AllieBaba
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- Oct 2, 2007
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Isolating a child will keep that child and other children safe. In detention facilities there are rooms (the old-fashioned term, "padded cell") where children who are out of control are taken. They are put in there, their clothes are taken so they don't hang themselves, and they are left until they are finished with their fit or until they are sedated or further restrained. But I honestly doubt most classrooms are set up for effective, safe "isolation" in the case of an out-of-control child. There are windows, objects they can throw, objects that can cut, stab, choke. And I'm not talking about cutting, stabbing or choking others. I'm talking about the kid doing it to herself. I'm thinking that most teachers aren't equipped or trained to deal with this level of behavior. But anybody who is hired as a CO for kids SHOULD be.
You don't know what was going on with this girl. Don't assume she was having a simple grade-school tantrum. It's quite possible she was completely and insanely out of control.
Also don't make the mistake of thinking that tasing is an effective, safe or useful restraint for children. Particularly children who may have brain issues. Children are extremely susceptible to electricity. It doesn't take much of a shock to completely stop the hearts of some children, and to further jumble their already malfunctioning brains.
In other words, the girl was out of control and she needed to be restrained, let's assume. The guard should have been comfortable doing that without the taser. Tasers are for 200 lb. men who are drunk and charging upon arrest, not 11 year old girls who are out of control (and charging) at school.
You don't know what was going on with this girl. Don't assume she was having a simple grade-school tantrum. It's quite possible she was completely and insanely out of control.
Also don't make the mistake of thinking that tasing is an effective, safe or useful restraint for children. Particularly children who may have brain issues. Children are extremely susceptible to electricity. It doesn't take much of a shock to completely stop the hearts of some children, and to further jumble their already malfunctioning brains.
In other words, the girl was out of control and she needed to be restrained, let's assume. The guard should have been comfortable doing that without the taser. Tasers are for 200 lb. men who are drunk and charging upon arrest, not 11 year old girls who are out of control (and charging) at school.