I came across this story via A Tiny Revolution:
A 5-year-old boy was handcuffed and hauled off to a psych ward for misbehaving in kindergarten – but the tot’s parents say NYPD school safety agents are the ones who need their heads examined.
‘School safety agents’? Handcuffs? Psych ward? Christ on a hang-glider.
I am always reluctant to infer anything about a societal tendency from comments posted on a weblog or a newspaper article, but I couldn’t resist highlighting a few of those that appear on this one:
we as citzens act like it’s so terrible that the child was handcuffed, it has been proven he has a patterrn of misconduct
How can someone yet to learn how to tie shoelaces be said to have a pattern of misconduct?
Maybe if us parents better control our kids then outside authorities will not be forced to make a disicion on whether to handcuff this kids.
Poor authorities: always having to make the decisions for us!
Last week one 5 year old made a pistol gesture of shooting my wife in the head, she is actually afraid to go back and fears for our child.
Eh….
I was not there so I do not know if cuffing the kid was needed.
Yes, statistically speaking, of the millions of 5 year olds the world over, there are bound to be some to be bound. Some of them are 6 ft 5 and carry machetes.
The kid doesnt have like an angel face if you really look closely
They should develop a profiling system to detect little devils early. Nurses performing headlice checks could also look out for the number of the beast.
Stop the cuddling & limp-wrist-pansy ca-cah. WE were spanked since Biblical times;
I wish people would quit the whinnying about ethnic cleansing. WE have been doing it since we did it to the Canaanites.
Seems like the newspaper is attempting to bias the reading towards the childs side.
At last – a voice of sanity! We need to hear both sides of the story here. As a general observation, we never get to hear enough about the rapist’s side of the story either.
The VAST majority of scientists, top surgeons, world leaders throughout the world, etc were also spanked & they turned out OK.
General Suharto was spanked. And he lived to 86!
Everyone wants to defend the poor little 5 year old, but what solutions are you offering?
It’s all very well to say you’re against cannibalism. But if you’re not putting forward serious suggestions about what cannibals should eat instead, I’m afraid you’re part of the problem.
To put the police in a situation where they had to restrain a young boy is unacceptable.
The police are the ones I feel really sorry for.
If I ever cut up at home I would get my a$$ beat, which is why I would never act up in school because then a phone call home would get me a triple a$$-whippen. It’s a cruel part of childhood, but necessary.
The police should be going after the real criminals: the ones who never beat their chilluns’ asses.
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