Common sense is overrated: Mom arrested while trying to console special needs son in school

[aGameOfThrones]

Missouri resident Niakea Williams was at home, in bed when she got a phone call from Walnut Groves Elementary School. She was told that her son, Michael,who has Asperger’s syndrome, was panicking. Niakea quickly head over to her son’s school, got buzzed in, and immediately went to find Michael. As KMOV News 4 reports, what happened next has Ms. Williams furious.

Ms. Williams, though she had been buzzed in as a “known parent” by school officials, apparently broke protocol when she did not sign in before heading to Michael’s classroom to console him. Williams admits this but feels she was justified, telling KMOV, “I didn’t sign the book, but I had to check on my son.” She told the principal to bring the book to her and she’d sign it, but the administrator had other ideas. Niakea recounts, “She said, ‘Oh no, I’ve already called the police.’”

She had indeed called the police. Calverton Park Police showed up and put the school in a 12-minute lockdown due to an “unauthorized entry to a school.” Williams was arrested and taken to the police station on trespassing charges. This all despite her being a known parent at the school who actually had met with the principal just one day prior.

Ms. Williams thinks the whole ordeal was unnecessary, telling the station, “They escorted me away from my son, who already has emotional distress. Four officers told me to turn around and put my hands behind my back, I was under arrest.” It’s unclear as to what will happen to Williams next, legally speaking. As for the school’s side of the story, KMOV made no mention of it.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/mom-arrested-while-trying-to-console-special-needs-son-in-school-193423775.html

[heavenlyboy34]

:eek: no good deed goes unpunished in Amerika... :(

[Kords21]

Good grief. This is beyond ridiculous. The school administrator should have been arrested for wasting the time of the police, but then again they probably didn't mind the chance to arrest her. Easy target and all that.

[phill4paul]

http://www.awesomestories.com/images/user/8ae033ee55.gif

[RJB]

I never regret any sacrifice I've made to homeschool my kids.

[ClydeCoulter]

Humane? Humane? What's the humane society's stand on humans?

[thoughtomator]

Hand your kids over to the state and this is the least of the negative outcomes you can expect.

[green73]

http://www.awesomestories.com/images/user/8ae033ee55.gif

I suspect you'll be getting a lot of use out of that as time presses forward...

[green73]

:eek: no good deed goes unpunished in Amerika... :(

huh?

[heavenlyboy34]

huh?
Just lamenting aloud. Sorry to bother you. ~hugs~

[Anti Federalist]

Government schools are child abuse.

[KCIndy]

In an institution allegedly devoted to knowledge and learning, one would think there would be at least one or two members of the staff who actually possessed a brain.

[tod evans]

In an institution allegedly devoted to knowledge and learning, one would think there would be at least one or two members of the staff who actually possessed a brain.

Why would one think that?

These folks are the perfect cross-section of Boobus. They lump together and discuss what they viewed on the MSM box in their living-room the night before, whipping each-other into some type of paranoid frenzy...Then every once in a while one of 'em will get an authoritarian rush of testosterone and attempt to flex their atrophied muscles...

This is the result.

[unknown]

Seriously?

I mean, there had to be some kind of history between these two prior to this incident, right?

Did this mom really just get arrested and charged with trespassing for "not singing in"...

Scary times.

[TruckinMike]

Seriously?

I mean, there had to be some kind of history between these two prior to this incident, right?

Did this mom really just get arrested and charged with trespassing for "not singing in"...

Scary times.


“She said, ‘Oh no, I’ve already called the police.’” White lab coat wearing authority figures set rules for the "administrator". Those rules are to NEVER be violated. Thus the Administrator unnecessarily calls the police, enforced inhumane laws against Jews, later loaded them into cattle cars, machine gunned them to death, and then watched their lifeless bodys fall into an open pit. ---> Nothing new here ---> see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment


The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.[2]

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the popular question at that particular time: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?"[3] The experiments have been repeated many times in the following years with consistent results within differing societies, although not with the same percentages across the globe.[4] The experiments were also controversial and considered by some scientists to be unethical and physically or psychologically abusive. Psychologist Diana Baumrind considered the experiment "harmful because it may cause permanent psychological damage and cause people to be less trusting in the future."[5]

[Dianne]

These stories become more absurd each day. I have no clue where my Country went :((