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
He needs a dad. Still it is not his fault that his mom tolerates and encourages such antics(his shooting the bird). Making sure he gets some help to overcome those family dynamics is important.
That would be the perfect situation, to show the child that the parents agree, and it will not be tolerated.
UNexcused absences. It wasn’t the mother that decided they were unexcused. She had a good idea after unexcused absence 3 and 4.
Forms of discipline start even at a younger age.
“Psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz told IE: “There is really no data to say that corporal punishment effects positive change.”
Another fool checking in.
The video does NOT show the brat being paddled. Moreover, if it was done, it was only to be a single swat, as the Asst. Principal said. And I doubt if it was done, it would have been painful. You gotta watch the video.
“...19 states allow corporal punishment in schools. They are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.”
Good for them.
A very interesting tally of the stats for discipline for this Jasper County Primary School.
http://ocrdata.ed.gov/Page?t=s&eid=237053&syk=6&pid=2000
He needs a spanking. He is assaulting teachers and students, and spitting in their faces. He has been warned and counseled.
He’s obviously big enough to know what he did is wrong. He keeps doing it because he is allowed to.
I think a spanking by his mom would be appropriate. Not a paddling by a school official.
My principal used to whack us and when it was over would ask us to sign his paddle. First and only time I’ve been asked for my autograph.
It is ? Where's my flying car, and Victoria's Secret Supermodel Robots to service my every need ?
Guess he wanted a nice memento of everyone that met the “Board of Education.” ;-D
I got the paddle exactly twice in my school years. In the first grade for throwing rocks (in my defense, I’d just been shoved down by two bullies, but the teacher didn’t see that - I was just trying to defend myself). The second was for carrying a throwing star in junior high school (hey, it was the thing to do in the ‘80s). Well, okay, not so much for carrying it, but for sticking it into the ceiling tiles. Both were well deserved. Both were well remembered.
The offenses happened at school. Mom is busy posting pics on Facebook of her five year old shooting a bird.
Oh throwing stars, thanks for the memory!
Did he use one of those big wooden paddles with holes drilled in it to reduce drag? If not, he didn’t get what I got several times. Funny thing is, I got the message and stopped doing whatever it was that got me paddled. Should be routine procedure at every school.
So? The fact the mom is an idiot does not make what the teacher and principal did right. A five year old should not be paddled by school officials. It.is.wrong.
I can’t believe the number of posters who are writing as if a five year old child is a hardened psychopath with plans for a mass killing percolating in his mind.
I now have a list of people I would never allow around my grandchildren.
As usual when caught in a situation that might be troublesome from a legal standpoint the school cannot comment due to student privacy rules.
They could be completely guilty in this. But one wrong word and a jury could grant millions of tax payer dollars, guilty or innocent. So I don’t know what they should do.
Why film it and not talk about how you were threatened with jail time if you didn’t allow it right there on the phone? Did she say anything about it?
FreegARDS
I am not sure. I do think the mom is a flake. I sure would have asked the principal to state a direct threat of jail time into the phone. If it was only implied that paddle would not have made a downswing at all.
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