I believe all of the proper steps were taken to handle this prior to the officer coming into the classroom. This student was given multiple chances and refused to comply. Perhaps I'm a bit bias this week because I was hit/kicked/and very close to being bitten by a student multiple times this week because he refused to comply my instructions to 1. Stop hitting other students 2. Stop climbing on furniture and walking across desks 3. Stop taking things that don't belong to you. At one point we both fell over because this 5 year old was able to knock my 200lb+ body to the ground. Had someone been taping that at the right angle it could have looked like I took him down, I promise you that was very much not the case. In this video it appears to me that the girl rocked the chair back while trying to avoid the officer detaining her. But that is my opinion. I don't think she should've been dragged across the floor following that at all. That was not the right move on the officers part. Think of me as you may, but the student was not 100% innocent.
Amen, budders. I've mostly worked in low income schools and although my mentor was amazing during my internship, I've lacked that since then. We constantly say we need more professional development in behavior management, but it's lacking. My principal last year basically told me to figure it out on my own dealing with disruptive/defiant students and I had a horrible year. I felt like the worst teacher ever last year because I couldn't get their behavior in line.
However disruptive our kids in that school were (& a teacher was taken out by an ambulance once when a kid threw a desk at her), none were ever thrown to the ground. Several people were trained with how to do proper restraining methods, and if you could actually get them to come to your room (because it never was just one classroom having a crisis), that's what they'd do.
I'm really happy to be at my affluent suburban school this year. I followed a kid with a "behavior problem" a bit yesterday and his "problem" was he couldn't stay on task/required prompting and at one point he flicked a dead fly at a classmate. His teacher just complained about him all lunch period and I had to try really hard to roll my eyes.
If any part of your brain responds to a police officer physically violently trashing a child around with any ounce of question about what the child was doing beforehand, get your head checked, cause you've got it twisted. Who the fuck cares what she was doing? Not the point. Not part of this issue. Doesn't matter in this conversation. You're simply finding another way to excuse your feelings and continue to turn a blind eye to the glaring truth that people of color are by and large treated differently (ie with less respect for their humanity, less patience, less leniency, quicker to judgment and quicker to innapropriate violent conduct) by law enforcement. DUH. But lets just keep talking about how she should have been behaving herself or he wouldn't have had to come in there and treat her body like a ragdoll... you make me want to vomit.
"Respect your elders, and those of authority and sh*t like this would never happen." Are you serious with this?
Sounds a whole lot like "Don't wear a tight skirt and you won't get sexually assaulted." I call bullshit. You know why? Cause it is bullshit! How about "Screen the shit out of your security officers for a history of violence and tendency toward a nature of sexist/racist/homophobic/general assholishness and things like this would never happen."
This is late, but here's one I think is pretty unpopular... I'm not dressing my baby up for Halloween. She's not going trick or treating, and we aren't going to a party, so I don't really see the point of spending money on a costume she will wear for 5 minutes to take a picture. I DO think that all of the costumes are cute though!
I felt the same way and almost didn't either, but then the crafy bug took me over the other day. Plus I felt left out with all her cousins/my siblings doing fun halloween pictures and she had no costume. So I caved last minute!
This is late, but here's one I think is pretty unpopular... I'm not dressing my baby up for Halloween. She's not going trick or treating, and we aren't going to a party, so I don't really see the point of spending money on a costume she will wear for 5 minutes to take a picture. I DO think that all of the costumes are cute though!
I didn't dress up T. He doesn't care. But I am LOVING the halloween thread. So many adorable babies!!
This is late, but here's one I think is pretty unpopular... I'm not dressing my baby up for Halloween. She's not going trick or treating, and we aren't going to a party, so I don't really see the point of spending money on a costume she will wear for 5 minutes to take a picture. I DO think that all of the costumes are cute though!
I didn't dress up T. He doesn't care. But I am LOVING the halloween thread. So many adorable babies!!
I didn't either. I bought a monkey costume for her but it was 90 degrees yesterday so she ended up just wearing a normal tank dress.
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