In some states, your 6-year-old child can be arrested. Advocates want that changed

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13. My DIL is a special ed teacher, and some of the children

can become violent. A teacher was hospitalized last year after a young child managed to knock her unconscious, jumping repeatedly on her, landing with his whole weight on her head and body. He's large for his age and had learned how to use his weight as a weapon. It's not the first time, just the first time his teacher was hospitalized.

There are other stories with other children. The teachers have protective gear available if they have time to don it, and there are procedures in place defining when one teacher shouldn't try to control a child alone, etc. By far most of the time class isn't like this, of course, but bites and so on are not uncommon.

No doubt police can be called if necessary. In GA a 6-year-old cannot commit a crime so can't be arrested for it, but there are juvenile laws regarding unruly behavior and being delinquent.

I don't know what the procedures actually are for when the special ed teachers and other district professionals can't establish workable control of a child, other than after a pattern of intractable problems is established transfer out of the elementary school setting to other special programs.