WAUKEGAN, Ill. – The Waukegan School District 60 is investigating to determine why a local elementary school principal called police to handle a kindergarten student at the school

District and police officials refused to discuss with the Chicago Tribune why the principal at Andrew Cooke Magnet School called Waukegan Police, but confirmed the incident occurred around 10 a.m. on Jan. 5.

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“When a 6-year-old student, a kindergartner … when the police is called on a student, that lets us know that there is still much work that needs to be done,” community activist Christopher “Brotha” Blanks told board members at a meeting Tuesday. “If a teacher, or even a principal, has to call the police in before exhausting all possibilities in the educational realm, that is a real problem.”

At least one other resident complained about the rush to involve law enforcement at the Tuesday meeting, and board members seemed to agree the move crossed the line, according to the news site.

“Neither the superintendent’s office nor the Board of Education condone any staff member unnecessarily involving law enforcement or engaging the police in routine student discipline matters,” Waukegan School District 60 Superintendent Theresa Plascencia wrote in a prepared statement. “We continuously strive to enhance the social emotional competency and cultural awareness of all our staff members, and to build effective supportive relationships with the entire school community.”

District spokesman Nick Alajakis told the Tribune Cooke Magnet School staff were aware of the district’s policy of avoiding law enforcement involvement, but make the call anyway. District officials are investigating the incident to determine what policies were violated, Plascencia said.

Waukegan Police Cmdr. Joe Florip said both school and police officials attempted unsuccessfully to contact the child’s mother before an officer drove the student to a family member’s home. Florip, Alajakis, and Plascencia refused to provide any information about the child or reason behind his removal, the Tribune reports.

The incident certainly isn’t the first time that school officials have called in the cops to deal the a 5- or 6-year old.

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A 6-year-old student at Hendricks Elementary School in Shelbyville, Indiana was arrested in April 2012 after he allegedly kicked a principal during a tantrum. The boy wasn’t handcuffed, but police stuffed him in a police car and hauled him to the station, where he was booked on juvenile charges, CBS News reports.

Also in 2012, a principal at Creekside Elementary School in Milledgeville, Ga. Called in local law enforcement when a 6-year-old girl threw a tempter tantrum and knocked over a shelf that injured the principal.

In that case, the girl’s parents spoke out against the move in the media, and local police defended the decision to handcuff the child and charge her with simple assault and damage to property, the New York Daily News reports.