The principal of an elementary school in Lawrence County, Alabama, has been put on paid administrative lead following accusations of "excessive paddling" of a student.
Highlights
- Principal Dr.
- Datie Priest accused of paddling a third-grade student ten times in a row.
- Alabama law allows corporal punishment, but no more than three licks at a time is allowed.
- The Alabama NAACP stands by the principal, saying accusations against another principal were not in her personnel file.
- The school district may not renew her contract, according to the Decatur Daily.
- The NAACP says the superintendent is being “bias-based” and discriminatory in the treatment of the two principals at the Lawrence County, Alabama, school district, says the NAACP is perplexed by the accusations against the principal at East Lawrence High School, but not in the principal’s file.