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Officer who arrested (yes, arrested 6 y.o.) suspended

Not true.

That is your opinion, my opinion is different. It also is really not the best way according to most/many experts to deal with disobedience, especially for a 6 year old.
 
Not true.

If you can't get a 6 year old child's attention by a spanking across the bum and you need a belt to accomplish it then you need to take your spaghetti arms down to the gym.
 
That is your opinion, my opinion is different. It also is really not the best way according to most/many experts to deal with disobedience, especially for a 6 year old.

Its not an opinion. Spanking is not illegal.
 
If you can't get a 6 year old child's attention by a spanking across the bum and you need a belt to accomplish it then you need to take your spaghetti arms down to the gym.

Didn't say it was right. Simply that its not illegal.

Its possible I misinterpreted what was being said by peter king.
 
US policeman suspended for arresting two six-year-olds - BBC News

How dare they! The girl should have been tazed. Electroshoxk therapy is good for you.
And the girl gets a nice picture to frame...

More proof that the police, retired or not, have no business in schools as 'resource' officers. Hire vets instead because they don't get butthurt when 6 y.o. don't listen.


A US police officer has been suspended after arresting two six-year-olds at a school in Orlando, Florida.
One of the two was handcuffed after throwing a tantrum and kicking a teacher, the girl's grandmother told US media.
The officer, Dennis Turner, was suspended as officials said he did not secure the necessary permissions to arrest the two.
Prosecutors say they will try to erase the arrests from their records.
Both children were charged with misdemeanour battery. Little about the other arrest - which was in a separate incident - has been made public.
"The children will not be prosecuted, and just as importantly I am looking into options that may reverse the legal damage such as removing the arrest from the children's records," said State Attorney Aramis Ayala in a news conference.
Police Chief Orlando Rolón said in a statement: "As a grandparent of three children less than 11-years-old this is very concerning to me. Our department strives to deliver professional and courteous service."
Neither child has been identified by police, but the grandmother of one of the children said she suffered sleep apnoea which had contributed to her behaviour.

Meralyn Kirkland told NBC that when she went to retrieve her granddaughter from jail, "they told us we had to wait a few minutes because [she] was being fingerprinted, and when she said fingerprinted it hit me like a tonne of bricks".

"No six-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them and they were riding in the back of a police car and taken to a juvenile centre to be fingerprinted, mug shot."
According to Orlando Police, Mr Turner was retired from the police force but was working as security in the school as part of the local department's reserve unit.

Schools have increasingly turned to hiring part-time officers since a series of deadly school shooting attacks, such as on Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

According to AFP, 46% of US schools have an officer present on campus for at least one day of each week.

This was the best thing that ever happened to the girl. Her parents will sue, the school district will pay and she will have enough money for college.
 
Religious people would likely disagree with you.

I do not really care about what they think when it comes to the welfare of children. Just like I do not care about refusal to vaccinate or treat their children's illnesses.
 
I had a 27 year career in being a public school teacher. I left the profession at 56 years old because of the insanity that is pervasive in US public schools.
What is happening in our schools isn't being reported. You are being lied to about it every day. Most of the lies are lies of omission. They just aren't telling you
how bad things have gotten.

This child was disrupting the learning of all the other children in that classroom. Want to bet that this kid was CONSTANTLY doing this? What would you have done
if this kid had been doing this every day? We are allowing disruptive students to run rampant in our schools and we aren't doing anything to stop it. What happened
to the idea that students have the responsibility to behave when they go to school?
 
If the law is broken, it is reasonable to call the police. One of my sons back when he was in elementary school was being bullied once and given the runaround by the principal, sneaked into the school secretary's office and called the police to file criminal harassment charges. The problem was solved.

The police shouldnt have been called to begin with. The school should have had guidelines and a process in place to handle that.
 
Here in Texas, they have that right specifically protected by law:

Texas Corporal Punishment in Public Schools Laws - FindLaw


If permitted by the board of trustees of a school district, a district educator may use corporal punishment to discipline a student. The exception to this rule is when a parents or guardians with custody or control of a child have previously provided a written, signed statement forbidding the use of corporal punishment to discipline the child.

A new written statement must be provided each year to the board of trustees of the district where the child attends school. At any point during the school year a parent or guardian may revoke the statement by providing a written, signed revocation.

nobody has the right to use a belt on a child, not even a parent.
 
This is very sad. The police need better training in deescalating situations. It seems their second nature is kicking ass, making arrests, and too often firing their weapons. Somebody needed to just calm the child down. The police need to be trained differently.

Why are they even interacting with a six year throwing a tantrum?
 
That is your opinion, my opinion is different. It also is really not the best way according to most/many experts to deal with disobedience, especially for a 6 year old.

It depends on a lot of factors. Most experts I find dont know jack **** because they dont live with the consequences. If I use corporal punishment I use a switch and have the child pick it. They usually at first pick the skinny ones that sting more. Let them pick their poison as it were. Corporal punishment should be rare. It should be known by the child your words are backed by deeds. Some children are more stubborn than others will attempt to test your metal. With those children I make sure the metal they test is Adamantine. I find if you say something and when pressed back up what you say, do what you say you will do every time and keep your words to a minimum children will self regulate for the most part. Explaining something once is all that is needed. I dont explain after that. One warning is it if, one is even given. The other thing is dont show anger, be cold and dispassionate when tested. Consistency is key. Children know when they are misbehaving for the most part. Children tend to find cracks and exceptions, and are more intelligent than most would think. What they lack is impulse control. Motivating them to control that impulse is your job as a parent.
 
If the law is broken, it is reasonable to call the police. One of my sons back when he was in elementary school was being bullied once and given the runaround by the principal, sneaked into the school secretary's office and called the police to file criminal harassment charges. The problem was solved.

What law was broken?
 
This was the best thing that ever happened to the girl. Her parents will sue, the school district will pay and she will have enough money for college.

Maybe I'm just cynical but I feel like the parents who can't teach their first grader how to behave in school and not assault a teacher wouldn't be likely to save a windfall of money for that same child's college education.
 
Maybe I'm just cynical but I feel like the parents who can't teach their first grader how to behave in school and not assault a teacher wouldn't be likely to save a windfall of money for that same child's college education.

It would be interesting to know how many children you have raised.
 
It would be interesting to know how many children you have raised.

I am raising one and she has been taught to have respect, behave in school, and not assault teachers.

Now I do not agree with the actions of the school or the police, they could have handled it much better but it's not a stretch to say many parents these days don't parent.
 
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