Second Grader Handcuffed at School for Misbehaving

http://breakingbrown.com/2014/05/second-grader-handcuffed-at-school-for-misbehaving/

There was once a time when a misbehaving child was placed in time-out as punishment. Times have obviously changed because one Kansas City boy says he was treated like a common criminal when caught yelling at school.

“Some of the kids were messing with me,” second grader Kalyb Primm said, according to local affiliate KSHB 41.

The boy says he began yelling after some kids decided to taunt him, but he never got physical. When a teacher tried but failed to calm Kalyb down, the boy says he was handcuffed by a security officer and taken to the principal’s office.

“We were halfway down the hall, he put handcuffs on and twisted my wrists a little,” Kalyb said.

“I don’t think any 7-year-old should be in handcuffs unless he was armed with a weapon, or vi?lent,” said Kalyb’s mother Tomesha Primm.

Kalyb’s father says when he arrived at the school, his son was in handcuffs.

A spokesman for the school said handcuffing second graders is the proper procedure and the security officer did nothing wrong.

Kalyb’s parents can’t understand why their young son was treated like a common criminal for merely yelling and neither can Kalyb.

“Criminals, robbers, bank robbers, stealers,” Kalyb said. “Because kids are not that bad.”

Kalyb’s parents want the school to review its policy for dealing with these types of incidents. They are also planning on moving their child to another school district where he won’t be traumatized by security officials.