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Teachers Sick And Tired Of Being Teacher And Parent To Kids: Criminalizing Children For Acting Like Kids–8 Year Old Girl Jailed For Throwing Tantrum
By now, many people know that there exists in this country high school pipeline to prison pipelines, but few people are aware that the pipeline
sometimes begins in elementary school, at least for minority students.
An 8 year old girl was handcuffed and jailed after she threw a tantrum at school, according to KMOV-TV. Little Jmyha Rickman’s troubles began when the Love Joy Elementary School student in Alton, Ill, reportedly threw a tantrum at school, and someone at the school responded to the 8 year old’s actions by calling the police.
Rickman reportedly has a history of throwing tantrums at school, and instead of dealing with the tantrum as trained professionals, officials at Rickman’s elementary school passed the little girl off to police.
After the police arrived, the little girl was handcuffed, put in the back of a police car, and driven to jail like a common crook, where she remained for 2 hours.
