Should pepper spray the parents too!

[mitt]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_child_pepper_sprayed

If the kid can't behave, get him out of school.  "The world needs ditch diggers too"


mitt

[the_Journeyman]

I'm very close to finding a career that doesn't involve education.  I get kids like this when they become teenagers.

JM

[Mother]

remember when children were seen and not heard interviewed by a news agency when they throw a temper tantrum?

I'm pro corporal punishment

[Randimus Maximus]

this was a very interesting topic around the water cooler at the office today.

probably a little more so since there were parents of children near that age and our proximity to where this incident took place.

most were of the same opinion the OP.

[Buckethead]

That. Shit. Hurts.

But it wears off after a while with no long-term effects except for a natural aversion to whatever you were doing right before you got sprayed. Pavlov's dogs and all that.

If he's taking his teacher and the rest of his class hostage, then I don't think they were out of line at all. Hell, I'd have led with the pepper spray and followed up with the Taser.

Maybe a flash-bang is in order for next time?

[Bigbore4]

In my day the shop teacher doled out the discipline.  The wood shop teach had a paddle hanging up front.  It had 42 one inch holes bored through the critical interface. We behaved.

[sno_duc]

The article stated that the little "angel" has been transfered to another school.

May I suggest Singapore.     a couple of years there, he'll learn how to behave

[sbrguy]

that is awesome!!!

that kid so deserved it they should have tazed him and his mother for fun.  sorry but a kid that may potentially seriously injure or kill other kids with a weapon on purpose and they don't put it down when told to by the teacher or police should be tazed or pepper sprayed.

how would you explain to another parent tht their kid is now blind because you didnt subdue a kid that was threatening others with a weapon? 

not all kids are innocent and nice.

[The Bacon Junkie]

I'm a teacher and it amazes me how far some parents' heads are up their own butts.

In the classroom, if another child is harming or trying to harm another child, we take that child out of the situation.  Granted, all you usually need to redirect a two year old and diffuse a situation is something shiny, but an older child with a weapon?!  Sorry, but like the cop in the article says... If they didn't spray him, they would have had to restrain him physically, and the possibility of the kid sustaining greater injuries would have been higher.

Boo to the mom... All of your righteous indignation does nothing but prove to everyone what a useless parent you are.  Take responsibility for your own (in)action, and the behavior of your son.  The kid even admitted at the end that he probably deserved it! 

When I was a kid and I did something knuckleheaded, I got what I deserved in terms of punishment, and I knew I deserved it.  I knew what was coming and I weighed out the action vs. the punishment.  It helped me develop my critical thinking and reasoning skills. 

[IZ]

   LOVE IT!!

not all kids are innocent and nice.

Teachers should have pepper spray on hand as well.  TX still allows corporal punishment.  Austin residents are trying to fight it now though.  

A few years back, I worked at a school for socially & emotionally impaired students.  The age range was 5-22 years old and most  of the teen-aged students were gang-bangers.  All of them were like the kid in the story though.  Hell..my first day, one student put a desk through a window.  Luckily, it happened just after we evacuated the portable.  There were panic buttons in each room to alert security.  When security came, the student was typically put into an arm bar and taken to a padded room.  On occasion, we had kids taken out of school in handcuffs and one was even pepper sprayed.      

[Stinky Wizzleteats]

Euthanase the kids and the parents.

Problem solved.

[The Architect]

My heart goes out to all those hard working teachers. 



edit:  I just watch the news video clip, they should have pepper sprayed the mom too.

Where has commonsense gone? 

[Slide Panda]

"When asked about the pepper spray and what he did, Aidan said: "I kind of deserved it.""
Shit yeah you did... Little ass

[Drjones]

The Entitlement Generation at work. 

If I would have tried that crap when I was 8 the teacher would've dragged me by the ear outside of class and beat my butt with a paddle.  Then I would be taken to the pricipals office where my butt would be beat with a paddle.  Then when I got home my parents would beat my butt with a paddle.

[Goat_Herder]

I don't know what the home life is like for the mom and kid.  But she does seem like an enabler who let the kid get his way all the time.  When school/teacher tries to install some discipline in his life, he acts out. The mom then blames the school...  sigh.  Instead of pills, this kid is in dire need of some hardcore spanking.  And where is the dad in this story?!?!?