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Police are investigating a Florida principal who was recorded paddling a 6-year-old student in front of the child's mother.
CLEWISTON, Fla. -- Disturbing video shows a school principal in Florida hitting a 6-year-old student with a wooden paddle.
The student's mother recorded the incident on her cell phone last month. The child's mother said she did not give consent for the child to be hit and now the police are involved.
In the video, Central Elementary School Principal Melissa Carter uses a paddle to the student while Cecilia Self, a clerk at the school, holds the girl's hands down.
Afterward, Carter berated the child.
"If your mom wants to come up to the school and spank you, and we can watch, that's going to happen," she told the girl.
The mother said before the beating she was brought into Carter's office. She said she noticed there were no surveillance cameras so she secretly recorded what happened next with her phone.
The mother spoke to CBS Fort Myers affiliate WINK News but did not want to be identified.
"The hatred with which she hit my daughter, I mean, it was a hatred that, really, I've never hit my daughter like she hit her. I had never hit her. I sacrificed my daughter, so all the parents can realize what's happening in this school," she said.
The mother says she felt she couldn't intervene and stop the beating because she is undocumented.
"At no time did the mom give permission for anyone, including the principal, to paddle their child," said attorney Brent Probinsky, who is representing the mother.
As to why the mother didn't step in and say "stop doing this to my daughter," Probinsky said she told him she was frozen in fear.
"I think the mom was intimidated. The mom didn't expect this to happen. It happened very quickly and the mom said, 'I was so astounded, I was so shocked, I was just frozen for a few moments when she was paddling my child,'" said Probinsky.
Corporal punishment in schools is legal in 19 states in the U.S. including Florida. According to Probinsky, 20 of the state's 67 counties allow corporal punishment, but it is not allowed in Hendry County where this happened.
"This is child abuse. She should be charged with a crime and suffer those consequences," said Probinsky.
He not only wants Carter to be arrested, but he also wants to make sure she never works at another school. He added that she is now on administrative leave from the school and the State Attorney is investigating.
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F. Chris Curran, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Florida
At least 92,000 K-12 students in the U.S. were paddled or spanked at school in the 2015-2016 school year. dannikonov/iStock via Getty Images Plus
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The image of a teacher paddling or spanking a student at school may seem to belong in a history book – as archaic a practice as the dunce cap. However, for thousands of students across America each year, the use of corporal punishment for violating school rules is still a routine part of their education .
Surprising to many, corporal punishment in schools remains legal in 19 states nationwide . In the 2015-2016 school year, more than 92,000 public school students were paddled or spanked at the hands of school personnel, with most of these incidents concentrated in fewer than 10 states, mostly in the South .
Corporal punishment has again captured national attention following the release of a video in May 2021 of a Florida principal paddling a young girl . The video, secretly captured by the student’s mother, shows the principal striking the student with a wooden paddle in response to her damaging a computer. While a violation of district policy, the principal’s actions were deemed legal by both the local sheriff’s office and the state attorney’s office .
Many who have viewed the video have questioned how this practice remains legal and in use in the United States. As an educational researcher who studies school discipline – and as a former teacher who has seen other teachers use this practice – I have found that the answer to this question is complex.
In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ingraham v. Wright that corporal punishment in schools is constitutional, establishing a federal standard for its continued legal use.
However, these efforts have not been able to get much traction. Louisiana’s bill failed to pass in the House , with critics pointing to a preference for local school districts to make the decision. In fact, the last state ban occurred in 2011 , when New Mexico outlawed the practice .
Research that I have conducted with others shows this deference to local school districts is common . In our 2018 study on corporal punishment, we found that state bans generally come after local school district bans or reductions in use.
For example, Rhode Island enacted a state ban on corporal punishment in 2002 , even though the practice had not been used in the state since 1977 because of local decisions . In North Carolina, the practice has been eliminated by all districts in the state since 2019, but a subsequent bill to formalize this ban at the state level failed to advance to law .
For many local leaders and educators, the continued use of corporal punishment reflects shared community norms and a belief that the practice is beneficial to maintaining order in schools. For many state policymakers, there is a general belief that such decisions should be made at the local level. Unfortunately, research suggests that this deference to local decisions to use corporal punishment is harmful for students.
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Though studies of the impact of corporal punishment in schools are limited, those that exist suggest the practice harms students’ academic performance and future behavior . Such negative outcomes have also been linked with corporal punishment use in the home by parents .
The burden of these negative impacts is disproportionately experienced by students of color and boys. Black students are two to three times as likely as their white peers to experience corporal punishment, and boys make up about 80% of those subjected to the practice.
Based on such evidence, many national and international organizations recommend against the use of corporal punishment in schools. Former acting Secretary of Education John B. King called explicitly for U.S. schools to cease the practice . Despite this, the U.S. has not joined the over 100 countries worldwide that ban corporal punishment in schools.
For many educators, the appeal of corporal punishment may be its efficiency. It can be quickly administered by a teacher or principal with limited commitment of time or institutional resources. Though unproductive in the long term, it may result in compliance in the short term.
It is important, then, for discussions about bans on corporal punishment to include alternatives. In fact, not doing so may result in schools trading corporal punishment for other negative disciplinary practices like suspension .
In my own research , my colleague and I found that when school districts serving large proportions of Black or Hispanic students decrease or stop using corporal punishment, suspension rates tend to increase. In contrast, suspension rates decreased in districts with more white students.
