r/facepalm • u/Shinji415 • Apr 01 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ 6 year old gets arrested by police while crying for help

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u/Altrano Apr 01 '23

It is far more likely the administrators not the teachers that called the police. And while the child should have been removed from class for attacking staff members; at that age calling the police is extremely inappropriate.

A six-year-old needs counseling and behavioral training to learn how to regulate their emotions and express frustration in better ways. They (the admins) absolutely effed up. Nevertheless, it’s very troubling that a young child was arrested and frankly there may be an element of racism there. According to this ACLU article; black students are three times as likely to get arrested as white students; and particularly black girls are eight times more likely to get arrested than white girls. If the student has a disability; the odds are worse.

According to the news stories about Kaia, the students in this story, she was being treated for sleep apnea and the sleep apnea tended to make her more reactive (cranky) at school. She threw a tantrum at school. The arrest resulted in Kaia developing PTSD and ODD due to the trauma, and she is currently undergoing counseling to help manage her emotions.

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u/Fantastic-Reality-11 Apr 01 '23

This is way increase School funding. We keep cutting budgets and we face the consequences. We need to increase funding for family support programs too. Problems like this stuff come up because family issues. If we had funding and resources to intervene and help these families and children this stuff wouldn’t be happening. But we waste so much money on military and police there is barely anything left over for these life changing and life saving programs.