Reply #24: I thought the plastic ties were appropriate and better than hitting.

[TexasSissy]

But that's me. Both are traumatic...but the situation itself was traumatic.

It is possible that the kid is a manic-depressive or something. She should be checked out immediately. If it's not physical/biological, then surely she has emotional/psychological problems. Her behavior, IMO, was NOT a normal tantrum. It was extreme, it was violent, and it is a precursor to some serious injury that she will likely inflict on another person in the future, if her problem isn't taken care of. All it would have taken was throwing one ruler across the room to put out the teacher's eye or another child's eye.

Spanking would not have resolved the situation, I believe. Because it was not a normal tantrum.