Dr. Louis Kraus Is In A River In Egypt
SO-CALLED EXPERT THINKS ARMED GEORGIA THIRD-GRADERS WOULDN’T HAVE ATTACKED TEACHER
FITSNews - April 5, 2008 - We’re no experts on kids, but given the instant availability of violent stimuli in our world, we’d take it pretty seriously if a group of eight-year-olds got caught bringing a blunt object, a steak knife and handcuffs to school as part of an admitted plot to knock out, handcuff and stab their teacher. But according to kiddie expert Dr. Louis Kraus, there’s nothing to worry about:
Experts said children that age are certainly imaginative and capable of creating elaborate games. But Dr. Louis Kraus, a child psychiatry expert at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said he doubts they would have actually attacked.
“The reality is it is highly unlikely they would have been successful at this,” Kraus said. “Even if it had begun, it’s unclear whether they actually would have followed through with it.”
Most premeditated acts of student violence in schools usually don’t occur until high school, Kraus said. Younger children have been known to bring knives or other weapons to school, experts said, but often it’s more a matter of showing off or acting tough than part of a deliberate assault attempt.
Whatever. “If it had begun” in this case means somebody would have been knocked out cold. These kids were about to set it off, people, and this Georgia teacher is lucky to still have a pulse. Usually we’re not big on kneejerk overreactions, but in this case we would humbly submit that Dr. Louis Kraus is an idiot.
Comments
By KC on April 6th, 2008 at 4:10 am
From past experiences, I’d say Dr Kraus knows what he’s talking about. However, the past is not the present, and the world he studied in books is not the world of today. In some parts of the world, children as young as 8 y/o have been used as soldiers.
http://itsafreeworld.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/child-soldiers/
By bird on April 7th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Dr. K doesn’t know sh*t from shinola.
But he would see the error of his ways if he had the guts to get close enough to the little “chuckys” to psychoanalyze them — and milk the situation for all it’s worth. Like that lame-o Dr. Phil tried to do with our Britney.
By Dr. Amos Baranes on October 20th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
It is so amazing that you are even considering the opinion of Dr. Louis Kraus. My two children live in his house (with my ex wife) and they are being terrorized by him. They can not wait to leave the house. He is barely at home and when he is He screams and yells at my ex and the children. He has done the maximum to prevent a normal relationship between me and the children. It is already almost four years and he does not let the children to come and visit their other family in Israel.
I am a senior lecturer in the Technion and University of Haifa. Fortunately, I have three more kids with a wonderful wife. But Dr. Louis Kraus can not accept the fact that some people are happy and he does not allow them to visit their father and their brothers and sister.
Maybe you can teach hem something in psychology – You can read and write many books but if you fail to implement it in your own home, all your knowledge is worthless.