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Originally Posted by smooth
liquidlight,
Not only did I watch the entire video, I showed it to a class full of univeristy students last night. You may think that leaving a child alone in that room is unacceptable, but that's no reason to discard my point unless you believe that was the only room available to place her in.
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But
that's not what you said. Putting the child in isolation is completely different than leaving her in a place that she could cause further damage to public/private proprty and/or herself.
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Originally Posted by smooth
Ignoring it and it going away, whatever else it may have done, was not a factor in this situation as evidenced by the police officer's own statement that he had been involved in previous incidents. In fact, that singular statement bolsters my point that police intervention is having the opposite effect people in here think it would have.
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You are absolutely right. I don't believe the
school or the
police ignoring her is the problem.
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Originally Posted by smooth
In regards to point 2, rather than rolling your eyes at my statement, you would do better to reread it and realize that was directed at parents in this thread. The first sentence clearly distinquishes, to my mind, between restraining a child and "fondling" one. Why would you malign my point to reflect that of a pedophile? That makes very little sense to me and doesn't really add to the discussion, in my opinion.
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Simply because someone who shares your side of the discussion already hinted at it. And yet you failed to admonish them, which in itself is very telling.