<font color="purple">WARNING>>>>This is my opinion and I will state first that I am in disagreement to how this situation was handled from they way you described........

I am sorry, but I don't think you or the principal handled this situation very well..... Before I get any flames.... I agree that the child was indeed wrong and should be held accountable for his actions and properly disciplined..... But i do agree that no school official should be placing any hands on a child for any reason except to prevent the child from being harmed or the child from harming another...... I believe the child should have been instructed to clean up the glue and dicussion of further punishment be done privately... The egg incident had no business being brought up while tending to the glue incident unless that happened at that moment as well, but the way I understood what you wrote it had happened earlier and it should have been discussed privately as well..... As a parent I would agree that if this was my child he would need to be disciplined accordingly for his behavior but I would be that parent in your office irate as well for laying a hand on my child as well.....

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