So, a second grader is being bullied, he cries. The poor little kid needs help and attention from the men and women in charge, the ones who need to comfort him, help him grow into a strong independent, intelligent adult…. So, god only knows why one school thinks this situation required the 7-year old to be handcuffed…. And we wonder where the country’s social problems start? If adults can’t act properly, how can we expect kids to!

So, Kaylb Wiley Primm, a Kansas City 7-year old second grader was handcuffed for crying. Two years later, his life is just getting back on it’s right path.

The Huffington Post reported:

The incident began when a school-based police officer happened to walk by Kaylb’s classroom and hear him crying and disrupting other students, according to a lawsuit filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Kaylb’s family. When Kaylb continued to cry and yell in the hallway, against the officer’s requests, the officer put the child in handcuffs and brought him to the main office, where he sat until a parent arrived.

Kaylb’s life was upended as a result of the incident. His mom, Tomesha Primm, took him out of school out of fear for his safety. She said he started having nightmares and wetting the bed. Now the family has filed a lawsuit in hopes that the school district will better train its police officers to work with kids and provide compensatory damages.

Time and time again, black kids are more harshly punished than white kids, this incident is absolutely diabolical (for any kid, of any color, any place). Kids need guidance, help and care. Discipline is important but teaching them with handcuffs and police is NOT going to help.

This story and similar stories NEED to be out there, we need to change a system that backs this.

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