Handcuffing: A great way to punish kids for untucked shirts!

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a lawsuit against Jackson Public School District for handcuffing students, sometimes for hours, for very minor infractions. Children, one as young as nine, were handcuffed and left unattended for things such as greeting a friend too loudly in the hallway, not wearing a belt, or wearing the wrong color of shoes.

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There is also a petition of people going WTF, yo?!

Man, that is just wrong in so many levers. And, since when has it been a crime for a kid to act like a kid.

This seems like a reasonable form of punishment if it were used with discretion and, you know, sense.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

This seems like a reasonable form of punishment if it were used with discretion and, you know, sense.

If a student is violent, I can see trying to restrain them. But for untucked shirts and mismatched shoes? Come on!

EileenK98 wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

This seems like a reasonable form of punishment if it were used with discretion and, you know, sense.

If a student is violent, I can see trying to restrain them. But for untucked shirts and mismatched shoes? Come on!

> Expecting a comment from Mikey that's not trolling /Mikey

If the Jackson Public School District had any sense, they'd apologize to the kid and his family immediately and settle this mess out of court as quickly and quietly as possible.

But then again, if they had any sense they wouldn't be handcuffing kids in the first place.

This reminds me of that story where a girl got arrested and taken to an actual police station because she wrote on a desk >_>.
I mean, seriously. If the kid is attacking people, okay, maybe I can see the logic there. But ooh, untucked shirt, so dangerous! Protect me, officer! What on earth were they thinking? Did they seriously think no one would see anything wrong with handcuffing a nine-year-old and leaving him alone? The kind of logic the folks in charge would have to use to think this was acceptable scares me.

Oh, it's Mississippi.

An untucked shirt?! Jesus Fucking Christ. I'm a school librarian, and I almost never tuck my shirt in--and no one notices, let alone handcuffs or in any other way disciplines me.

Lady Anne wrote:

An untucked shirt?! Jesus Fucking Christ. I'm a school librarian, and I almost never tuck my shirt in--and no one notices, let alone handcuffs or in any other way disciplines me.

That's because you obviously work with sane, rational people.

Seriously, what IS IT with the South recently? It's like they're bound and determined to return to the 1950s.

EileenK98 wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

This seems like a reasonable form of punishment if it were used with discretion and, you know, sense.

If a student is violent, I can see trying to restrain them. But for untucked shirts and mismatched shoes? Come on!

That's what I mean when I say "discretion and, you know, sense." It'd be like sending them to the corner, or something. But instead you're handcuffing them to the corner.

But only if they're tipping shit over or won't shut up or something. Actually, now that I think about it, a handcuff wouldn't help shut them up. They'd need a ball gag for that.

Telling young children, "You won't stop causing a nuisance; go to the Naughty Corner" is common sense.

Telling young children, "Tuck your shirt in" is common sense.

Wrong coloured shoes? Well what if the kid doesn't have the right coloured shoes? What do you do then; make them run barefoot? Buy them new shoes? Chop off their feet? No, you handcuff them to something until their shoes change colour.

Something tells me this is under 'wrongful arrest' or something.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Telling young children, "Tuck your shirt in" is common sense.

Who tucks their shirt in anymore? Seriously. Except if you're wearing formal attire. If you aren't, no one bothers to do so.

Rabid Badger wrote:

Seriously, what IS IT with the South recently? It's like they're bound and determined to return to the 1950s.

You say that as if the South has ever been progressive.

Malganis wrote:

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Telling young children, "Tuck your shirt in" is common sense.

Who tucks their shirt in anymore? Seriously. Except if you're wearing formal attire. If you aren't, no one bothers to do so.

I believe the logic behind making students tuck in their shirts is that an untucked shirt hides the belt line and any weapons shoved into the waistband of the pants.

I'd say handcuff the teachers, but some of them might like it. 0_o

Cyberwulf wrote:

Malganis wrote:

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Telling young children, "Tuck your shirt in" is common sense.

Who tucks their shirt in anymore? Seriously. Except if you're wearing formal attire. If you aren't, no one bothers to do so.

I believe the logic behind making students tuck in their shirts is that an untucked shirt hides the belt line and any weapons shoved into the waistband of the pants.

Given how often pants are worn so baggy that they're down around the thighs or knees, it would be easy to hide weapons in them even with a tucked-in shirt.