Students Handcuffed At Elementary Schools

[matcom]

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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Security guards at elementary schools in Kent, Washington, have used metal handcuffs to restrain unruly students at least four times during the current school year, officials said on Thursday.

The Kent School District, already facing discrimination lawsuits claiming security guards used excessive force in restraining teenage black students, said the handcuffs were used only to stop students from hurting themselves or others.

"We're a very large school district and we have children with behavioral challenges or other issues and that (handcuffs) is the last resort that an agent will take," district spokeswoman Becky Hanks told Reuters.

The incidents were first reported in Thursday's edition of the Seattle Times.

The four incidents in Kent elementary schools, which house 14,000 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, involved three students, two of them black.

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[demnan]

1. Well school finally decided to teach something of the real world

Yes let's have the little black kids get used to being arrested - they'll be going through that for the rest of their lives.

[mmm]

2. perhaps the cops will start showing them how when they stuff

you into the back of the car they - just by accident -
smash your head up against the door frame three or four times.
I guess they want to give kids good sound REASONS to hate authority
at the earliest age possible.