The internet is outraged after a mom posted a video on social media of her child getting paddled by his school’s principal.
Five-year-old Thomas from Georgia was going to be paddled by school administrators, who told his mother that he would be suspended if she didn’t approve the spanking.
Shana Marie Perez posted the disturbing video to Facebook, which showed the school’s principal and the assistant principal trying to hit the crying, struggling boy on his bottom with a wooden paddle. She took the video on her cellphone, as she pretended she was texting.
“Mommy, help me!” Thomas cried.
At one point Thomas ran over to his mom, and the principal said, “Nope, Momma can’t help. Momma might help if she stood outside the door.”
School district officials are investigating the incident, although they noted corporal punishment is allowed in the district. Corporal punishment, defined by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry as when “a supervising adult deliberately inflicts pain upon a child in response to a child’s unacceptable behavior and/or inappropriate language,” is legal in 19 states.
Perez told The Atlanta-Journal Constitution that her son tried to punch another child and wound up spitting on a classmate before this encounter. His mother was even arrested two weeks ago for truancy because Thomas missed 18 days of school for doctor’s appointments, that Perez said should have gotten him excused.
“They told me if he could not get a paddling he would have to be suspended and if he got suspended for even one day I WILL go to jail for truancy,” Perez wrote on Facebook. “I could not go to jail or my kids would have nothing.”
The district is currently investigating this incident and looking into its discipline policies at this time.
Georgia, along with 18 other states in South, Southwest and Midwest allow corporal punishment. According to the NY Daily News, The Supreme Court ruled in the Ingraham V. Wright case of 1977 that the spanking of kids in schools does not violate the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” or the right to due process.
Watch this disturbing video:
Do you think Perez was right in letting the principals’ discipline her child? Do you agree with corporal punishment?
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[Featured Image: Facebook/Shana Marie Perez]
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