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
Actually, there are large and growing numbers of snot-nosed kids that need a good whipping.
I’m on the principal’s side.
The principal should have paddled the idiot mother.
I would not object to the school authorities spanking my child, though I or my wife would be present.
Paddle my kid in front of me ? I don’t thinks so.
I smell a huge lawsuit coming on.
I know I got whacked pretty good by nuns in 1st and 2nd grade. I didn’t turn into a monster. I think it did me good. As a matter of fact when I complained to my dad about it once, he piled on and gave me another licking. Gheesh, it’s tough being a kid!
Did the child get a paddling because his mom didn’t take him to school or for something he did, I wonder.
they barely TOUCHED the kid with it.
he spit at a teacher.
and newswit anchorwoman cried in her dressing room!!!
another anchorwoman was outraged.
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>> Paddle my kid in front of me ? I don’t thinks so.
Not necessary if you properly control and discipline your own spawn.
But if you breed entitlement snowflakes and turn them out into society without proper character, we may find it necessary to compensate for your failures.
Just sayin’.
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.
I used to get it by the nuns as a kid in parochial school in the 50s early 60s. Usually a single swat with the pointer to the back of the head or knuckles.
Then if dad found out I needed to get whacked....i’d get whacked again.
Worked well. The real bad kids behaved....at least while in school
The mother gave permission.
“Her son has had 18 unexcused absences this school year and she was once arrested for his truancy.”
A five year old? Mom arrested? What do you think is really going on here? Bizarre all around if you ask me.
Freegards
Paddle my kid in front of me ? I don’t thinks so.
I smell a huge lawsuit coming on.
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What would you do if your child is fighting and spitting on a teacher? Would you spank them?
Yeah, I know you’re going to say your child wouldn’t do that. In this case, the mother’s history proves that she is a worthless POS and sorry mother.
Absence of spanking in childhood leads to batons, tazers, and guns in adulthood.
What does the boy’s Dad have to say?
The kid spit on a teacher. He’s about five years from juvie, and “mom” is a piece of work herself.
“is paddling really an effective way to punish a child this young?”
Yes, if done under proper control and appropriate circumstances. Is it okay for a principal to do it against the will of the parent? NO.
>> Absence of spanking in childhood leads to batons, tazers, and guns in adulthood.
You know, I read that exact same thing in the Bible!
Of course Solomon put it a little differently... probably because tazers hadn’t been invented yet. :-)
When I was a kid, the Principal used a rubber strap across the palms of the hands. Any punishment I got at school, I was guaranteed to get double at home! I only needed to get the strap once, to learn not to cut up.
I drive a bunch of 13-14 year olds on my school bus. Believe me, at least 50% of them should have had their butts paddled by their parents 10 years ago!
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