How US schools punish Black kids | 2020 Election

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If you can't handle a 5 year old, I'm sorry you shouldn't be working at a school.

Let's get this straight. The school called the police to arrest a 6 year old because she had a tantrum. If you can't handle a kid having a tantrum well then maybe working in a primary school isn't the best job for you.

racism isn't getting worse, its getting filmed

I feel bad for the 6 year old kid imagine that trauma I hope she's okay

There is literally nothing a 5-year-old is physically able to do that warrants handcuffing them and throwing them in a police car

schools dont do anything about bullying but they find the need to arrest a 6 year old? yikes.

I got suspended for being 15 minutes late to school and not having on the uniform shirt. What actually happened was I missed my school bus and had to run to metro bus (public transportation) stop in order to even make it there. If I had not I would have been more than an hour late by time the next bus came. It was hot that day so I took off the thick school polo until I got to campus and stop being sweaty. As soon as I walked into building they rounded up everyone that was late that day because a lot of people were still in halls after first period bell. They decided to make an example out of everyone to warn the other students. I never had been in any trouble ever at school and had good grades. I was in the biotech special classes called (IB) and wanted to attend an Ivy League. I cried and beg them not to suspend me because a suspension would look bad for colleges. They turned my original 1 day into a week for “theatrics”/“causing a scene”. After that I stop caring as much about school. I felt like my chances of getting into a top school were ruined. I did end up going to college finally though but at 23 after years of being talked down to by people not smarter than me while working minimal wage jobs. I graduated with a 3.73 gpa in biological engineering. But I always wonder what would have happened had I just made that bus that day. How much further along in life I could have been. I’m definitely not blameless in how I handled the situation after but at 15 my thought processes weren’t perfect, one bad moment felt like my life was over at the time.

I am a kindergarten teacher and I have been for the last 6 years and I work with ages from 1 to 6. I have been punched kicked pinched and screamed at and I have never even thought of calling the police. I deal with it with kindness but firmness !! I am the adult

In America instead of talking to kid's parents, they calls Cops and gets kid arrested.

You can’t call the police on a 5 year old...she’s five. This is horrible

"Talking back" Oh sorry teacher, did I hurt your feeling for saying something that's clearly right?

Imagine being a child in Kindergarten, and see one of your classmates be arrested, in class, for just have a meltdown.

"What you in for?" "For throwing a tantrum as a 6 year old"

Imagine, A full-grown man assaulting an elementary student.

Bullying exists* Schools: Eh... 🤷‍♂️ 5-year old with a tantrum* Schools: Now that's an Avenger's level threat. bruh. 👁👄👁

I can only imagine being a 5 year old getting arrested. Kids that age don’t even understand life, they’re just starting. Most view police as people who help protect. This is just awful :(

imagine arresting a 5 year old child for having a tantrum even though thats basically apart of growing up at this point

The fact that the police officers would even carry that out is infuriating.

White kid vapes School: 3 day suspension Black kid: Make a paper airplane School: Now this is an avengers level threat