So, theoretically, I should've been arrested 3 or more times by now? :p
I often had temper tantrums when I was small...

With the tantrums I had as a kid, I should still be locked up if I was arrested. oO

Eat him alive!

Dang, ain't this something? God only knows how many times I threw a temper tantrum as a child...
~Neo

This is why I advocate the eating of children.

Eat him alive!

Nice to see that Jonathan Swift's philosophy is alive and well.

In any case, this is ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than half the news items we see around here.

This says SO much for the state of society nowadays.

If the principal or other superior would have tried to take care of the child i.e. holding them down until the parents arrived, i'm sure that the parents would have sued them for child abuse anyway. It's a shame, really.

LOL...that is just way too funny. I wish they would do that more...kids can be some real onry, cruel, spoiled brats! I can't tell you how much I wanted to beat some little kid senseless because respect just wasn't a concept to him!

Tornadot should be a babysitter!

I was a babysitter. It's not as easy as it sounds to restrain a child, not by any means.

I had to do it more than once with one particular household... oo;;;

This is why corporal punishment is a necessary tool for parents.

Pain compliance works.

Jimro

I bet a little time in handcuffs will curb that kid's desire to ever throw a fit again. Now his parents have an instant threat that'll always work. "Settle down or I'll sic the police on you!"

i'd like to see some of you subdue some of the brats i've babysat over the years, i've even been bitten once!
oddly enough i was at one point one set of children's fave babysitter simply becuase i was the only one who 'got cross' if they didn't stay in bed. ^^;

as for this kid, handcuffs were a little too extreme as he's a minor. surely a 8 year old couldn't have gotten violent enough to need those?

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I bet a little time in handcuffs will curb that kid's desire to ever throw a fit again. Now his parents have an instant threat that'll always work. "Settle down or I'll sic the police on you!"

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hee, perhaps it might.

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In any case, this is ridiculous, but no more ridiculous than half the news items we see around here.

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Eat Dark Amoeba alive!

Anyway, or we could give him a ball. But then we kick it on to a motor/highway. Then we watch the crazy bastard go SPLAT!

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I bet a little time in handcuffs will curb that kid's desire to ever throw a fit again. Now his parents have an instant threat that'll always work. "Settle down or I'll sic the police on you!"

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It's funny, but that's exactly what my parents always told me when I was small and had a tantrum, my mom even pretended to be on the phone calling the police once. 😛
Sometimes she does the same with my little brother, but he has way less temper tantrums than I had.

...was arrested. That kid was arrested for assault as it even says in the article. Cooki's headline is misleading. ;p Once that kid started headbutting others, that's assault. Age doesn't matter. In schools, they will call the police if they can't restrain a kid--particularly one that's attacking teachers and/or the principal(s)--to avoid losing their jobs if they were to hit the kid back.

Adding onto illuminator's point, kids will throw that "you can't touch me" stuff at teachers/principals all the time and considering I've seen teachers and principals lose their jobs for restraining kids (who weren't hurt in the least--but they touched the kid & the parents sued & the district just gets rid of them to avoid any possible "bad" publicity) at times after they were attacked by a kid, I don't see a problem with what they did.

As for kicking him out of school, that's not always possible (if it's a public school) either depending on the rules of the state.

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Police arrested an 8-year-old boy who allegedly had a violent outburst in school, head-butting his teacher and kicking an assistant principal, when he was told he couldn't go outside to play with other students.

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W...T...F???

So what? He's only 8 years old. That isn't even old enough to be arrested. Not to mention what's there wasn't extreme anyway.

For cryin' out loud, you'd think with 8 year olds getting arrested for a single heat-butt and a single kick, that 10 year olds would AT LEAST get arrested for some of the super-extreme forms of bullying I've seen.

