Five Year Old Handcuffed for Tantrum

Florida is making news again: This time, having handcuffed a five-year old black girl, of course, but after her tantrum was over.

What impressed me was the incompetence of Nicole Dibenedetto, the new assistant principal of Fairmont Park Elementary school. This principal had just been through Crisis Prevention training and, I suppose, was following the rules and procedures she had learned there. It doesn't say much about the competence of the training either.

Any parent who has had to handle the typical and not that unusual tantrum from a 5-year-old will recognize both the child's behavior and the thorough lack of knowledge this principal has in handling children.

Here is the recent link to the news report that has links to the video. Total video time is about 30 minutes. Report and Video

Posted by Larry Winkler at April 24, 2005 12:16 PM
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