An allegedly out-of-control 4-year-old prompted a call to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office in October, according to a report by Hawes Spencer on WVTF radio. The child apparently raised a ruckus in a pre-K classroom at Nathanael Greene Elementary School in Stanardsville when he allegedly threw blocks, climbed over desks, and hit, scratched and kicked the principal and director of special education. The educators called police, and a sheriff’s deputy handcuffed the boy, who has attention deficit disorder, according to his mother, Tracy Wood.
When she went to pick her son up at the school, she learned he’d been transported to the sheriff’s office, where he’d been shackled. “Once he got inside the office, since he tried to run and kick the deputies, they took the handcuffs off him and put the leg shackles on him,” said Greene Sheriff Steven Smith.
The matter could come up at a Greene County school board meeting this week.