Given the negative effects of corporal punishment and the risk that bans alone could lead to increased suspensions in schools with more minority students, how should educators and policymakers approach the issue?
There are alternative approaches to corporal punishment and suspension that offer promise for eliminating the practice of paddling students while also ensuring that students remain in school to learn. Restorative practices and positive behavior interventions are such examples. These approaches focus on addressing student trauma, building relationships and rewarding positive behavior.
A focus on building a strong school climate – characterized by supportive relationships between teachers and students as well as engaging instructional practice – also holds promise for improved student behavior without corporal punishment.
Ultimately, gaining local support for corporal punishment bans may be easier if schools know more effective alternatives are available.
This article is republished from The Conversation , a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. It was written by: F. Chris Curran , University of Florida .
F. Chris Curran has received funding from the National Institute of Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the American Educational Research Association for work on school discipline.

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I was spanked as a child, in school and at home, and I’m OK with it.
I fully expect to see some push-back after writing that sentence, but listen: it was not at all traumatizing to my elementary school-aged self, and I never, ever, felt like I was abused by my teachers or my parents.
Believe it or not, I feel like my experiences with corporal punishment helped make me a better person. Don’t worry, I’ll explain this in greater detail later, but first, before we really dive into it, let me tell you a little bit about me.
I’m an Alabama native who grew up in Dickson County. I attended public schools there from first grade through 12th, and I graduated from Dickson County Senior High School in 1999.
My children, five-year-old twins, are enrolled in Robertson County Schools. They’re Kindergartners. I was not much older than they are now when I walked into Oakmont Elementary School for the first time.
Those familiar with Dickson County Schools may remember that Dickson Junior High, now Dickson Middle, had an annex for seventh graders back in the day. That’s the old Oakmont. It’s where I started school in 1986, and it’s where I had both of my experiences with corporal punishment.
I was six-years-old and in the first grade the first time I was paddled in school.
I remember being in class and working on an assignment. I was into it, so I barely noticed my teacher get up from her desk. Next thing I know, she’s standing in front of me.
Apparently, my neighbor was copying my paper, and I had no idea it was happening.
Instead of just punishing the neighbor, she decided to punish us both. Her reason for punishing me, she told me, was that I should have realized what was happening and put a stop to it. Instead, I was enabling my neighbor.
I didn’t agree with her decision to paddle me then, and I don’t agree with it now, but I will admit that I did learn a valuable lesson from the experience. From that day on, I was more aware of my surroundings, and later, when someone tried to copy my paper again, I stopped it.
My second paddling came one year later, in second grade.
This time, I was completely at fault, and I deserved what I got, at school and at home.
More than 30 years have passed, and I can still see him. He was a tiny thing, and one day, he had an upset stomach, which led to an unfortunate accident on the playground. I pitied him but never said so. After the incident, this little boy was the subject of jokes and gossip. It wasn’t fair, but my seven-year-old mind didn’t recognize it at the time.
So, when I found myself seated across the table from him one day while we were eating lunch in the cafeteria, I tried my level best to ignore him.
He seemed intent on talking to me, though. Love his heart.
Soon, the other kids started whispering about us, and to prove I didn’t like him, I poured chocolate milk all over his mashed potatoes. It was wrong. And I would later apologize and mean it.
In this case, it wasn't the spanking that made the biggest impact. It was the expression on my teacher’s face when she saw what I did. I adored her, and I’d disappointed her. It was too much.
Technically, what I did could be considered an act of bullying, but back then, things were different. Getting “picked on” at school was “part of growing up,” according to the grown-ups in my life, and it happened to me more than once.
The first time I was in second grade. If memory serves, it wasn’t long after the milk incident and my second paddling. Coincidence, maybe? But, I got to a point where I could no longer see the blackboard, so I went to the eye doctor and I ended up in glasses. The minute I returned to school, I became “four eyes.” I owned it, so the name-calling didn’t last long.
I was 13, and there was a popular teacher who designated Friday as game day in his classroom. One of our favorites was volleyball, played at our desks. He’d string a net across the center of the room, dividing the desks in half, and we’d all face each other and play.
One Friday, I was wearing black and white – black jeans, white shirt – and my hair bow got tangled in the net as I was making my way to my desk. I’m sure this teacher thought it was a harmless joke at the time, but he called out, “Free Willy, she’s stuck in the net.”
Kids can be cruel when given the proper ammunition, and boy, did they have it in my case. I’ve never been what you would call skinny, and up until that moment, it hadn’t bothered me. But, being compared to a killer whale was nothing short of devastating, and as a teenager, I struggled with diets and self-esteem.
Eventually, I came to the realization that the only opinion that really mattered was my own, and I decided to love myself no matter my size. It wasn’t easy. It took YEARS, but I got there.
Today, I’m a mother. I’m a wife. I’m a daughter, an aunt. I’m a college graduate and a writer. I like to think I’ve got my act together, for the most part. Everyone has bad days – you’re lying if you say otherwise.
I was spanked – twice in school and more than that at home. Most of the time, I deserved it, and I learned from it. I wouldn’t be the person I am today – driven, goal-oriented and confident in my own skin – without my collective experiences.
I am not a victim, and I will argue tooth and nail with anyone who claims otherwise.
I had strict parents who did the best they could to raise me the right way.
I’m grateful. I’m glad I'm their daughter.
Reach Nicole Young at 615-306-3570 or nyoung@tennessean.com.

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