Posted on 05/04/2021 10:16:41 AM PDT by Skywise
Authorities are investigating a Florida principal who was seen on camera paddling a student for damaging a computer. WINK reports the child’s mother recorded the video of Central Elementary School Principal Melissa Carter. It reportedly happened April 13. WINK reports the school called the 6-year-old girl’s mother saying she’d damaged a computer and that there would be a $50 fee.
The mother went to the school to pay the fee and was taken to the principal’s office. Her daughter, the principal and a school clerk were in the room. The mother said she began to get nervous, so she hit record on her phone.
She told WINK the principal “started to scream.” She is then seen paddling the little girl with a wooden paddle three times.
After the first hit, the child turned around crying with her hand on her bottom, and the principal said, “no, put your hands down” before swinging twice more.
“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 mother told WINK. “I had never hit her.”
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That's how troubled I am over this.
First, I don’t think any kid under the age of ten ought to be given any computer/tab asset via the school, or at home.
If this was a accident....why paddle? This part of the story is missing and it’d make no sense if this were a total accident to discipline the kid.
Is corporal punishment even still legal?
Not a 6 year old that’s just wrong.
But when you get into middle school a crack from a pointer was De rigueur in the Catholic school I attended. Heck if my dad knew I got whacked by the nun I’d get it it 10 times worse when I got home.
Color of principal?
Color of girl/mother?
I’m surprised a school even has a paddle in this day & age.
Having said that, when I was a ked, EVERY teacher had a paddle. The female teachers would go get the PE teacher or basketball coach to really deal out punishment better than they could. Nothing like a 6” 6” man to swing a paddle.
Also, it doesn’t look like the teacher in the video wielded that paddle as hard as she could have.
But again, times are different now.
Is corporal punishment even still legal?According to an article I read yesterday, it is not allowed in this particular school district.
“I had never hit her.”
That’s why somebody else had to.
Guessing on my own here - Given the cost of the fee - I bet the kid threw a keyboard on the ground as part of a temper tantrum or maybe threw a mouse at a teacher?
Maybe the kid is an ill-disciplined lout.
And maybe the Principal is a sadist. Sadists do seek govt positions to wreak havoc from.
Not enough information to decide anything.
So mom, how do you hit your 6 year old little girl?
100%.
Exactly.
Why? Would you have sat there and allowed it to happen and recorded it?
Not me or the Mrs.
So mom, how do you hit your 6 year old little girl?
My guess is that she doesn't have a government employee and union member hold her kid in place while she uses a wooden paddle.
“You’re a jerk.”
What did he say that was wrong? I agree with him 100%
That was my thought.
Would have to know the kid though.
My son just has a sense of doing the right thing at all times. He does have autism though. My daughter is quite the opposite. I caught her stealing a sugar daddy by the age of 4 or 5. She picked up every bad trait from other kids at day care her first year and never had a second year. Spanking her butt with bare hand did nothing so I made a paddle. That did the trick.
With our son having autism and our daughter being susceptible to learning bad behaviors, we pulled them out of public school in grades 1 & 2 and home schooled them.
You may be onto something....
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