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Personally, if my children ever displayed behavior like this, serious discipline would be raining down at home. I watched the video (having heard only that a 5 year old had been handcuffed) completely ready to enter judgement against the school and the police. Then I watched what the girl was doing. She was 100% out of control. Punching, slapping, kicking, throwing crap around, pulling things down. And you know what, the school administrators can't stop her, because if they restrain her at all, lawsuit time. Should she have been restrained by the police. Hell yeah. As for slamming her on a table, puhlease. They used three cops specifically to restrain her without using undue force. I swear to god, if that was my child and I saw that video, I would be so completely embarassed, the last thing on my mind would be a lawsuit against the cops. And for those who keep saying "it was only a 5 year old" I ask you, how many of you have raised a child through age 5?
I have, and that is completely, and outright unacceptable behavior. That child was not acting like a typical 5 year old. And another thing, that mother needs to slapped around herself for even thinking of trying to sue over this. That child learned that behavior at home, no matter what you want to think. My kids don't turn into red-eyed, froth spewing demons when they walk out the door to go to school. Their behavior at school is an extension of how they have been raised at home. Culpability continues to disappear in this country.
And for the record, I have another child due this July, and she will also be raised to be a courteous and respectful child. It's learned at home people, and if you want to take all of the disciplinary rights away from the school, lets offer some other alternatives that could have been used in this scenario, and quit focusing on the "it was a 5 year old". God this thing pisses me off that the pathetic excuse of a mother may get cash out of this thing. Great fucking lesson for the "5 year old" to learn.
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