Kindergartner Charged With Felony Tantrum
Avon Park, Fla., is a zero-tolerance kind of place.
On March 28, Desre'e Watson, a 6-year-old kindergarten student at Avon Elementary School, had a bad morning. She cried. She wailed. She kicked. She scratched. She hit a teacher. That's what the police say, anyway.
The police? That's right. To subdue the unruly kindergartner, school officials phoned Avon Park's police department ("committed to enhancing the 'Quality of Life' of the community"). When the cops arrived, young Desre'e attempted to resist arrest by crawling under a table. But Avon Park's finest pulled her out, cuffed her, put her in a police cruiser, drove her to the county jail, and charged this 50-pound menace with a felony and two misdemeanors. The police report is below.
"When there is an outburst of violence," Police Chief Frank Mercurio told a local news station, "we have a duty to protect and make that school a safe environment for the students, staff and faculty. That's why, at this point, the person was arrested regardless what the age." Let's hope his message gets across to those brats in the neonatal wards.
Oh. My. God. Yeah, let's traumatize the kid even more. That'll help.
What? Is that an April Fool's joke?
Why didn't they call the child's parent or guardian? What is wrong with people?
Why didn't they call the child's parent or guardian? What is wrong with people?
Well, from the police report it sounds like they weren't able to get ahold of the parents.
The kindergarten tantrum felon's name is Desre'e. I wonder if she freaked out after an introduction to punctuation.
The kindergarten tantrum felon's name is Desre'e. I wonder if she freaked out after an introduction to punctuation.
Tea. On. My. Monitor.
I just don't get it. A kindergarten teacher -- and the school administration -- are supposed to be early childhood experts. And they believe that the best way to resolve a five-year-old's tantrum is to have big strange men chase her into a corner, cart her off in handcuffs, and take her to a police station?!
Yeah, I don't think that a child's tantrum should qualify under zero tolerance. If she shivved the teacher, sure.
I just don't get it. A kindergarten teacher -- and the school administration -- are supposed to be early childhood experts. And they believe that the best way to resolve a five-year-old's tantrum is to have big strange men chase her into a corner, cart her off in handcuffs, and take her to a police station?!
Really. Reading the police report just made me angrier. It's written like she's some criminal. She was likely scared to death when the cops showed up. Then they dragged her out from underneath the table where she was hiding. The poor little thing kept putting her foot in the cruiser door, trying to keep them from shutting her in. Oh my word, what must have been going through her little mind. She's two months younger than Christopher. I want to smack every adult that dealt with that poor little girl.
Yeah, what Cindy said. That is just horrible.
