Brickbat: Motherly Love

A St. Louis County, Missouri, woman says she has been charged with trespassing after responding to a call from her son's school to help calm the boy down. Niakea Williams says a teacher at Walnut Groves Elementary School called and said her son, who has Asperger's syndrome, was panicking. She rushed to the school, was buzzed in and went to her son's classroom. While she was consoling him, the principal came in to tell her she'd violated school policy by not signing in. She offered to sign in, but the principal said he'd already called the police. Williams said cops hauled her out of the school in handcuffs.
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As instapundit says, public education is child abuse.
The linked article includes no reaction from the school district. I find this odd.
Procedures were followed; school resource officers got home safely; they went surfing on the Mississippi River with Morgan Fairchild; nothing else happened.
By not signing in, she put the lives of herself and the entire school population in danger. I hope she's proud of herself or at least learned the all-important magical goodness of signatures and their ability to ward of evil.
She offered to sign in, but the principal said he'd already called the police. Williams said cops hauled her out of the school in handcuffs.
This is probably an appropriate response to a person being in the school that is well known to the school admin and teachers. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks.
Thank God our heroes in blue went home safe after this terrorist tried to crash a missing Malaysian 777 into the school. Tragedy averted.
They had to do something to calm her son down. [/snark]
Fired, tarred, feathered, ridden out on a rail.
Instead, we will get litigation and the taxpayers will get soaked for and the schoolcrats will close ranks.
Is it too early for some whisky?
No, and thank you for spelling whisky correctly.
Try some Bulleit rye whisky. Small batch. Very tasty.
Fired, hanged, drawn and quartered and the four pieces scattered to the four corners of the USA.
Anyone with a degree in education or related field should have a lifetime ban on contact with children. Including their own crotch fruit.
Male or female, that principal is a fucking cunt.
that's the best kind, though I hear the eating kind is good too
Why can't I have my civil rights violated? I could retire on the 1983 suit.
/0thworldproblems
"school policy" does not trump civil rights. This is a case of false arrest, kidnapping, and violation of her civil rights under color of authority. I hope she refuses any settlement that allows these perps to avoid jail.
-jcrf
Immunity. Sorry. Taxpayers pay, cops and school officials remain on the teat.
everything trumps civil rights dumbass.
Civil rights?! It does not trump common sense!! When the cops got there, who would have complained if the principal had said, "That's OK, it was just a student's mother."? Nobody could possibly, remotely have gotten into any trouble at that point. Now? Big trouble.
I'm firmly convinced of the old adage of "Those who can't, teach" with the addendum "those who can't teach, administrate"
Those who can't administrate call the cops?
teach teachers?
Authority was not respected. Someone was arrested.
The mother had jolly well better have signed *something* at the police station!
FTFA: A mother trying to pick her special needs son up from school winds up in handcuffs and puts the school on lockdown.
Emphasis added. On what authoritah?!
Someone entered the building without signing in!
Aaaauuuggghhh!
Call the police!
... shouted Niakea Williams as she hurried to her son's classroom.
Hah! She deserved it.
*Especially* since she was responding to a call from th school!
Oldest trick in the book.
that would be Tammy, she hangs out at the Dew Drop Inn...
Name 'em and shame 'em. Name 'em and shame 'em. Reveal the idiots for what they are.