Boy, 8, Arrested for 5th Time in 4 Months

I didn't read it as he had a disability but that the lawyer said he took the case because his brother had a disability. Some one has to take responsibility of the childs behavior so he doesn't hurt someone else and that he has to learn that his behavior is unexceptable.

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Kat - the part I referred to may be at the beginning, but it DOES imply that the child suffers a disability. Being personally familiar with the way special education works - and it is mandated on the FEDERAL level - from my *own* 8 year boy with social & emotional issue, I am quite confident in the accuracy of my comment.

Unlike some other commenters, I do not think it is entirely fair that the public school system carries the burden of providing all the necessary services for disabled children - especially those with social, emotional, and behavioral issues. If this child is having such a hard time in this environment, his parents really need to look into other options. For his safety as well as that of the other students.

This is not the schools fault. The schools job is to educate the students. Its there job to teach and the parents job is to parent. Kids need structure just like everything on this planet. Without structure it would be chaos. That sound alot like the whole planet. I gues everyone needs structure.

i agree then i think he might have been born like that like alot of bad people are and parents have nothing to do with it and cant help him, u c great people and great parents but there kids can b born mean and killers and has nothing to do with parents the police need to think about things like that and put him some were he cant hurt people

i agree then i think he might have been born like that like alot of bad people are and parents have nothing to do with it and cant help him, u c great people and great parents but there kids can b born mean and killers and has nothing to do with parents the police need to think about things like that and put him some were he cant hurt people

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Well said!

The problem that no one wants to take on is that the ones that should be able to respond to the little shet @ss can't because of the law. I would say it starts with parents that divorce because the kids start understanding that they can get away with stuff because one parent wants the kid to like them over the other. I still think that parents divorced or not should tear their little @ss up to where that can't sit. It worked years ago and it will still work no matter what some BS social worker tries to say. The school should also have permission from the parents to tear those Little @ss' up in school when they are disruptive. Have a video going that clearly shows the kid doing what is wrong and show to the kid and then let the kid have it. Deterrence will work if you make the pain the consequence of the kid doing wrong. The kid needs to remember the pain that they will get for doing something wrong. I know that this may not sound PC, but just think years ago it was PC and there was a lot less little Shetz getting away with stuff and they turned out fine.

wtilton67 are you sure your generation turned out fine? Every 15 seconds a woman gets beaten! Violence begets violence!

I agree, violence begets violence. So many families raise their child under the philosophy that if someone hits you, hit them back harder, instead of teaching assertiveness and when its acceptable to defend yourself, not retaliate.

However, some kids need an old fashioned "whooping". You have to be careful though of course. The problem is, which I have seen countless times, is that children have no respect for adults, they disrespect them verbally and physically, all because they know the adult can not touch them. I have also seen many cases where families lived in fear because the child realized he could manipulate the system, with false accusations of physical or sexual abuse. The kids are then free to do whatever they want, sometimes even threatening to have their little brother taken away by protective services. Our system is definitely going in the wrong direction, wtilton is correct there.

wtilton67 I so beg to differ with you! I got the crap beat out of me physically by both parents and when they were too tired they shot me down with words. So I decided when I became a parent that I wouldn't hit my kids. Guess what? MINE were the wee ones at the playground and parties who were very well behaved-so well to the point other parents who knew me would whisper " they are so good and she doesn't even WHOOP them!! " Mine were the kids in school who got great grades and who had that " thing " where every freaking kid in school liked them even if they had friends who didn't like each other! Now mine are the guys who are in college getting good grades and have a social life and so many friends you can't count and both have great jobs and wonderful girlfriends and still take the time out for their old 46 year old Mom to do some yard work or sit down for Sunday pasta every week! The point here is not to brag-frankly I wonder every day how such a loser as me could have made a couple of great kids as they and no-it wasn't their Dad, who WAS also beaten as a kid. And in turn put me in the hospital a few times until the day he decided to hit our oldest who was 5-THAT is what snapped me out of the abuse I was told I deserved! The jerk was divorced from all of us within 30 days. In a long winded way I just want to tell you that beating begets beatings, and words hurt even more. This kid wasn't born bad-something at home ( someONE at home ) is frustrating him to the point where the only place he feels he CAN lash out is a place he is NOT being abused at. I Pray they all get help and you get help too. Violence solves nothing.

Very well said... this day and age, everyone is going to point the finger at anyone but who is really responsible for the kids... and that would be the PARENTS... My daughter is not of school age yet, but she does go to day care. I certainly hope she never has to face kids with issues like these, but she will be taught to respect the teachers and the administrators, and if there is an issue, it will be talked through until a solution can be found! I so respect anyone who works in our school systems, because I know it is not easy... and I know I wouldn't want to do it. But clearly, this mother of this child is looking for someone to blame, rather than sucking it up and getting this child the help that he clearly needs. I'm so sick of people that don't take responsibility. As someone else pointed out, many of these children have a "disability" so their parents can get that government money... sorry, it's sad, but it is so true and it's unfortunately for those kids because they have no chance in life.

Not too mention there are so many laws in place protecting children, even if a child does this to a parent, a parent needs to stand and take it because if the parent does not stand and take it,and puts the child in their place then you have child abuse charges. To me no parent or teacher needs to put up with this behavor,but I think a good old fashioned punishment is what this child needs,not jail. A good crack on his arse will be less emotional scarring for this kid than jail will be.

psychologist= i create a problem so i can treat a problem,,, darn funny i dont remember any misbehaving kids like this when i was 8yrs old/ 1959/ if they misbehaved they got their asses whipped regardless if it was home or school and the so called problem went away,, but in this oh so kind gentlier p.c. world we live in we let these brats get away with it,, what a joke the country has become

And parents like you are the reason our nations kids fare worse than any other developed nation on the planet! Our kids feel great about themselves for NOTHING! For accomplishing NOTHING. There was a study awhile back that showed that American children felt the best about themselves,and yet had accomplished the LEAST>Madam,you have it BACKWARDS. If you expect nothing,you get nothing. Praise a child when he earns it,not just because he woke up,for God's sake. You parents make me want to puke. ADHD. How about a brat? Does that sound better? Your kids will be on the welfare rolls someday,because their mommy praised them everyday for nothing,and so they believed the world revolved around them,even though they hadn't done anything! You are crippling your kids emotionally by that method.