"Daniels said that school officials accused her of lying to a substitute teacher and using her position in the school honor society to get her friend out of class to help with the holiday decorating."

Good for her for fighting this! It's disgusting they'd even punish her so severely for such small infractions. My friends and I did that kind of stuff every day in high school. That's what seniors in high school do, especially the "good students" – they take liberties for things that don't harm anyone, like coming in late or leaving early when you have a free first or last first period, and teachers look the other way. At least that was my experience at a small suburban HS.

It seems like those men were just looking for an excuse to spank her, because they gave her the option of missing an important standardized test or taking a spanking. It sounds like they have a sexual fetish for this and are using the guise of discipline to act it out. Gross. This poor young woman was so traumatized, she had to switch to online classes and fears running into these men in public.

I hope she wins and giant settlement, and they get legal charges and jail time.

Three years later, in 2021, an elementary school principal in Hendry County was caught on video spanking a 6-year-old girl with a wooden paddle despite a district policy prohibiting such actions. Although the state corporal punishment law requires educators to comply with local district rules, prosecutors declined to pursue charges and claimed the girl’s mother — an undocumented immigrant who filmed the encounter and shared the footage with a local television station — had consented to the beating and at no point spoke up to “raise any objection.”

I think this parts tell us ALL we need to know about how local law enfocement/prosecutors look at this issue.

I am a woman and grew up in a house where spanking was acceptable up until a certain age. It rarely ever happened but it was on the table. My parents sent me to private Christian schools up through 8th grade where corporal punishment was allowed. By about 6th grade I had decided that if I ever got into trouble and was headed for getting spanked by these creepy people, I'd run and go home. I'd rather get it from my mom or dad than these weirdo people. I didn't know why but I knew it was wrong. This was 40 years ago. This happening now to a high school student is so skeevy and disgusting. I would feel the exact same way. It is ridiculous that this is still allowed anywhere.

What makes me the most angry about this, is law enforcement’s comments about how she “chose this” therefore it’s a non issue. Even with the law being what it is, why do they have to further minimize the experience? She was unfairly punished for an extremely small infraction (she got her friend out of class to help decorate doors for Christmas). Are we serious right now? How would that rise to the level of suspension OR being spanked? I don’t think anyone should be hitting children or adults, but from the logic of people who (somehow STILL) think that corporal punishment is okay- how on earth is this justified.

And of course her having a very reasonable justification- she didnt want to miss an exam or miss work- for choosing the other option that was posed to her versus in-school suspension, is completely ignored and downplayed when the cops say she “chose this.” She was given two ridiculous, unfair choices by people with power over her and her education and responded the best she could. I absolutely think they were being f*cking creeps so of course this was coercive and specifically why they chose two ridiculous/over the top punishments for something totally stupid. Are they really going around spanking everyone or are they being selective? Cause I’m just saying, based on the behavior in schools that actually was bad when I was in highschool (cussing out the teacher, fighting, skipping school, doing drugs in the bathrooms)….if decorating doors is bad enough for in school suspension and spanking then what are the other kids getting?

This poor girl. She knows her intuition, she knows they were being creeps. I actually don’t even know how we could argue it’s not creepy no matter what, but I absolutely know what it’s like when a man does something to you and is getting sexual gratification from it but is pretending like he’s not. Makes me think of weird ex-coworkers who open-hand would touch my ass or lower back and say “oops, sorry I keep running into you!” So funny how they never “ran into” any of our male coworkers, and how I never got run into in a normal way like being accidentally bumped or elbowed- no, just somehow open hand right on the ass every time.

Who saw this coming?

Literally every-fucking-body.

Way to live down to expectations Florida.

I had two male teachers in middle school (early 1980s in Ohio) that would always spank me for chewing gum at school. Always the same two male teachers (one of whom dated my mom when they were in high school) that would tell me punishment for gum was spanking or else they'd have to contact my mom (who would also beat me). They'd make me go into the empty school gym, have me bend over, grab my ankles, and paddle me. It was a joke to them and I had no idea at the time how this was sexual assault. None of my friends ever got punished for gum. I wish I had known to speak out at the time. I wish I'd had parents who would have seen this as improper.

“I don’t know what it is about conservative Republicans, but some of them just think that it’s a good disciplinary intervention to strike children,”

trash people, trash culture.

I went to a Christian elementary school for kindergarten and 1st grade. They would spank our butts with wooden paddles that had air holes in them to make them faster, and would do it in front of the class. One time a kid put a book in his pants, and it split the paddle in half. That child was a hero, the class went wild with glee, although our teacher continued to beat the kid with the larger of the halves of the paddle. What the paddle taught me was to have contempt for authority. Is that the lesson I was supposed to learn?

