A six-year-old girl in Milledgeville, Georgia was handcuffed by police and taken to the police station this week, because she had a temper tantrum in which she threw furniture and knocked over a small shelf in her kindergarten classroom.
Although there are still several unanswered key questions of this situation -- such as why the girl had the temper tantrum, and how the teacher initially responded to the temper tantrum before calling for the principal -- we believe that the principal's call for the police to resolve this situation was unnecessary and wrong.
In fact, it conveys a message of incompetence on the part of the school principal, because it clearly illustrates that he was unable to resolve this disciplinary situation on his own.
Instead of seeking police assistance, the principal should have taken the girl to his office -- or a nearby empty room -- and called the girl's parents to come to the school to pick up their daughter.
For police to handcuff a six-year-old kindergarten girl -- and drive her to the police station -- is an incredible "remedy" for this situation.
Indeed, it is a "remedy" that never should have occurred.
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