--- title: Georgia Mom Couldn't Stop Principal From Paddling Son description: He told her if she tried to intervene he would be suspended and she would go to jail canonical: https://time.com/4295907/georgia-principal-paddles-child/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-15T15:13:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:47:23.772Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Georgia Mom Couldn't Stop Principal From Paddling Son og:description: He told her if she tried to intervene she would go to jail og:url: https://time.com/4295907/georgia-principal-paddles-child/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Georgia Mom Couldn't Stop Principal From Paddling Son twitter:description: He told her if she tried to intervene she would go to jail twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Georgia Mom 'Couldn't Do Anything' to Stop Principal From Paddling Son by [Tim Stelloh / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Tim Stelloh / NBC News Apr 15, 2016 3:13 PM CUT by [Tim Stelloh / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Tim Stelloh / NBC News Apr 15, 2016 3:13 PM CUT A Georgia elementary school principal insisted on paddling a five-year-old student — and told the boy’s mother that if she tried to intervene he would be suspended and she would go to jail, the boy’s mom said. Shana Marie Perez, of Covington, Ga., [posted two videos on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/shana.p.perez?fref=photo "undefined") showing the Wednesday dispute at Jasper Primary School, southeast of Atlanta, along with her son’s efforts to resist. “I couldn’t do anything to stop them,” Perez wrote in a post accompanying one of the videos. By Thursday at 6 p.m., the footage had been viewed nearly a million times. _Warning: Viewers may find the following footage disturbing_ [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-principal-paddles-5-year-old-threatens-boy-s-mom-n556276?cid=par-time%5F20160415 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4295907/georgia-principal-paddles-child/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4295907/georgia-principal-paddles-child/"},"headline":"Georgia Mom 'Couldn't Do Anything' to Stop Principal From Paddling Son","datePublished":"2016-04-15T15:13:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:47:23.772Z","description":"He told her if she tried to intervene she would go to jail","url":"https://time.com/4295907/georgia-principal-paddles-child/","keywords":["georgia","Crime","Education","Schools"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tim Stelloh / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/georgia/","name":"georgia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4295907/georgia-principal-paddles-child/","name":"Georgia Mom 'Couldn't Do Anything' to Stop Principal From Paddling Son"}}]}] ```