You don’t see the paddling on the video. The report I read said he spit on another child. Hitting an hysterical five year old with a wooden paddle is abuse. It is also wrong that they lied to the mother to get her consent. You know if the mom wanted to give him a spanking when he got home for his behavior that would be one thing. This is entirely different. I don’t agree with corporal punishment in schools. But if it is going to be used it should be limited for severe infractions and not used for children under 10 years of age. It should also require a signed consent form from the parent and at least 2 witnesses.
Have you ever spanked or been spanked?
Bedroom play doesn’t count
You do not know a whole lot of public school children under 10 years of age, do you? There are some real pieces of work at FOUR. I am not for teachers spanking children. However, if you could see what some children do in class without ANY consequence at home, you would think that someone needs to be doing some disciplining. Should it be the state? Ugh.
Individual responsibility needs to be stressed constantly. I could have used with that myself along the way.
missing school when you're 5yro is not the kids fault...
I suspect he's got attention disorder...
this is not the worse of the worst but I still don't like it...