A distressing video has surfaced showing an elementary school principal and clerk in southwest Florida paddling a 6-year-old for allegedly scratching a computer screen. The child\u2019s mother, who recorded the incident, claimed she did so because she feared no one would believe her. Although Florida law doesn\u2019t explicitly ban corporal punishment, the school district\u2019s handbook prohibits it. The mother described the paddling as brutal and potentially harmful, both physically and psychologically. The family\u2019s attorney has called the punishment \u201caggravated battery,\u201d and the mother has taken her daughter to a doctor for documentation. The incident has sparked outrage, with calls for justice and an appropriate response from the school district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A distressing video has surfaced showing an elementary school principal and clerk in southwest Florida paddling a 6-year-old for allegedly scratching a computer screen. The child\u2019s mother, who recorded the incident, claimed she did so because she feared no one would believe her. Although Florida law doesn\u2019t explicitly ban corporal punishment, the school district\u2019s handbook…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n