Really, when I was in... I think it was either grade 5 or 6, maybe both, people were freakin' throwing rocks at me. And in grade 5, there was one bully who was some days putting me up against the wall and kicking me. Did he get arrested? No. Why? He was too young. Heck, he didn't even get suspended. Not long after, I remember it was at the most innapropriate moment, when he was standing on a chair and I was really bent at getting back at him, so I knocked the chair over, causing him to fall. What did he do for revenge? Slammed my arm into a desk repeatedly, and kept on calling me worthless. Of course, in that case, I didn't even get in trouble, luckily for me he was the one who got in trouble, and all even he got was a lecture and detention. (If I remember correctly) Why wasn't he arrested? Again, was too young. [The following was edited in]And believe me, none of this is made up. This all exactly happened at my school, no lies about it. Not even exaggeration. In fact, if anything, it's an understatement, as I remember plenty more examples of people older than 8 years old commiting more extreme acts of assault than that and not getting arrested, that happened at my school.[The previous was edited in]

Now really, someone who's closer to being old enough to be arrested should be more likely to be arrested, not to mention how my example was much, much more extreme. The only difference that could possibly further justify the 8-year-old getting arrested is the fact that it was against the staff and not the students. Well, then again, I did forget another example of what could "possibly" apply to that...

That school was AMERICAN.

8 years old and he's already a violent spaz. Hopefully this woke up the kid's parents and they'll spend a little bit more time being... well, parents.

And they might lay off the E numbers with him...

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8 years old and he's already a violent spaz. Hopefully this woke up the kid's parents and they'll spend a little bit more time being... well, parents.

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I kinda agree with that part too...

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And they might lay off the E numbers with him...

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What do you mean by that?

Kind of reminds me from all the times I was suspended and expelled from Primary School for: Punching a teacher in the stomach for trying to force feed me jello, when I don't eat it; flooding the boys toilets to prove I can; "karate kicking a year 5" which I still to this day maintain is physically impossible for me to have done and such.

Dang I wish I made national news for beating up a teacher, that would have been so cool!

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Kind of reminds me from all the times I was suspended and expelled

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All... the... times? O_O Doesn't getting expelled mean you can't come back to school again at all after that, whereas suspended means you were just kept out of classes for a few weeks?

I should have been arrested for the time where I attempted to beat a kid with a desk...

Okay, so I wasn't strong enough to beat beat with it, but I left a few bruises, and only got in-school suspention. (Work in the office, I was able to finish a week's homework in there, I was happy. )

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Once that kid started headbutting others, that's assault. Age doesn't matter.

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In the UK, under-10s can't be criminally liable. I assume there's something similar in the US, so it does matter.
However, I'd call this particular case probably an overreaction in calling the police. I'd need to see some pretty compelling evidence to the contrary to convince me otherwise...

Mind you, a 10-year-old in my area became the youngest person ever in the uk to get an antisocial behaviour order recently. I wouldn't say it's impossible for a child to have to have legal enforcement against them... just very, very rare.

By the way, when Xagarath Ankor quoted True Red, it reminded me...

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Once that kid started headbutting others, that's assault. Age doesn't matter.

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What about my previous examples?

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In the UK, under-10s can't be criminally liable. I assume there's something similar in the US, so it does matter.

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There isn't. It will vary by state. That's why age doesn't matter unless the state itself makes it matter. Virginia probably doesn't and I don't think many do. Younger kids than 8 years old have been arrested for things. Of course, there is a difference in terms of where an 8 year old would go versus someone who's a teenager or an adult--but that has nothing to do with arresting.

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What about my previous examples?

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You already noted the difference. Kids attacking adults would make police presence more likely since if the adults touch the kid, the adults are risking their jobs. Kids can do what they want to each other without needing to notify the police as that adults can touch kids to break up kids fighting (or whatever). Adults aren't allowed to defend themselves from kids in public schools in the U.S. (and most kids know this which is why if the kid also has a parent that doesn't like the teacher/principal they even have to be more careful). Only when the kids are going at each other can adults touch them (and even then, it depends on the parent of the kids)--so they won't need the police. If the kid is attacking the adults, then the police might be necessary (unless some other kid restrains the kid or the kid stops on their own).

I deal with kids in school a lot and based on what was given, I wouldn't consider the arresting an overreaction. This kind of stuff happens at least once every school year where I am. It wouldn't make the news because it's so "common" and I don't consider it a big deal.

I remember the time I climed up onto a ledge about sixty feet up and sat there reading all breaktime while teachers implored me to come down.

I was eight years old at the time.

Poor you. Just... Don't do it again.

when i read that article, i instantly said-

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