Milledgeville (GA) Police Handcuff 6-Year-Old Girl for Misbehaving at School

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47. I don't think that is the first rule at all.

Perhaps it is the rule of the location in which your wife is. Some school districts do have no-touch rules. And certainly some organizations/institutions that serve children and youths do.

It isn't a rule where I live. Or anywhere that I have taught. Or the districts in which my students have typically taught. I have often used a "letter writing" assignment concerning no touch policies as an exercise in child guidance courses - I write that to only say I am familiar with the concept.

It isn't a law in the state of Georgia by any means. As I also said before, corporal punishment is perfectly legal in Georgia.

There are also good samaritan laws that protect one from lawsuits when one is trying to protect someone else from being harmed. Which would be the actions in this case - as I said, I would intervene if there was a need to protect the child from harming themselves.

Also professional training and judgement are buffers against such litigation, and as I mentioned I have had training in this area.

I have had to restrain children before, in a variety of settings.

You asked me to be specific in what I would do, and I took the time to write that up for you. But then your replies just seemed sort of short and sniping.

As I mentioned above, I have had specific training in this sort of area.

I'm going to put a link to my vita here, the only reason is to say I do know something about the subject -
http://www.utc.edu/Faculty/Darrell-Meece/MeeceVita2008.pdf