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Originally Posted by martinguerre
No, becuase it's beyond reason to make these comparisons. If you think that the same standards ought to apply to twenty year olds and 5 year olds, i for damn sure hope you don't work at the department of moter vehicles or voter registration.
Claiming this is a slippery slope is lazy thinking, plain and simple. We make distinctions all the time. We have ideas and values about what is appropriate responses to children of different ages.
If a 2 month old spits in your eye, you cuss under your breath, clean it up, and call them "cutie pie." If a 20 year old does that, you've probably got a fight on your hands. The maturity of the child creates the intention and the ability to hold them accountable for their actions.
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Perhaps, but a five-year-old is capable of communicating and knowing that the behavior is unacceptable, I've been teaching that to my children since before they could walk and you can ask my 5-year-old what happens if she misbehaves and she will tell you.
This child has no grasp on the consequences of her action and I would venture to guess that her parent/parents have been absolving her of responsibility for her entire life using the excuse "she's only a kid." They have to start learning sometime, and in this case it's gone long enough that the only possible lesson thanks to the limitations placed on the teachers had to be delivered by the police handcuffing her.
You say that the handcuffing was unnecessary, what would you have used as an alternative that didn't require intervention and that the teacher had not already attempted?