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

When is this child going to get a correct diagnosis? This is more than behavioral. Get him to the right doctor!!!!

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This child should not be arrested he should be helped mentally. Obviously there is something wrong and must be addressed. Shame on the school just to assume he is a little monster. A child that young acting out like that obviously has a problem and should be helped not arrested.

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I really feel for parents of children with special needs. However, I finally have to say I am tired of my well-behaved child having to find ways to deal with these kids. My son often is victimized by these special needs children only to be told he is the one who needs to adjust. When you consider how many years special teachers are supposed to go to school in order to work with these special needs kids, how can anyone expect my 10 year old to be equipped to do so? Someone has to take control and if that means calling the police then so be it.

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As long as the courts insist that kids such as this must have access to regular public schools (placating parents) and school administrators have "special" classes within those schools for these kids (trying to best deal with a student who really should not be there) thus placing other students and teachers at risk during those periods when the kid is not in "special" class, this sort of stuff will happen.
Political correctness will not allow us to recognize the reality that some of us have no business being turned loose on the general population.

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First of all let me explain something to those of you that think the school is doing the right thing. Schools were encouraged over the last twenty years to use inclusion to include children with disabilities who were once excluded in private centers. These private centers educated not just children who were emotionally disturbed but also children with varying other overt disabilities included those who were mentally retarded. The group that shouted loud and strong for inclusion was the ARC ( Association for Retarded Children ) and for thier children it made sense. They were capable of being social with peers despite not keeping up accademically. However, these special centers were outfitted to deal with these kinds of outbursts and chalenges faced by those children who are mentally and emotionally disturbed.

The school systems have figured out its cheaper to put a classroom in each school and call it a Level 5 class and place emotionally disturbed children in it, rather than having a special center and more personel. In the meanwhile you have a child who should be getting help in a special center instead being blamed for the fact that he was born with a mental disability and cannot control his actions, arrested.

Now has this school system offered to have this child sent to a special school outside of his school district where they specialize in emotional disturbances? Are they willing to pay the 30,000 to 50,000 a year it will cost for the tuition and transportation?

Instead lets blame it on the kid with the disability and arrest him.

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people becaome teachers of special needs children so they do not have to work and are nothing more than high priced baby sitters.

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My heart goes out to this parent. My child will be 8 this year and although his problems are not to this degree it takes a horrible toll on you emotionally and physically, and makes you wonder if you did something wrong as a parent or during your pregnancy. The fact the child has been arrested so many times infuriates me!!! You do not handle a child with these types of problems, ESPECIALLY AN 8 YEAR OLD by putting them in Juvi... What a bunch of aholes!!!!!

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the boy has no disability.. he told them to take him to jail and they listened to him and took him to jail (did what the boy said to do). after a short period he is back to where he was, boasting of what he did and where he's been...building his resume so to speak...

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Gotta wonder if he is white, black, or Spanish.

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My head is spinning with all of the advice from you arm psychologists. Give it a rest. Obviously, you do not know all the facts and haven't the slightest idea of what should be done to help this young man overcome whatever is the cause of his behavior. As for blaming the parents--again, you know nothing of his upbringing or his home life. give it a rest .

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As a nurse I have to ask: Is thise child on medications? Has the medications been reviewed and adjusted. I care for a little girl with behavior problems and the medications must be reviewed at times with growth and behavior patterns. This child need to have a review from a psychiatrist and maybe even placed in a mental in-patient facility to adjust the medications.

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Knuckel sandwich

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Knuckle sandwich

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The problems with the education system is "money" is always the key issue. Parents always have to fight for every dollar for their child. The school is always reluctant to spend the money, even when the state money is given in thousands of dollars for each special need child. When the parents want the school to get the necessary equipment and educational material for special need children, they always need a IEP, the educational must do list for the school, with each child and an advocate to protect the parents and the children's rights. The IEP specifies what each child needs in the school, the classroom, restriction to activities and class time, tutoring time, if the child needs an aide at all times during classtime, and any special equipment, etc.

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As the mother of a child who has issues similar to this, I totally support the school. My son beat up my daughter on the school bus and the school gave me the option to press charges since both children involved were mine. I DID! It was not something I wanted to do but it was something that needed to be done because my job is not to be his buddy, it is to be his mother. The school gets a bad wrap because they are limited in what they can do but it is the PARENTS who made it that way. If parents would let their children be held accountable and not try to blame EVERYONE ELSE for their child's short comings then maybe the schools could teach our children and not worry about who they will offend or who is going to sue them.

On one of the many occasions I visited the principal's office, I asked if I could sign a paddle plan so he could be punished at school. I was told the superintendent "frowned" on paddling children. I asked if I could borrow their paddle and the principal said the superintendent had given orders to prevent any physical punishment on the school grounds -- including parents. Where was she when I got my behind wailed on 20 + years ago?? I only had to receive 2 paddlings in school (kindergarten and 1st grade) for me to figure out that I did not want to be a bad student.

My son continues to do stuff at school and his principal is fighting for him. He goes to a great school (just not a great school system) and I have given them the name of his probation officer and told them that I would FULLY support whatever they had to do to keep order in their school and provide the children who wanted to learn the ability to do so. If that means that because my son decides to steal or beat some one up or other criminal acts that he has to go to jail, I will hate it as his mother but I am not the one who makes that choice. He does. I have another child at home who is the polar opposite and excels in both her behavior and her school work. Obviously something I did was right or I would not have her. They have both had the same upbringing and were taught the same morals. She has chosen to live by them and he chooses daily to rebel against them.

I would hope that, like I did with my own son, that this boy's mother gets him help. She can request counseling and other mental health assistance from the department of juvenile justice. For this boy's sake, I hope she does.

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