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I wish news agencies could figure their shit out.

I've read one article that states that the school resource officer in this situation was at that school all day every day and wasn't called --- he was already there.

I've read another article that states he was a school resource officer that split his time between three schools that are close together there and was at another one when the incident occurred and was called there.

So which is it?

I still maintain that I've dealt with some of the worst kids you can possibly deal with and I've never needed or wanted to put cuffs on them or call the police to put cuffs on them and take them away - especially a little six-year-old. If you can't handle a six year old then don't work with kids. I've had training in physically restraining a child with autism that would self injure and I've pulled that move ONCE on a boy who didn't have autism but was bigger than me and going after my wife, but I've never needed or wanted the police to get involved. And I homeschool every single child of school age that comes through my door so I've never had issues with a school or expected them to handle any kid in my care.

I homeschool all of them ... the ones that arrive addicted to drugs or withdrawing. The ones that are pregnant or recently had a child that was taken from them. The ones that hoard food, cut themselves, come onto adults sexually, come on to each other sexually, can't read at fifteen, damage my property, fight my kids, fight me, shove me, hit me, and more. I've ADOPTED twins who were passed around sexually by their bio family to one another and friends so often that my daughter had a hysterectomy before she was in the double digits age-wise. The boy I restrained? That's now my son, one of the twins. I know damaged kids. I know them well because I was one with a similar story to the twins. There is a right way and a wrong way to deal with damaged kids.

You can use your words to deescalate just about any situation you find yourself in. If you need to physically restrain a child from harming themselves or someone else then go for it but the little girl in that video was calm, she wasn't fighting, she wasn't threatening anyone or being bad at the time he cuffed her. She was remorseful, apologetic, agreeable and asking/begging for a second chance. At the point he cuffed her ... it wasn't required to do so. The situation seemed to have passed.

The school could have suspended her and called someone from her family to come get her. They could have put her in some sort of isolation like in school suspension for the rest of the day if no family could come get her and then suspended her out of school for several days after that. There were options available. It sounds like the school didn't want her cuffed and stuffed but the bragging officer - who had a very lengthy disciplinary history including abusing his own kid from what I've read - enjoyed being the total authority over tiny kids. Made him feel big in the trousers, I think.