rickybobby
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- Jan 5, 2009
Scarred for life? Good grief
SeriouslyScarred for life? Good grief
Completely disgusting. All of it. The kid is FIVE. Geez, even if he missed 18 days of school, he's FIVE. In many states, Kindergarten isn't even mandatory. Why not just hold him back if he misses too many days and make him repeat Kindergarten?
This poor baby (and 5 is still a baby, IMO) is screaming for his mother to help him and those women are smiling and laughing at him. That makes my stomach turn. And when the mom says they don't spank him at home, the women seem surprised.
Georgia (and most of the rest of the south) really needs to move into 2016 and stop these ridiculous punishments. Gosh, if I was that mother, I would have taken my son right home and dared them to arrest me.
There is something strange about this entire story. Kid misses 18 days of school. 19 days and the parent goes to court, or the child can be paddled. Um, what? How could 19 absences possibly be the fault of 5 year old?!? As others have said, if the child is sick, there should be doctors notes. The fact that spanking this district (or the state, whatever) allows spanking to be a valid punishment for truancy astounds me. A 5 year old should be getting put on the bus or walked to the school door. If they are out 19 days, that's the parents fault.
Meanwhile, educators are supposed to educate, not hand out corporal punishment. You think your child would be hit, you do it.
hmm. I looked at https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/ and compared it to states that allow corporal punishment http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934191.html
Colorado: #2
Arkansas: #25
Florida: #23
Indiana: #24
Kansas: #12
Kentucky #5
N. Carolina: #21
Ohio: #22
So 8/19 states that allow corporal punishment are in the top 1/2 half. Yup. Must be a correlation.
Oh, right. The paddling was instead of the suspension. I forgot about that.Again, the boy was not paddled for truancy. He was paddled for hitting another kids, running from the staff, and spitting on staff members. The mom was given the choice between the kid being paddled or suspended and she claims to have thought that if he was suspended she would go to jail for truancy.
Normally just a quick flick to the forehead stops that quick.
Just commenting on your argument number 2 above. If you're taking a child to a pediatrician it is not always easy to get an appointment for after school, since many many other people want the same thing. And with a five year old I honestly wouldn't worry personally too much about him missing school if he needed to go to a doctor. My DD had a doctor two hours away and it was a struggle to get an afterschool appointment in the first place, and in the second place we needed to give ourselves enough time to get there, wait to be seen, be seen by a nurse, then a resident, and then the doctor and the resident. And then go for blood tests in a hospital lab that closed at a certain time. Yes, this was our situation and not the situation of those involved in this video. I'm just pointing out the vagueness and erroneous nature of a blanket statement that visits to a doctor can just be made for after school.Absolutely NOTHING adds up here.
I am just as disturbed by this mother as I am by the school system.
1. 5 year old children are not mandated to be in school (educated) So, the whole truancy thing is very very suspect. Don't believe it for one second.
2. Visits to doctors offices can be scheduled after school.
3. If there truly is a medical concern, then a 504 should be in place.
4. If children with conditions/disabilities are not to be paddled, then NO 5 year old should be paddled/hit, ever. because many disabilities are not fully recognized and diagnosed until well after 5 years of age. (Our school system absolutely refused to acknowledge that our son might have a neurological 'learning' disability and move forward with any evaluations, until WE took our son to specialists and got an excellent eval and diagnosis. By the time we got a pre-auth and got in for appointments, and then received the paperwork, he was almost 7 years of age. (yes, we could have demanded and eval, in writing, and forced the school system's hand... But, why would we want to trust THEM at that point.)
5. Judging by the video, and the post on social media sites, this mother is absolutely relishing putting her son thru this pain. I am going on the assumption that she signed the form to ALLOW the school to do this. IMHO, her fitness to parent and the custody of her children should be at stake here. NO question.
Schools are supposed to be mandated reporters of any type of abuse and/or unfit parenting.
They are only enabling it. WOW....
There are no right-or-wrongs on either side here.
ONLY WRONGS!!!!!
PS: Many of you know that this is being posted by a parent who pulled her child out of a 'Hillbilly' , 'Southern', school system.
I was pointing out the obvious... Sorry, there was no 'argument' whatsoever. But, hey... whatever.
And, how many times does a normal healthy child need to visit a pediatrician. I don't know, but I am guessing the annual check-up and well-vist to monitor over-all health and development is what is recommended. So, the obvious fact... which I stated... and will simply not argue... pasted here directly from my post... 2. Visits to doctors offices can be scheduled after school. I will add that these annual well visits can also be scheduled when school is on break.
