Nobody is hitting my kid. Not only was this beyond harsh, it was humiliating, too. I still wonder why people have their kids in these schools.
Spare the rod....
Happened to me a number of times as a kid. Not a problem. I deserved it and my parents backed the school. A couple of swats is NOT very harsh!
Not as harsh as I was likely to get at home.
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
“Nobody is hitting my kid.”
In hind sight, so to speak, it would have been better if the mother had administered the paddling.
Or, just go to the likely source of the problem and paddle the mother.
First of all your Freeper page says you are a home schooling momma emeritus and grandma. So no one was ever going to hit one of your kids anyway! Secondly, the schools got God out of the buildings in the 60’s and had no support from parents when kids did go bad thus the loss of corporal punishment due to law suits and permissive policies. So for many students there was no early correction of bad behaviors before they got worse in these students over time. The southern schools held on for years but finally most have dropped the practice. If the little brat did such damage then I’m glad she got swatted...well no one says the kid actually died(oh really...a few little red marks...pay the family a million dollars/sarcasm) and it is a matter of personal perception as to whether or not the principal actually had real hatred for the little girl...plus the mom just stood there and let it happen. If the mom was negative against spanking she should have told the the principal to hold her fire and let her, the mom, do the punishing.