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| Jordan Riak of PTAVE sent this, with information forwarded by Jimmy Dunne, People Opposed to Paddling Students, Houston, Texas, October 17, 2000 |
| I am a concerned parent of 4 boys. My oldest is out of school now, but I have three more in public schools. My son was paddled in one of Tennessee's public schools. This child had an injury to his back which consisted of two broken bones and a compressed fracture caused from a four-wheeler accident. The school did not comply with any of the instructions from the doctor and therefore I had to make two trips to the school to remind them of his injury and the conditions ordered by the doctor. One teacher was threatening to paddle him for being late for class, so the doctor wrote out a statement telling them to give him extra time to get to class because he couldn't walk as fast as normal. |
| Well the school decided when he was recovered from this injury and one of the teachers there paddled him for being turned around in his seat. He hit him so hard my child was numb from the waist down. This teacher told him to get in the classroom and have seat, and my child told him he couldn't just yet. |
| This teacher has hit 4 other students and left bruises on them too. I carried my son to the doctor the next day and he called human services but they would not respond to a school punishment so we called the police. We did have a meeting with the school principal and superintendent but nothing was done to this teacher. The school could not find their records of the doctor's statements but I had mine. This teacher is still teaching and paddling with excessive force, but yet they tell me he has done nothing wrong. Will someone tell me why a stranger can hit my child in a way that I would never dream of? |
| I don't bruise my children but the school systems can and get away with it. This teacher did. No child deserves to be hit. What do adults get for doing wrong???? I won't ever accept a stranger having the right to do harm and leave a mark on my child. |
A Parent from Tennessee |
| One spinal injury (out of how many?) |
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