The whole purpose of walk-in clinics is for those times when the usual bugs strike, and one cannot get into the regular doctor.
I will also add that any child that has a fever or possible serious communicable illness would not even be allowed to be in school.
(At least, that is usually the policy.. If it isn't the policy at this school, then it def. should be.)
If any child has to be under medical care and needs to see doctors more often, then they should be placed on a 504.
That is the purpose of 504 plans.
Again, there is NOTHING that adds up here in the whole story.
And, it seems the mother's side of the story is all we have.
Are you serious? Please don't be serious.
Actually, you weren't "pointing out the obvious." You were stating an opinion as fact and it is not fact. You can't just get an appointment for after school. It doesn't always work that way.I was pointing out the obvious... Sorry, there was no 'argument' whatsoever. But, hey... whatever.
And, how many times does a normal healthy child need to visit a pediatrician. I don't know, but I am guessing the annual check-up and well-vist to monitor over-all health and development is what is recommended. So, the obvious fact... which I stated... and will simply not argue... pasted here directly from my post... 2. Visits to doctors offices can be scheduled after school. I will add that these annual well visits can also be scheduled when school is on break.
The whole purpose of walk-in clinics is for those times when the usual bugs strike, and one cannot get into the regular doctor.
I will also add that any child that has a fever or possible serious communicable illness would not even be allowed to be in school.
(At least, that is usually the policy.. If it isn't the policy at this school, then it def. should be.)
If any child has to be under medical care and needs to see doctors more often, then they should be placed on a 504.
That is the purpose of 504 plans.
Again, there is NOTHING that adds up here in the whole story.
And, it seems the mother's side of the story is all we have.
Same here.Maybe the child isn't a "normal healthy child." My D has visited her doctor at least 25 times this school year. I try very, very hard to schedule them for after school (no appointments are offered before school as they start school pretty early). Gee whiz, it seems as if every single patient has the same idea. Her doctor has two appointment times that begin at a time which would allow my D to be present for an entire day. We are fortunate enough maybe 1 in 5 times to get her one of those appointments, meaning she has missed many partial days of school (at least 20 this year so far). I do rotate which classes she misses by being creative with my scheduling (so she isn't missing the same class over and over again).
There simply are not that many appointments available after school for ANY physician, and every single parent is trying to get them. Kids WILL miss school to see doctors, and I do not believe those absences should count against the child for "truancy" purposes. I have NEVER been asked to provide a doctor's note or any other "evidence" that my D is actually at the doctors. I call in, and that's it. No mess. No fuss. She does not have a 504 plan. Doesn't need one. She is a solid student and does well in her classes.
which he did, but he actually was a switch-hit paddler.)
Absolutely. Are we really to the point that when a 3 year old chomps down on your forearm we can't give him a quick flick to the forehead? No pain, no scars, no trauma but gives them enough of a startle to realize that they need to stop what's causing them to get flicked in the forehead. We're talking about the back of the upper 1/3 of a single finger, not a slap to the face.
If that is over the line, it's no wonder we have a generation entering the marketplace that is completely unable to perform basic work functions without constant praise and has no idea how to cope with any criticism at all except to just completely shut down and curl up into the fetal position.
Wait, what? Kentucky is fifth? I think that list must be flawed.
Oh, right. The paddling was instead of the suspension. I forgot about that.
Then that leads to the additional question: Why does suspension count towards truancy?
Well, there you go...here it is, all spelled out. You either give a thumbs up to the awesome cure-all of flicking your kid in the head OR you're contributing to this mass chaos of badly behaved adults, cowering in the fetal position.Absolutely. Are we really to the point that when a 3 year old chomps down on your forearm we can't give him a quick flick to the forehead? No pain, no scars, no trauma but gives them enough of a startle to realize that they need to stop what's causing them to get flicked in the forehead. We're talking about the back of the upper 1/3 of a single finger, not a slap to the face.
If that is over the line, it's no wonder we have a generation entering the marketplace that is completely unable to perform basic work functions without constant praise and has no idea how to cope with any criticism at all except to just completely shut down and curl up into the fetal position.
Absolutely. Are we really to the point that when a 3 year old chomps down on your forearm we can't give him a quick flick to the forehead? No pain, no scars, no trauma but gives them enough of a startle to realize that they need to stop what's causing them to get flicked in the forehead. We're talking about the back of the upper 1/3 of a single finger, not a slap to the face.
If that is over the line, it's no wonder we have a generation entering the marketplace that is completely unable to perform basic work functions without constant praise and has no idea how to cope with any criticism at all except to just completely shut down and curl up into the fetal position.