his teacher. Cranky and disoriented (his mom says the medicine for his disorder makes him sleepy), the kid walked out of the classroom when his teacher tried to restrain him. He ended up in the hall where he got noisy, then plopped himself on the floor and refused to get up.
Sounds like a kid who might have deserved a trip to the principal’s office – although the nature of his disorder might even make that extreme.
Instead, the school called the cops, who gave the boy a ticket for $260 and an order to appear in court. Which he did, along with mom Charity Walka who fought the ticket and had it thrown out.
Even if the kid was being a brat (again, not enough details on his disorder to tell if this was perhaps normal acting out of say a child on the autism spectrum), no one was injured. Is calling the cops called for?
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Teacher Treats Kid Like Dog for Punishment | Strollerderby commented on Oct 20 09 at 9:28 amBec commented on Oct 08 09 at 12:21 pmThis is really upsetting to me.
Lorraine commented on Oct 08 09 at 12:57 pmAnd these are the people who are educating our children???
Ali commented on Oct 08 09 at 2:46 pmYes, these are the people educating your children. They force parents to medicate them so they will fit in and then abuse them. Reason number 100 why I home educate.
Ben commented on Oct 08 09 at 7:17 pmthis is what happens when you take away every method a school has to discipline a child with.
Ali commented on Oct 08 09 at 7:29 pmWatch this and weep for your “good schools”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw
Alicia commented on Oct 08 09 at 7:55 pmThank you Ben. I am a teacher who has been at a school where the cops have had to be called on primary grade children. What exactly are teachers supposed to do when mentally unstable children are attacking them or other students? People are so for “inclusion” of all students in a regular education and “not medicating” their children for recognized mental or behavioral disorders. It is impossible to control some of them, and calling someone who can come in and haul the child somewhere where they cannot harm themselves or others can happen. Even children who don’t have a type of disorder can become violent or out of control. As Ben pointed out there is literally no way to discipline some children. I am not allowed to put children in time out, I am not allowed to deny them priveleges other students get, I am not allowed to deny them recess. I can send them to the office, where they sit at a desk and don’t work all day or I can suspend them, where they spend three days at home. What child doesn’t want that? I agree the child should not have received a ticket for this, but I think people should wait to comment before they have been placed in the position.
Lisa commented on Oct 08 09 at 9:30 pmPrecisely what do you expect us to do? We can’t expel them, we can’t suspend special ed students more than 10 days a year, we can’t enforce detentions, we can’t hold kids back. What do you expect us to do in this situation?
Nothing. We can’t make them get up and out of the hall. We can’t put them in a cage. We can only try to reason with them and once a defiant kid figures that out, there is nothing we can do to discipline them.
a person commented on Mar 03 10 at 9:32 pmthat is the stupedist thing i have ever herd and makes me mad!!!!!!!!!
Emily commented on Apr 02 10 at 7:39 pmIs it that hard to GET THE F-ING POIT THAT WHEN A KID HAS A DISORDER, HE’S GOING TO DO THAT! SERIOUSLY! WHAT WAS HIS CRIME? WHERE DID HE BREAK THE LAW? I DON’T SEE IT ANYWHERE IN HERE THAT DISRUPTING CLASS IS ILLEGAL, AND EVEN IF IT WAS, WHY DO YOU FINE A TEN YEAR OLD WITH A DISORDER $260 FOR IT?
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