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Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school

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Re: Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

adamch wrote: post #2

I admit, when I moved to the US, I didn't expect "likelihood of arresting my children" to be a factor I'd need to consider in choosing schools.

This is making the news because it is outrageous (in the most literal sense of the word). If this were normal it wouldn't make the news.

Re: Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school

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Post by Ididntdothis »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #3
adamch wrote: post #2

I admit, when I moved to the US, I didn't expect "likelihood of arresting my children" to be a factor I'd need to consider in choosing schools.

This is making the news because it is outrageous (in the most literal sense of the word). If this were normal it wouldn't make the news.

From what I read this is not that rare. These cops get sent to a school and the only thing they know is to treat children like everybody else. So if they don’t comply force will be applied.

Re: Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school

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Post by ars »

adamch wrote: post #2

I admit, when I moved to the US, I didn't expect "likelihood of arresting my children" to be a factor I'd need to consider in choosing schools.

It's not a factor. This is utterly bizarre and horrifying in the US. It's in the news because it is far far from normal.

She's 6, even if she needs arresting (and that's a rather big "if" there), she's tiny, she doesn't need handcuffs.

The person who did that needs to have their head checked. From the video they did not appear to be wantonly cruel, they appeared to be some sort of rule following robot, without a brain that says "wait - she's 6, let's not do that".

But this is not some normal thing in the US.

Re: Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school

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Post by tapland »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #3
adamch wrote: post #2

I admit, when I moved to the US, I didn't expect "likelihood of arresting my children" to be a factor I'd need to consider in choosing schools.

This is making the news because it is outrageous (in the most literal sense of the word). If this were normal it wouldn't make the news.

Well. That guy the news is about has arrested multiple kids that age and that was fine? And arresting kids for misbehaving, with multiple adults being around, was apparently fine by them?
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