Police Handcuff 6 Year Old Girl for Misbehaving at School

"She has mood swings some days, which all of us had mood swings some days. I guess that was just one of her bad days that day," said Constance Ruff.

http://www.9news.com/news/world/263472/347/Police-handcuff-6-year-old-girl-for-misbehaving-at-school

Spare the rod, spoil the child. On the other hand I think calling the police is way over the top, the school should have more than one contact for a student. I wonder if Mommy is in the habit of ignoring calls from the school?

I was gonna post this a couple days ago. If you read the local news and more importantly the local comments...you will see that locally in GA, that they feel that this was quite appropriate and they lament that the principals don't just beat the kids anymore. Locally they want to throw the book at this little girl and nail the mom to a stake. A number of commenters pretty much said they would have beaten their kid senseless if they did this and that at 6, a person knows right from wrong (can you vote at 6 in GA, drink, join the military, have kids)?

So I think it was way over the top, but locally they do not.

Let's remember, we need to start arresting early if we are going to keep pace with locking up 6% of all Americans between 20 and 30.

Police and kids before puberty don't mix well, they are on different planets.

I think they need to come up with a different way to restrain children they are taking to the station in a police car. Something much gently.

I've never had a child who had a "bad day" such that he was tearing the house apart. Either this child has major mental problems or she just doesn't get the proper attention and discipline at home.

And, no, I don't believe in spanking, hitting, using a rod to discipline a child.

Got my butt tanned in school, learned the gold ruler.

I didn't read where they said what kind of handcuffs they were, mostly now they use zip ties and I think it was to protect the kid from hurting herself if she was prone to outbursts. I don't know, seems to me, schools and cops have their hands tied (pun intended) anymore... if they touch a kid, they get sued by the parents.

I don't think I am damaged from being spanked as a kid. I tell you what, when an adult told you to sit down, you did, no questions asked.

p.s. boy I hated that weeping willow that was in the backyard, glad we moved from that house when I was 5. ouch!

I'm on the side of teaching kids early about what is and is not ok, there are types of behavior that are not acceptable. If a child has no respect for their parents or authority figures then outbursts like the one in this story should be expected because the parents have neglected their children and failed to educate them about social norms and expected levels of decorum at home, in public, and at school. And yes, I do believe that a six year old can understand what is and is not permissible at a very basic level.

Should the school have to contact the parents and make them collect their child in a case like this? Today's values (or lack of them) dictates that the school must contact the parents immediately and then the police if they can't get a response from Mom or Dad. What is wrong with the Teacher correcting the child and then contacting the Principal if they can't control the child? I see nothing wrong with a Principal determining that a couple of swats on the posterior are appropriate along with a note going home to the parents indicating what happened and why the child was disciplined.

Truth be told, as a kid I was never more afraid of my parents reaction than when I had to bring home a note from school because of something I did wrong at school. The Principal had his "board of education" and five licks from that was plenty but Dad would make us kids walk out to the shed to get the razor strap. Worse, we all got speech 49 - Why What You Did Was Wrong - and then what Dad felt was the appropriate number of strokes with the razor strap to fit the crime. In later years I asked Dad why we always got the speech first and then the spanking, he explained that gave him time to calm down and consider the real impact of each incident before handing out the punishment. It was never about just getting a spanking either, extra chores would be assigned, and privileges like listening to the radio, watching TV, and going out to play would be restricted as deemed appropriate.

Suffice it to say if Mom, Dad, or any other adult told me to do something my first reaction was to do it because the consequence for not doing what I was told was not worth the benefits of an act of defiance. By today's definition I grew up as a battered and abuse child; I maintain that I grew up in a family that set boundaries, enforced rules and moral values, and taught me to respect my elders. Abused? Not by a long shot!

same here, dude...