I watched completely without horror as the town of St. Petersburg Florida its, school system and subsequently Fairmont Park Elementary School were held hostage by a five year old. Luckily they got the thing on videotape.

During class the little girl acted up while counting jellybeans in class. As a punishment, the jelly beans were taken from her. She then went on the rampage trashing  Mrs. Ottersbach's desk, smashing a candy dish. When they tried to contain her, she then kicked another teacher in the shins, officials said. When she got to the principals office she threw books, then boxes, she climbed on the desk, stomped around, she drew on the walls and then assaulted the assistant principal.

Here is an excerpt from the newspaper..

The girl was to return to the classroom today, but her mother said that won't happen. "She's never going back to that school," Inda Akins said Thursday evening from her apartment on 39th Lane S. "They set my baby up."

Akins laughed at the last part. Her daughter, she said, weighs 40 pounds. The girl stood next to a reporter and measured about 3 1/2 feet. "She's just a regular girl," Akins said.

As she spoke, her three children rambled through the apartment. The girl, the oldest child, rode a pink bicycle through the living room, one of the training wheels missing. Her brother got up on a table and swatted a light fixture, laughing.

"I wanted to play the jelly bean game," the girl said when asked what upset her at school Monday.


Its never the students fault is it?

In the video I saw on CNN the little girl tearing up the Assistant Principals office and then kicking and hitting the assistant principal.

Now, the following things come to mind in all this melee.

• The fact that the girl had been a consistent discipline problem will be covered up.
• The Assistant Principal Nicole Dibenedetto only touched the little girl if she absolutely had to, if she did anything else, she could be sued or arrested.
• The girls mother could not get there in a reasonable time to fix this problem herself.
• The police did the right thing in restraining the girl I don't care how young she is. By the age of five you don't go running around hitting adults that aren't doing anything to you but requiring you to act civilized.
• If school personnel would have done anything they would have been called racists because the girl is black.
• The police I am sure, will be called racists regardless of the video.
• The Civil Rights Industry will conjure up some kind of slavery image.

Wait, don't tell me. "If my daughter wants to hit adults and tear up school property she should be able to do it. Don't be disciplining my child.". Thirty years ago, when corporal punishment could be administered to unruly children, the problem would have been stopped and, stopped quickly. Nowdays you can't even look at an unruly student the wrong way unless you want a lawsuit.

My prediction is that the little girl today, will be in prison tomorrow and the good citizens of Florida, after paying for the lottery winnings to come from the lawsuits in this incident will then have to shell out thirty large per year to house this person when she enters the penal system and about 10 large per child she had before she is finally arrested.

Meanwhile, the Mercedes dealerships will be sending her mother a nice note, inviting her to their showrooms. Dubs might want to send a postcard as well.