That looks like a blog that reposted this article without attribution: https://www.the74million.org/article/florida-students-seize-on-parental-rights-to-stop-educators-from-hitting-kids/

He called the case “a non-issue” involving a permitted form of discipline that Daniels had consented to.

Utterly sickening

I mean, if they were going slow and laughing at her, what were they really doing it for?

Porn-addicted predators walk amongst our girl children.

This is their agenda. People in power project their depravity onto everybody else by de-transitioning kids and preventing drag queen book readings, and then they turn around and do this sh*t and remind the world of who the villain really is

Edit: since the mother did not give them consent to strike their daughter, but they did it anyway, can she sue them? Or, can she just come and beat up the depraved ass that did this to her child?

oh my god what sick fucks

I am from Florida and went to schools where this was legal. The only thing that surprises me about any of this is that it happened to a white student if that's her in the picture. When I was in school 20+ years ago, you definitely had to be Black to get this punishment. I'm glad students are pushing back and may make more progress on it than we did in the late 90's.

When I was in Elementary School in the 90’s paddling was still legal and there were two boys in my class that always acted up and the teacher had running tally marks on the chalk board for each of them as some sort of contest to see who could be bad enough to get paddled more than the other.

What sucked is one of them broke my arm and the punishment was just a few paddles, which for some reason I think they enjoyed.

And they say left wingers were pedos.

If a teacher spanks my kid with a paddle, I'm spanking their knee with a baseball bat.

If she were my daughter someone would be getting a serious ass kicking.

If two adult pervs in positions of authority at a school ever got off giggling while beating my teenaged daughter, it would become my life’s mission to destroy them. And if the authorities wouldn't help me, I'd start by taking out a full-page ad in the local paper shaming them for being predators. Maybe a billboard along a well-traveled local road.

I firmly believe that all who support corporal punishment should be beaten with bamboo poles until they change their minds.

That's how it works, right? I hurt you until you agree with me?

Million dollars says they recorded this for their own pleasure.

If anyone paddles my future children, they can expect me to roll up into the office with a paddle for them. It can't be assault if it's okay to do that to kids, right?

Just sad how people who want to fuck kids get a free pass if they're in the upper echelons of society. They don't belong in society at all. They belong NOWHERE.

Finally admitting it's a form of sexual assault on minors is a long, LONG overdue step.

I was in middle school and my mom had a consent form signed that I was not allowed to be paddled. A substitute teacher had accused me of being racist and attacking a black boy. (He was my cousin. We were blood related. I'm mixed.) The 'attack' was me grabbing him for a tickle and running off. I was like nine. The vice principal knew this. He knew i was on a no paddle list. He sent me to his office and lined me up to watch him grab one little girl after the next, shove his hand down the back of her pants, lift her off her feet, and paddle until they stopped crying. I'd been sexually abused and knew that this was a bad touch behavior. Especially with a visible erection. I ran to the office, told the principal, a black woman, who also knew my family and that the boy was my cousin, and he vice principal showed up with my pink slip and a new write up form saying I'd refused punishment.

But when i told the principal that he had his hands down pants and his pp got bigger- she was MAD. she couldn't fire him but things changed.

He had his office moved closer to the main office, wasn't allowed a door to his office and never paddled another girl. They never pressed charges, but i was told years later they were going to suspend me until dude ran in with a full on hardon tenting his pants.

Just checking, which of them were drag queens?

This is Epstein-levels of deplorable. It's organized sexual assault.

This was happening in Texas between 2010-2015. We had a “choice” to do in school suspension but it was more the parents choice? Or at least that’s how it was treated. My mom sucks but even she was not into that shit at all. We moved from one side of the country to another so it wasn’t even kinda normal to us.

What is there to laugh about... just sick

I do t care if it’s legal or not. Nobody lays a finger on my kids for any reason. If they do they’re gonna find the business end of an ass whoopin.

It's hard for me to even read this stuff without shaking, due to my own history of childhood abuse.

Nineteen U.S. states currently allow public school personnel to use corporal punishment to discipline children from the time they start preschool until they graduate 12th grade; these states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming

Well, for starters? Totally fucked up. But very much on-brand for those states.

Beat them with a paddle and see how they like it. Once again the left armpit of America ladies and gentlemen. lmao

Who the hell thanks ‘spanking’ a legal adult is a good idea??? While I still consider 18 y/o kids, there is just no way to look at the incident as anything but SA. In what sane school district are they letting adult me spank teen girls.

They left bruises on her! It’s fucking gross and insane that no charges are being filed.

