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Mom Filmed School Principal Paddling Her Son, Says: 'I Couldn't Do Anything'
Inside Edition via Yahoo News ^ | April 15, 2016 | Inside Edition

Posted on 04/16/2016 8:39:33 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000

A startling video shows a 5-year-old boy getting paddled by his school principal in front of his mom.

Shana Marie Perez, who recorded the footage of her son's punishment, says she's had a long-running dispute with the school principal in Georgia. Her son has had 18 unexcused absences this school year and she was once arrested for his truancy.

She says the school threatened to call the police and have her arrested again if she did not give them permission to paddle Thomas.

She told IE: "I felt like I had no other option. The principal led me to believe that the paddle was the only option."

Perez said her son was "devastated about the whole situation."

"Every time I try to walk up to him he says 'don't hit me, don't hit me,'" she added.

The local sheriff says the school did nothing wrong because paddling is legal in Georgia as long as the parent gives their consent.

The disturbing video is re-igniting an old debate: is paddling really an effective way to punish a child this young?

Read: Teacher Arrested After Video Allegedly Caught Her Slapping Student in Class

Psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz told IE: "There is really no data to say that corporal punishment effects positive change."

She added: "When you take a kid that is already being oppositional and defiant, now you have taught him that another method of coping is to hit. Chances are you are going to get a child that is going to hit."

The school district says they are investigating the incident and their discipline policies


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: discipline
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To: elpadre

Nothing takes the place of good parenting. We bot took an active interest in our children’s schooling, and we came up against some real POS’s as teachers and we dealt personally with each of them with their administrators. Maybe others have had a different experience, but providing a loving home, with the both of us there to make sure our kids behaved, but were treated respectfully by their teachers meant that we never had to use corporal discipline with any of them. Same system works with pets too!


101 posted on 04/16/2016 10:47:46 AM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My dad said the same thing.

You were lucky; the principal at my elementary school was a friend of my dad, so there was no way he wouldn’t find out.


102 posted on 04/16/2016 10:48:09 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: New Jersey Realist
I got whacked too...for misspelling "book" and spelled "boob" instead...4 th grade...infront of the whole class and I think she even pulled my dress up to do it....

no thx....today's teachers do not have the best interest of our children like the old teachers did..the old teachers you never questioned them because they still believed teaching was a vocation...

103 posted on 04/16/2016 10:48:27 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Gaffer
As long as I agreed and was present, then I agree. However, if I did not agree like this parent did not, I’d have decked that a$$hole principal.

But she did agree, she signed the permission paper. If she really opposed their policy, she should have taken her dear child elsewhere for his education. Maybe if she had paddle his behind herself and took him to school, the school wouldn't need to paddle him.

104 posted on 04/16/2016 10:50:31 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: lastchance
after viewing the so called video, the female principal did not do it in anger...she tried to reason with the kid...

missing school when you're 5yro is not the kids fault...

I suspect he's got attention disorder...

this is not the worse of the worst but I still don't like it...

105 posted on 04/16/2016 10:53:54 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Smittie

If she signed a paper that specifically says she will allow corporal punishment by school officials while not under threat or duress (as she claims), then she doesn’t have a valid claim.

It remains to be seen whether she can prove duress and/or threats by the school.


106 posted on 04/16/2016 10:55:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TaxPayer2000

Lemme guess. They’re Amish.


107 posted on 04/16/2016 10:59:57 AM PDT by batterycommander
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To: kosciusko51

In junior high, my stepmother taught at the same school. It was like getting a report card every day.

They had paddling there. It was done out in the hallway, while classes were in session. It was good and loud. The student who got it usually just came back in afterward looking really embarrassed.

It was really, really easy to avoid being paddled, you had to go pretty far over the line to get it.


108 posted on 04/16/2016 11:01:35 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: vette6387

Hi pajama boy.
You forgot which forum you are posting on.


109 posted on 04/16/2016 11:04:23 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: stylin19a

She signed a permission slip.


110 posted on 04/16/2016 11:04:51 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Governor Bentley must resign!)
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To: Nervous Tick

From looking at her Facebook it looks like she has five kids but not a dad.


111 posted on 04/16/2016 11:07:02 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Governor Bentley must resign!)
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To: lastchance

He has been regularly assaulting other children.


112 posted on 04/16/2016 11:11:07 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Governor Bentley must resign!)
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Yeah.
The kid did assault and batter the other children.
Then he spat on the teacher.
That is how he earned the well deserved spanking.


113 posted on 04/16/2016 11:18:17 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

If the mother determined that a punishment was just, she should have told the kid to stand still and take it like a big boy. Instead, she filmed the tantrum. Probably had facebook stardom in mind. That part is working out for her, for now.

If the punishment was not just, the article says she has a right to deny it. But she herself was truant so many times, she is letting her son take the fall for her.

The article never says what the child did to deserve the punishment. I sincerely hope it was not for being late or absent, over which the child has no control. Nor does he seem to be getting much support at home in terms of correct behavior.

This mother needs court-ordered parenting classes — as if the state could actually give any effective education. Churches really, really need to address the cultural shortfall caused by unmarrieds raising children, and children being raised by media.


114 posted on 04/16/2016 11:26:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: TaxPayer2000

115 posted on 04/16/2016 11:28:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TaxPayer2000

Mom Fail


116 posted on 04/16/2016 11:33:19 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to you.")
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To: TaxPayer2000

Mom needs paddled til she gets her act together.


117 posted on 04/16/2016 11:37:56 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: fruser1

“Absence of spanking in childhood leads to batons, tazers, and guns in adulthood.”

AMEN! Could not be stated more concisely.


118 posted on 04/16/2016 11:41:32 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: MrEdd

KMA


119 posted on 04/16/2016 11:42:09 AM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: TaxPayer2000
Her son has had 18 unexcused absences this school year and she was once arrested for his truancy.

Parenting seems to be a serious issue in this family. I would not want to be the teacher of that child.

120 posted on 04/16/2016 11:43:17 AM PDT by nclaurel
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