A video showing a 5-year-old as he tries to escape an upcoming paddling from officials at Jasper County Primary School in Georgia, has caused outrage after being shared on social media this week. The boys mother, Shana Perez said he was being punished for misbehaving and that she only consented to the paddling because she felt pressured as she had previously been arrested for truancy after Thomas had missed school for 18 days She said that as punishment for this offense, the principal gave her two options: Either have Thomas suspended or have him paddled. She said she believed she could go back to jail for another day for truancy if Thomas was out of school. RT reports: When Shana Perez was told that her son Thomas had been misbehaving in school, she was given two options: he could be suspended for a day or receive a paddling. Perez chose paddling after, “[the school administration] said there was nothing else, no other way possible that anything that they could do or that could be done for him was going to help him but to be paddled,” as she told WAGA. Perez explained that the situation began when Thomas “tried to hit [...]