McConnel's (R-KY) Daughter Center of Controversy (Student abuse)

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Lexington Herald

More than a dozen parents have removed their children from an alternative, private school located in a rural upstate county amid complaints about disciplinary tactics by one teacher.

Claire McConnell, the daugh-ter of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., was accused of strapping one child into a chair with a leather belt, tying the hands of others and taping shut the mouths of some elementary school students, the Albany Times Union reported yesterday.

Parents said the tactics were out of character for the Hawthorne Valley School, a Waldorf school that designs programs to reflect the emotional, physical and intellectual development in children. ---

Reached in Washington, her father said, "I just heard about it this morning. I've not spoken with her, and I really don't know anything about it."

Bob Wohlfeld and DeeAnn Veeder, whose daughter had been tied to her chair when she wouldn't settle down, removed her after she finished second grade in June. "We were a little dumbstruck," Wohlfeld said. ---

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