That reality often exceeds fiction is an irrefutable truth that sometimes that reality is incredible, it is also true and that sometimes like the one I bring you besides amazing it is very very outrageous... well, you will say, it has harassed me a lot.
A mother records the beating given to her own son by the director of the school, hang it on Facebook and millions of people around the world see it and surely the vast majority as outraged as me.
Thomas is a child under five He goes to an elementary school in Georgia, United States. One of the 19 North American states in which violence is allowed in schools, it is understood that adult-educator violence over minor-students. No, on the contrary no, it is evident.
The facts
Thomas, remember that he hasn't turned five yet, he tried to hit one of his teammates and spit on another. Before such terrible and scandalously violent behavior, The center director Pam Edge spoke with Thomas's mother.
“They told me that if they didn't beat him I would have to be expelled from school. If he is expelled for a single day I will go to jail for truancy and I cannot take care of my children in jail. ”
"Zurraban", we don't talk about punishing, correcting, reprimanding, making him reflect on his behavior, no ... we talk about "zurraban".
The situation of Thomas's mother, Shana Marie Pérez, is at least surreal. Shana was arrested two weeks ago by the truancy of his son Thomas under five. Thomas missed 18 days to school during the course: for having to go to the doctor.
What options do you have? Can taking the child to the doctor be considered truancy? And not taking him to the doctor so he doesn't miss school days is not avoiding his responsibilities as a mother as well as endangering the health of the rest of the class? It is clear that in a situation like this the chances of getting it right are simply nil.
The penalty
The director of the center helped by another adult, they hold and beat Thomas who cries and cries and like any other child asks his mother for help more than overcome by the circumstances that the two are living and that He pretends to be sending messages from his cell phone but he is really recording the painful scene.
Since then More than three million people have seen how two adults, supposedly pedagogues, are they teaching? to a child under five that their aggressive behaviors only deserve violence as punishment.
Isn't it amazing?
Well, I don't know if it's so amazing considering for example that in the United States, in the last ten years there were more deaths from shootings than from classified attacks of “terrorists”.
Surely there are many factors that influence but how many cases like Thomas's have shown children that their aggressiveness deserves only violence?
The child is not taught anything related to emotional intelligence or empathy, no doubts are raised, he is not made to reflect or manage his aggressiveness from a constructive point of view and always taking into account that he has not yet fulfilled the five years.
He is taught that his actions only find a reaction from who has to teach him, from his teachers, from his teachers; the violence.
What conclusions will Thomas draw from all this? That is what should worry the US authorities, that and teach the directors that this is not a way to educate a child, any child.
