Five Year Old Arrested in Florida
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"Certainly, she shouldn't have been arrested," Trevena told The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Monday. "There is certainly a better way of dealing with this situation. …The educators have available to them a number of resources: special counseling, alternative classes, special education. This girl should have been evaluated. She was identified as having problems. This child shouldn't be in the regular class if there was a problem."
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Essentially, a temper-tantrum-ing kindergarten child was taken into custody, and the mother has decided to sue over the incident. What do you guys think? I'm of two minds. It sure sounds like she was raising hell, but the arrest seems more than a little extreme. I just watched the mother's lawyer on the news, though, and he sure seems smarmy.
And since when do kids act out quite like this? Never had anything like that at my school...
Thoughts?