Principal Beats 3 Year Old (and Newspaper Make Hilarious Typo)

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NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THE 3 YEAR OLD PART

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A Palatka family says that their granddaughter was paddled at Peniel Academy without their consent and are filing charges against the principal.

A call to Peniel Academy Principal Bonnell Jenkins from the Daily News was returned, but he said he could not comment about the situation while the investigation is ongoing... When she arrived, she met with Jenkins, who advised her as to how Tiana was acting and suggested solutions. Louis said it was only her third day of school and she was still adjusting, and wanted to take her home for the rest of the day. She said Jenkins replied that if she took Tiana out, she would be “letting a 3-year-old win over her.”

As a result, she left the campus and said Tiana was forced to stand in the corner as punishment for her behavior. When Louis called the school two hours later to check on her daughter, she was told that she was still standing in the corner.

Believing that punishment too harsh, Louis came and checked her daughter out of school, but Tiana yelped in pain when her mother touched her back side while walking out of the school. She asked her daughter what was wrong and Tiana told her that, “Mr. Principal (Jenkins) beat her with a swat,” according to the sheriff’s report. She examined her daughter behind, found that it was red and called the sheriff’s office... Since the incident and the police report, the Florida Department of Children and Families want the sides to reconcile, the elder Louis said. He said he is disgusted by such a response.

“The DCF wants me to make an agreement with the principal,” he said. “This is child abuse. If we did this we would be in big trouble (with DCF).”

Louis said his grandaughter told them Jenkins used a wooden switch against her. Jenkins told police he hit her with his hand.

“She said, ‘No, daddy, he hit me with a stick,’” Louis said. “’I layed down on the bed and he just whack, whack, whack and swatted me.’ One side of her behind was red when she got home.”

Since the incident, the Louises have removed Tiana from the school, but they said the girl becomes traumatized if they even drive in the direction of Penile Baptist Academy... http://palatkadailynews.com/articles/2007/09/06/news/news01.txt


I WANTED TO LAUGH AND CRY AT THE SAME TIME...