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Bayard

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5. WTF?!

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2023, 02:09 PM

Jan 2023

Teachers call the cops to deal with unruly first-graders? What happened to--Go stand in the corner! That happened to me one time. I whacked another girl over the head for stealing a picture my big sister had drawn for me. My shirt sleeve was soaking wet from crying into it.
And my mother always said--you get in trouble at school, you'll get it 10 times worse when you get home. It was a powerful motivator.

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In some states, your 6-year-old child can be arrested. Advocates want that changed [View all] Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 OP

Then there is the six year old that plugs the teacher. Sneederbunk Jan 2023 #1

Do you REALLY think Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #2

Yea, really, the six year old needs to be sent to state prison for life without parole! Chainfire Jan 2023 #4

Can the parents be trusted to supervise an attempted murderer? uncle ray Jan 2023 #6

Calling a 6 year old child an "attempted murderer" Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #7

And the kid shouldn't be arrested Bettie Jan 2023 #11

The system itself is violence. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2023 #3

WTF?! Bayard Jan 2023 #5

Ever since there have been cops in schools Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #8

This is so much more complicated than most non-teachers know... JT45242 Jan 2023 #9

Wow! I had no idea FakeNoose Jan 2023 #12

My DIL is a special ed teacher, and some of the children Hortensis Jan 2023 #13

In this particular case Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #10