Since we're making suppositions. Or --regardless of what she was doing-- she had the volume up?

You don't think that would be distracting to other kids?

Everyone here agrees that the security guard was very wrong, so there's no point in discussing that. What *hasn't* been discussed is, what *should* have been done? Leaving a child to distract other children in class isn't the best solution for the other kids. I would *not* want my kid to have to deal with that nonsense while trying to learn.

>The goal of removing her from the class is to prevent her from
>being a distraction. And punish her.
>
>She can be punished other ways at a later time.
>
>Whatever distraction she was causing couldn't have been as bad
>as the distraction (among other negative impacts) of seeing a
>classmate being brutalized by police in a classroom.
>
>It's not that complicated.

Actually, it must be *very* complicated because no one here has actually presented a idea on what should have been done. Doing nothing isn't the answer either.