Rebekah Woodford is the parent that spoke out on the issue after a school board meeting and I quote: “"This is not a race issue," said Rebekah Woodford, a white mother of two Spring Valley graduates and one current student. "This is, 'I want to be defiant and not do what I'm told.' The child is the one who can choose what to do."
In response School Superintendent Debbie Hamm said “the district will not tolerate any actions that jeopardize the safety of our students.” School Board Chairman Jim Manning called the deputy’s actions “shamefully shocking.”
Rebekah Woodford has the right to her opinion and I wonder what she would say if this was her daughter being thrown around publicly on worldwide video/TV like a piñata? How does she know what the officer or the child was thinking? Does she not understand that the “Sheriff’s Officer is also the one who can choose what to do." Clearly someone should have been the ADULT in that room.
This child was wrong and willfully disobedient, imho, without a doubt. She should have complied with the teacher, principal and officer.
Ms. Woodford has a GoFundMe page and I wondered why she would not use her speech wisely about the violence happening to another child when she is going through tough times to raise money for her own child when she spoke after the School Board meeting.
She seems unsympathetic to this type of violent assault against a child regardless of what the child did or didn’t do.
Just food for thought.