Posted on 05/03/2021 12:03:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
A Florida elementary school principal is under investigation for whacking a 6-year-old girl with a paddle in a shocking incident that was captured on video by the student’s mom, according to a local report.
Melissa Carter, head of Central Elementary School in Clewiston, was filmed bending the child over and hitting her several times with the wooden paddle, local outlet WINK-TV reported.
“The hatred with which she hit my daughter, I mean it was a hatred that, really I’ve never hit my daughter like she hit her,” the girl’s mom told the TV station in Spanish. “I had never hit her.”
The mom, who wasn’t named in the report, said she was called by the school on April 13 because her daughter had apparently caused about $50 worth of damage to a computer. She went to the school to pay the fee — but was sent to the principal’s office, where she found her child with Carter and a school clerk.
Then “the principal started to scream,” the tearful mom said.
The parent looked around and got nervous after noticing a lack of surveillance cameras.
So she hid her phone in her purse and decided to record the brutal punishment — fearing that authorities wouldn’t believe her otherwise. “Nobody would have believed me,” the mom told the outlet. “I sacrificed my daughter, so all parents can realize what’s happening in this school.”
She took her daughter to a doctor later that day to document the red marks and bruises caused by the paddle, the report said. “I’m going to get justice for my daughter because if I could not do it in front of her, I’m going to do it with justice,” the woman said.
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Then blame the mother. She gave the ok.
You woke youngsters need to read history. Since the inception of schools, the rod has been used to impart painful lessons in discipline. A swat from a teacher will act as the rod of correction.
Schools lack discipline. What is your remedy for out of control students?
They used to have tools. Those have been taken away by liberals and attorneys. Now the teachers fear the students.
From 1965 until I graduated HS, my dad, who was retired Army, would always sign us up on the first day at a new school. He always told the principle that he had their permission to spank us kids. But then he warned them that the punishment better be be just and appropriate or he would come down and whip the principle.
Every hack I got was deserved
Yep. And I got a lot of paddlings.. I deserved them all.
We got swats in fact I was a regular bring it back
I’ve never been hit, and as far as I know none of my peers were ever hit in school. Always assumed it was illegal. As in assault and battery.
I draw the line when the Paddler has a boner while doing it. I think we can all agree on that
Yep, and coach liked the paddle with the holes in it.
If paddling kids is a punishable offense, the vice principal at my high school should have been on death row.
Mine’s probably long dead being 50+ years ago..........
Was mother-of-the-year given the choice of “daughter gets paddled or you pay for the damaged equipment”?
A PE coach in my school named his paddle.
Major Ashburn.
And boy did it!
Legal when I was a kid.............60 years ago when I was this kid’s age. I only got smacked a couple of times.............
LOL, I got paddled twice in school, both when I was in 7th grade in a school on a Navy base overseas.
I deserved it both times.
I got paddled once by Mr. Nutter who was teaching Spanish, and I blurted out in the middle of class “Andale Andale, Arriba, Arriba!” He was not amused, but the paddling was not bad. I didn’t like Mr. Nutter or his class.
The other time I got paddled was by Mr. Woods, who I liked immensely and who was a great teacher. Mr. Woods had served in the Marines, was about 5’6”, extremely fit, with darkly tanned skin, and at least six lines on his forehead which was topped by short curly hair, and forearms that looked like they had been transplanted from Popeye. He was also the baseball coach for George Dewey Junior-Senior High. Before class began on the first day of school, he told us, in clear, calm terms, his rules for class. No talking was prominent. He said anyone talking in class would be paddled, and he showed us what we would be paddled with. It looked exactly like a cricket bat.
With holes in it.
Well, I talked on the first day of class, and he calmly told me to stay after class. That day, I ended up with five of my seventh grade comrades waiting after class for Mr. Woods. Well, he walked back into the classroom where we were waiting, and he was carrying that paddle. We watched as he had the first kid bend over and grab his ankles, and after two swings, the gentle kind you might see a baseball player at bat do while the pitcher was figuring out what to throw, he suddenly swung hard, and with a loud “SMACK!” hit the kid in the buttocks.
The kid straightened up, wide eyed, grimacing and going “Aghh! AGHH!” and then stumbled out of the classroom, his white-knuckled fingers digging deeply into his cheeks from each side as we watched in startled fear! That swat didn’t seem ANYTHING like what Mr. Nutter delivered, which was laughable. I think the reaction of the first kid made it even worse.
I was next, and as I grabbed my ankles, I peered back between my spread legs at Mr. Woods and his paddle. He gave two premonitory gentle swings, and I heard him saying “You never know when it is going to hit...” and then suddenly, with a loud “SMACK!” he swatted me in the rear end.
My mom had hit me pretty hard with a belt before and had left red marks, but it was NOTHING compared to this. My bottom burned as if I had sat on red hot coals, or alternatively, as if I had sat on a hive of bees! I wasn’t a wimp, but he REALLY whacked me pretty hard, and I straightened up and went out the door exactly the same way the kid before me had!
Well.
Word certainly got around, and NOBODY did ANYTHING untoward in his class for the rest of that year. I remember being in a circle of kids who wanted to know what it was like, and I didn’t have to exaggerate to tell them, just as I have here. I even did a demonstration in that circle of wide-eyed kids of grabbing my ankles, complete with a loud verbal mimicking of the “SMACK!”, replete with me making the “ARGHHH” noises and grabbing my buttocks fiercely and I dug in my fingers in pain!
I didn’t know at the time, but I was doing ALL of Mr. Woods’ work there. I have no doubt that is exactly what he expected us to do...”educate” the other kids!
There were two lessons I learned from that:
First, that telling people how they will be punished for crimes, in clear and simple terms, and following through with that punishment immediately and to the letter, is not being cruel. It is being consistent and fair. To this day, I NEVER faulted Mr. Woods for paddling me.
Secondly, setting an example has a great deal of value. Following through with a punishment, not softening it, not delaying it, and making it painful, ensured that the word got out, and nobody wanted to break laws laid down by Mr. Woods.
Sister Virginia picked me up and shook me because I kept taking off my shoes in 1st grade.
I never took my shoes off again.
I am now 58. Scared for life.
more kids need to be paddled. that’s the problem is there is NO discipline anymore.
I got more in HS than in ALL of elementary and Middle school combined!..................
I got paddled many times when I was in elementary school (early 1960s).
What sucked was I’d get it in school and then get it again when I got home.
bull. get over yourself.
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