There's a very good reason that those 2 adults couldn't handle him and had to call the police. They would have found themselves and the school district in court so fast their heads would have been spinning for a week. They probably couldn't even put him some sort of hold until he calmed down (which would have probably been enough).

I feel sorry for the kid. He has learned (thanks, loving parents!) that he can get his way by force or temper tantrum. Yeah, you're right... he'll make a great Democrat some day.

You are correct sir! Proper discipline would do wonders for a lot of kids. I'm proud to say niether of mine would even think of acting this. They know where the line is and what happens when it's crossed. Yes, they have and sometimes do cross it but never like this and absolutely never in public. Say what you mean, do what you say! I make no threat, just promises, and they know it. They are good kids because of it!

Too many parents also try to psychoanalyze their kids' misbehaviors. Thanks, Dr. Spock.

All this kid needs is an old fashioned spanking (or a few of them) Simple-negative consequences for negative behavior. Worked for all 4 of us; works for my child. (who hardly ever misbehaves, and we get a lot of compliments on how well-behaved he is)

Trust me, child psychobabblers out there- my child definitely has very good self esteem and is quite a happy little boy.

This kid is well beyond spanking.
Frontal Lobotomy maybe (heck, do the parents too).

Does anyone have any solid evidence that this type of child has ever grown up to be anything but an oxygen thief that either beats people up, or has a number of lawyers at his call to sue for anything from hot coffee to bubblegum on a sidewalk?

He's probably a school bully to boot. For that, I hope one of his victims kills the ****er.

I'd have to say my son did. He was diagnosed with "conduct disorder" which is a form of ADD that you supposedly don't grow out of. When he was in grade school, he kicked the crap out of his teacher, and threw books around the room. I was notified that the principal and teacher wanted to have a meeting with me, and when I arrived, they wanted to know what they could do about it. I told them I'd take care of it. And I did. He never acted like that in class again. And if this kid's parents would "take care of it", he'd stop acting like a babboon as well.

I'm coming to the conclusion that "ADD" is just an excuse for bad parenting.

I believe Neil Boortz came up with the following idea:

You take a kid who supposedly has "ADD" and plant him in front of a TV hooked up with a Playstation 2 and 99% of the time his/her "ADD" will magically disappear.

The other 1% will exibit "ADD" because he/she didn't like that particular video game.

I'm inclined to agree with him.

At any rate, It would be a good test.....

(Now I'm assuming you mean "corporeal punishment", not "coporeal punishment". I could be wrong, however, but at school I never seemed to learn what the word "coporeal" meant: must be those damn democrats again, not teaching our kids the meaning of non-existant words.)

It is true we need more corporeal punishment in schools, far too much punishment nowadays seems to be of the non-corporeal form. Non-corporeal punishment is far too wishy-washy and innefective: if children are punished non-corporeally they might start to do other things non-corporeally like washing up and hair-drying and who knows where we'd be then, when all our children start doing things 'in spirit only'. I'm sure they'll make good Democrats: All those non-corporeal things like "intensions", but no bodily action to back it all up.

Sorry, but a post on education by a Republican on "coporeal punishment" was just way too good to pass up.

Your-with-tongue-in-cheek,

A LibDem student who grew up just fine without corporal punishment.

Just a note to Miss LibDem; I have mixed feelings on physical punishment for children. Certainly, any parent that takes any delight in it is sadistic at best. And hitting a child in anger is never a good idea. But as a father of two children there were rare occasions where all of forms of other "discipline" just didn't work. Removal of privileges, being sent to a room, "time-outs" and a host of other methods just weren't working. After a talk with my 7 year old boy informing him of the cold consequences of a particular behaviour, the calculated and emotionless spanking did finally change his action. I didn't enjoy it at all and I could easily see his feelings were hurt. But the fact remains children need to learn there will be real-world consequences when they grow up and some of those consequences are rather brutal compared to an occasional, calculated spanking. I'd rather have my child angry with me because he was spanked than have him grow up thinking he can act outside boundaries without consequences and end up in prison, or even worse, perhaps the electric chair. Certainly those are extreme consequences and I think abusive spankings or beatings bring far more harm than good. Still, the premeditated sharing of the consequence with my son and the ensuing dispensing of that consequence ended up being the only effective tool in changing his behaviour. As I recall, I never had to do that again. Lastly, Miss LibDem should be careful about mocking anyone especially when it comes to grammatical or spelling "errors. As it turns out, "corporeal" and "corporal" are both accepted usages of the word, both meaning "physical". Consider your haughty and condescending tone challenged. I, for one, did not appreciate it in an open forum.

I don't know about the current policies in grade schools about corporeal punishment, However I do feel that canning is certainly an acceptable process for controlling our smart-ass uncontrolled youth. I remember well being hauled into the cloakroom and getting my hands swatted with a ruler for being a bit too communicative. No goody two shoes was I.
Why not use this for those who refuse to respect others? It just might keep some of those future prison inmates.....out.