STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – A mother is furious after her 6-year-old special needs child was handcuffed for “misbehaving” in school.

Lakaisha Reid’s son is a first grader at Pine Ridge Elementary School in Stone Mountain.

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“My husband got a call that something was going on with Patrick at school, and they needed us to come. We go into the school and a gentleman takes us back. I hear my son yelling and screaming” Reid tells WXIA.

The boy reportedly ran out of the school and was handcuffed by a school resource officer “for his personal safety,” according to the school.

The DeKalb County School District defended the actions of its employees, writing in a statement:

“A 6-year-old student at Pine Ridge Elementary School was acting in a disruptive manner and being self-destructive during school today. He ran out of school onto a busy, public street and was pursued by three school staff members. The student was secured and returned to the school and placed in a room with a special education teacher, the school counselor and the School Resource Officer (SRO) to protect him from doing harm to himself. After several unsuccessful attempts, his parents were contacted and asked to come immediately to the school. For approximately one hour, the student was scratching, kicking and hitting school personnel and continued to exhibit violent behavior, running into walls, banging his head on tables and placing his health at risk. At this point, the SRO placed handcuffs on the student to protect him from harming himself. When the parents arrived, they were told the student was handcuffed for his personal safety.”

The mother did not send her child back to the school.

A similar incident occurred earlier this school year in the Kissimmee, Florida district.

An autistic 10-year-old at Cypress Elementary School reportedly became unruly in class and allegedly punched two teachers. He was handcuffed and laid on the trunk of a police cruiser.

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According to the father – who snapped the photo to the right – he was prevented from trying to help to de-escalate the situation.

“I kept telling the cops he’s autistic, let me deal with the situation, let me handle it because I’m his father and I can deal with it,” Moses Maldonado told CBS. “They didn’t want to hear it. They just kept on and they picked him up on top of the cop car. That’s when I just lost it.”

“As a dad, you don’t want to see your son go through that,” he told KSBW.com. “As soon as they picked him up and put him on the cop car, they handcuffed him. I’m like ‘oh my God, please let me help him, let me take him home, let me deal with him, I’m his father, I know how to deal with him, I know how to handle him.’”

Reid hopes the Pine Ridge incident will lead to “more training” at the school.