Comments about ‘Granger Elementary School assistant principal charged with slapping student’

our society is so ridiculous. With the way we allow our kids to act, I'm betting the student needed more than a slap.

It is a sad thing that the administrator allegedly hit a student. The part that is all too typical of administrator behavior and attitude is telling the teacher not to tell anyone. I would assume the teacher did tell someone but also feared losing their job for angering an administrator.

so, what's wrong with a well deserved slap? When I attended school, principals dished out far, far more than that. My generation grew up to initiate microwave ovens, satellite transmission, personal computers, world-wide-web browsers, email, and a host of other inventions.

I wonder what this new, pampered, unaccountable generation will ever create or improve in this world.

Administrators can't be parents. They need to be instructional leaders and provide through their staff an environment and opportunity to learn. Parents need to parent their children. Too many times I have seen parents encourage poor behavior and disrespect for authority. This type of behavior is detrimental to both the individual and our society as a whole. While I don't condone the act of striking a student, I saw these types of things coming, and until parent's turn off the TV and the Cell phone and start parenting it will only worsen.

If the assistant principal truly believed that "nothing happened", then she would have no reason to tell the teacher she "didn't see it". I've been an administrator, we can restrain a student if necessary, but never, never slap, hit or assault them. If it left a red mark, it was wrong. If it didn't leave a mark, it was wrong. I feel terrible for the student, the school and especially the teacher who was given a directive she could not morally follow. Good for her for speaking out. A wrong is a wrong is a wrong. I would hope Granite School District reassures this teacher and all others, that they have an obligation, in fact it is the law, to speak up when they see child abuse.

Parents and Tax-Payers expect children to be safe in our schools. There is no more basic right than to be free from violence; physical punishment of adults is not permissible, young people should expect no less. It is a "dirty little secret" that children continue to be struck with wooden boards for School "Discipline" in 20 states, Illegal in Schools in 30 states! We are unable to protect our 3 children from overhearing classmates being paddled just outside class for minor infractions such as not turning in homework. TN State Law does Not require Parental Consent of Notification for children to be physically/corporally punished at school.

The slap by itself is not the big issue here. The bigger issue is the fact that the student is learning he can push his limits and get authority figures in trouble for giving him a little (probably well-deserved) discipline.

However the biggest issue of all? that the principal told the teacher it "didn't happen" and not to tell. Where's his integrity? Where's his self-control? What is he teaching the student he is attempting to teach by covering up his slap?

Your comment may be the weirdest comment I have ever seen on Deseretnews (which is saying something). Did you invent any of those items listed? Didn't think so...Also, if you think 1 generation was involved with all of that, you are crazy. Not to mention they have gone through an insane amount of improvements from a variety of generations.
Stay in the hole you come from and thank heavens society has evolved since your generation was raised.
A 58 year old should have things figured out a little better than to slap a child (any student in an elementary school is a child). Physical discipline is not a right that a school administrator has. There is a reason our society has put laws in place since you were in school. To stop abuse is one of them.
Seriously, I can't believe you are defending someone who slapped a child.

though perhaps not immoral, depending on what the child said or did beforehand. I'm guessing the kid was as out of line as the administrator and won't have lasting consequences for their actions.

First of all what the administrator did was react rather than act. We of course do not know the circumstances in which the offense took place. I will tell you though, I have no trouble putting the finger on lawyers for creating the no touch concept of our society. They have found another way to get big bucks, by promoting this concept and yet it has also hindered a teacher from even putting a hand on a students shoulder saying "a job well done."

This is a one-time, isolated incident--it's not the end of the world.

Taylor watch yourself. Who raised this generation? YOU! There are many good kids out there so don't make generalizations. Your parents were saying the exact same thing about your generation. principals cannot hit students.period. Times have changed since your generation was in school.

I bet anything the kid deservered it. Parents want teachers to raise there kids for them but heaven forbid you discipline them the way they need to. Teachers are in trouble no matter what happens. If that would have happened to me, my mom and dad would have said well you probabl deserved it.

The student probably deserved it.

I think that slapping a kid across the face is wrong, but it is too bad that we can't do more than just give a kid a white slip, time out, or suspension.

I would never want to be an administrator in this day and age. I substitute teach and all I can do is take down names and report the students if they get out of hand.

Maybe if the mother had provided a timely slap, the assistant principal wouldn't have slapped the child.

If this happen to my one of my 4 kids, I'll drag him/her to school and have him/her apologize. I'll tell my kid, if this happen again, the slap will be 10 times

The reason why kids are so out of control is because there is no consequences of their action. Wake up people

It was illegal, | 12:58 p.m. Feb. 10, 2010

"though perhaps not immoral, depending on what the child said or did beforehand. I'm guessing the kid was as out of line as the administrator and won't have lasting consequences for their actions."

Kids take after their parents and what was the first thing the mother did when her child comes home and tells her that they were slapped by the Principal? Did she call the principal and ask the principal what happened? Did she question her child to find out what they had done to cause a principal to slap them?

Everyone who is suggesting that the principal was out of line are right. She shouldn't have slapped the child but for a Principal and Asst. Principal who knows how much trouble she could get into for slapping a child to react so instinctively without thought the child had to do something horrendous.

So the question each of us should be asking is what did the child do? We already know what the mother did and that tells us what kind of person she is and if her child takes after her this is justified

Spare the rod spoil the child. Enough said

The kid no doubt deserved it but in this day and time the Assistant principal is dead in the water. Old school discipline for which this country was founded is out the window. To many liberals frowing on good old fashined discipline. Disrespectful and un-disciplined kids today will be the ruin of this country. To much texting and video games and not ehough hard work.