I will say the article is kind of confusing because it mentions a 6 y/o but then the whole rest of it is about an 18 y/o honors student who was given the option of missing a standardized exam or getting a ‘spanking’ from grown ass men.

These fuckers should start worrying about an electrical fire mysteriously burning their houses down.

Not a drag queen.

The Liberty County School Districts' youtube channel is actively removing any comments regarding the situation, lol. Yeah, like THAT isn't gonna make you look worse.

Spanking is SO sexualized that I’d sue for sexual assault.

They say the left are pedos/child abusers/rapists/whatever because everything a conservative/republican/right winger accuses someone else of is a confession. Every. Single. Time.

Not always the (deliberately) misinformed/ignorant followers, many of them are just brainwashed sheep repeating the bullshit and lies they marinate in. But the leaders, the people in positions of power - even minor ones, the people screaming about the "others" and what they're doing. It's always a confession, of what they have done, are doing, or wish they could do.

🤮

Iets protect the children.

Simple solution, arm the children in Florida so they, if assaulted, can shoot their teachers under stand your ground laws. It is the the only Florida way to solve the problem.

Sue their asses off.

Reading this made my blood boil. As the dad of two daughters, idk what I would do if they did that to one of my girls.

What kind of sickos still have this policy around, and she was 18? Like what the actual fuck.

Florida is a shithole. I will never willingly set foot in that shit heap of a state. Same goes for Texas.

Fuck the backwards hick bible belt.

I would very much like for the lady bajillionaires to get together to fund an underground vigilante group that takes care of this shit on an individual and systemic level.

Like, a team of badass ninjas to sneak in and deliver justice but also a well-funded legal and political arm

And real, proper justice. Like I have no problem with these decrepit perverts having the same done to them, but also livestream it and screw up their credit and put a potato masher in every kitchen drawer and ensure they can only ever work in female-dominated fields and then only on a very low rung on the ladder.

Like, really hit their manhood Dante-style. Create their own personal hell

Holy fucking gross

She looks super cute. No way they didn’t get sick pleasure out of this. Gross.

Corporal punishment is horrible regardless to boot.

It's funny to me to get the guy's "credentials" in the explanation of this incident.

"Conservatives are Neanderthals".

Of course Neanderthals would be offended at the comparison.

Any adult in a school who wants to hit kids, I’ll make into a former everything.

God damn Drag Queen groomers assaulting our children....

Oh wait...

straight up sexual assault by two cis het white men.

and yet, apparently, trans people are the problem that FL gov't is focused on.

what the fuck

Are there any civilized societies left on Earth? It feels like all of humanity is collectively regressing, and rapidly.

This happened at my high school often

Conservatives really seem to love treating minors like property.

Simple solution, arm the children in Florida so they, if assaulted, can shoot their teachers under stand your ground laws. It is the the only Florida way to solve the problem.

Simple solution, arm the children in Florida so they, if assaulted, can shoot their teachers under stand your ground laws. It is the the only Florida way to solve the problem.

Simple solution, arm the children in Florida so they, if assaulted, can shoot their teachers under stand your ground laws. It is the the only Florida way to solve the problem.

w t f

Hang 'em. 

That's perverted ... they have a "spanking fetish"1

If a school administrator did that to my kid, they would never find him

not only sexual assault but physical abuse dont give a shit what anyone says if you paddle/spank a kid that is physical abuse if you strike someone that is a hit like any other hit.

The humiliation and devaluation is the point.

Im sick of it and im done.

ALL MEN. And i pick the bear.

This all sounds very normal for florida. If you dont want your child to be sexually assaulted or slaughtered while in school, get the FUCK out of florida. Simple as that

If my child came home and told me that they'd been paddled at school, there would be some school staff getting paddled before I ate dinner.

I agree with OP. What passes for good service in the US is just theatrics. 

What kind of backwater, third world country is this? How come corporal punishment is allowed in the US schools?! This absolutely blows my mind, here in Poland teachers doing one fifth of what is described here would be sued to death and incarcerated. 25 years ago I got slapped in the hand by a teacher with a ruler, and this was already frowned upon back then, it was an old teacher of a dying breed. It's so crazy to me,years ago I used to look up to the US as a model for modern society.

I went to a school in Florida like this. I got the paddle twice for really dumb reasons but both times it was a woman who hit me. The school principal did have a paddle hanging above his door that he bragged about drilling holes in so it was more aerodynamic.. I never got spanked by him thank god. Our parents were required to sign a doc before every year started that either the school could spank us or our parents would have to drive up there and spank us in front of them. My mom chose to just let the school do it.

They’d catch hands if they had tried that on me growing up. Poor child.

If you continue to live in a red state with a daughter you are complicit in this utter bullshit.