Is handcuffing a 6-year-old the right way to discipline a kindergartner?

10 Comments

  • Jonathan Marshall - 12 years ago

    First off, i would like to say it's not the system who took prayer and paddling out of the school, it is the ignorant a** parents that voted it out of the schools. Second, for all of you that voted no need your a** whoop because apparently you never have your a** whooped growing up for doing things you don't have any business doing! If that was my child, i would beat his or her butt right there in the classroom or office.Trust me, i have done it before and it made other kids respect their parents because they were scare they parents might do it. So heck yeah! Handcuff 'em and let the parent beat they a**! We got whippings with hose pipes, clothes hangers and anything our parent got their hands on and we turned out just fine!

  • Nate - 12 years ago

    I am a school Officer. The children get so far out of control that you have no other recourse but to handcuff and restrain. This is the best method for the child's safety and to prevent injury. The next time I have an unruly child, the people that are against it, I will call you for your assistance. The end.

  • Rev. Terry Williams - 12 years ago

    I feel that it was the right thing to do. Why? Because now days you can not put your hands on a child after this happen it might have taught her a lesson. Now the aunts stated that she always act like that all the time. It start from home and spread abroad if the parents would discipline at home then they would not have to worry about the child being arrested. Take responsibility for what these kids do and stop making excuses for them.

  • Riser - 12 years ago

    I bet she will never do that again cuz she knows the consequences if that's what had to happen for her to get rite so be it more then likely no child at that school will do something like that because they knw the police are on the way

  • Sam - 12 years ago

    I am mother and work in a school setting. According to the video report, the student assaulted the principal/school official, damaged other people's property, and tried running away. They tried contacting the parent/guardian several times, with no answer or luck. They didn't arrest her but they did restrain her until her aunt came to get her. My own kids know not to go to school and act like they don't have any sense. So what would have been better....time out???? That's what's wrong with some kids these days, parents allow them to act like they're grown until they get out of hand then wonder what to do about it. This can give her a real look of what will happen if she continues on this path of disrespectfulness and destruction. At 6, I knew not to even raise my hand to an adult let alone assault them, but my parents taught me that!

  • blackdove76 - 12 years ago

    But, if that was the only way untill the parents arrived to keep the child safe.another story.

  • Alexnmind - 12 years ago

    I hate children that throw tantrums. I think I hate the parents that let the children behave this way more. Handcuffing this child didnt harm her in anyway. I hope the child is embarrassed as much as the parent is. Notice I said parent.....

  • Mz.Diamond - 12 years ago

    Well I blame the system for takin prayer and disicpline out of the school. Just imagine if the child pulls the same crap at home, the way the system is u cant beat me I will call dcf for child abuse. So why should they fear the teacher or any adult. Now they see the system backfiring so what are they going to do about it. But for me in my household I dare you to act a fool. I have zero tolerance I was raised to respect my stuff as well as the other individual.

  • tonda - 12 years ago

    that is really sad, would them do they own child like that.

  • cece - 12 years ago

    I'm an assistant principlal at a Detroit Public School and a mother, and I totally disagree with handcuffing a 6 yr old child as discipline. Did any one try calling the child's mother before calling the police? Secondly, if some would have physically restrained her, such as holding her down in a chair or grabbing her from behind it could have been justified the same way some people are justifying her being put in handcuffs. Ok so she's not afraid of her teacher or principal and being handcuffed and detained at 6 yrs old she probably won't be afraid of that anymore either. I would have sat her little tail down (trust me), called her moma in for some interventions with a social worker, & if that didn't work i would have called the police to escort them out of my school permanently. IJS i would have tried a few things myself before letting the police handcuff her. And yes teachers are underpaid , but we know what to expect when we accept that job offer and its a hard job, but somebody gotta do it. For some its a passion and for others its about a paycheck. We jus gotta figured out how to handle these "millenium babies" as i call them.

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