[hanamizu]

Mrs. Ross had her paddle just waiting for BS like this and she used it.

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My teaching career included the decline and fall of the paddle. When I started, 3 swats administered by the teacher (witnessed by another teacher). Classroom doors were opened ‘to encourage the others’. Then parents insisted on a ‘do not paddle my precious child’ list. The list grew larger and larger as time went on. The paddles were removed from the classrooms. But the principal still wielded one.

Phone call home, “I can paddle him or you can come and get him”.

Now, no one paddles and even suspensions are discouraged except for the most outrageous offenses.

The names of the people and even the name of the school pretty much lets you know who is doing what to whom. A medical condition, indeed.

[Morgana]

See that’s is why I’m so glad I did not become a teacher.!

Yes I remember some of that too! I was in HS when they started to remove the paddle but as HS kids we had the feeling that if these kids did not want to behave then just suspend them. We wanted to learn we wanted to be there and if they did not then send them on their own to work at McDonalds.

Really though it starts young and you have to make kids behave as little as possible if you want them behaving as HS kids and adults. I don’t know the story about this little girl, I’m not in her life but I do know how she would have been punished for this in my day. At the very least she would have been ask to apologize to that other child and shake hands, at the very most she would have her parents called or been paddled or sent home for a day or so. Back then you did not want this, you did not want your parents knowing you were bad at school.

[caltaxed]

The 6 year old in the video is doing a poor job of acting sweet. The school must follow proper documentation and escalation to avoid litigation when this kid seriously injures other students.

Too many lawyers and too few parents involved in these kids lives.

[Louis Foxwell]

This is a school system where “caring for children” is an abstract concept. Traumatizing a young child with police imprisonment guarantees that child will grow to become precisely what they are teaching him to become, a criminal.

[erkelly]

In my day, a paddling at school would guarantee another one at home. I can’t imagine arresting and charging a child for throwing a tantrum, and kicking or hitting, or whatever. A six-year-old is not fully in charge of his/her emotions. This is crazy and I hope the judge has some common sense and dismisses this! And by the way a child can have sleep apnea. In an infant it can be fatal. Have you ever heard of SIDS?