St. Mark African-American Episcopal Pastor Terence Gray is in Trouble For Using a Belt to Chastise 4th-grade Students at a Private Christian School in Orlando, Florida, For Doing Evil in the Classroom Without the Parents Consent.
Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says while corporal punishment in school was done while he was growing up and should be restored today, it is best in this day and time, not to chastise somebody else’s child, especially without consent from the parents. However, the pastor ought to chastise his children when they do wrong and teach the parents from the Bible the importance of corporal punishment chastisement at home in the raising of children. If the parents do not do that and the children do not behave in school, they should be taken out of the school and suspended without a refund. If the parents still refuse to chastise their children and control their children, and they act up again in school, they need to be permanently expelled from the school without a refund. Principals and teachers should not have to discipline and control the children of others. They do not have time for that. Daniel Whyte III says his dad, Bishop Daniel Whyte Jr., was too loving to the point where he did not chastise him or his siblings. Whyte says that was a huge mistake. A whole lot of problems in their lives could have been avoided if he had chastised him and his siblings. Whyte says children are to learn there are consequences for doing evil starting at an early age. Whyte says further that outside of salvation through Jesus Christ, the greatest thing God has done for him is chastise him for doing evil early in his Christian life, and that taught him to fear God, respect God, obey God, and keep his commitments to God, and to respect authority in all areas of life.
- Parents at a religious school in Florida are calling for charges to be brought against a pastor after allegations that he used a belt to whip fourth-grade kids
- Pastor Terence Gray is accused of entering a classroom at the Alpha Learning Academy affiliated with St. Mark AME Church in Orlando
- He allegedly demanded to know which children had misbehaved with the teacher outing those who needed to be punished
Parents at a private religious school in Florida are demanding criminal charges be brought against a pastor following allegations he took off his belt to whip at least eight children in a fourth-grade classroom.
Pastor Terence Gray is alleged to have entered the class of nine- and ten-year-olds at St. Mark AME Church’s Alpha Learning Academy in Orlando on Thursday afternoon, demanding to know which children had been behaving badly.
The pastor is said to have walked into the class asking for the children to stand up and admit to ‘bad behavior’ before threatening to carrying out an even more severe punishment.
The teacher then outed the misbehaving children, forcing them to stand up.
After having the children line up, Pastor Gray took off the belt he was wearing around his pants and individually administered three lashes to each of the pupils, leaving some with bruises on their upper legs.
‘He said he was going to whoop us with a belt because were were being bad, ‘ Shane Walker, a student at the school for seven years, told WFTV
Although Gray is the pastor of the church associated with the school, parents say he is not supposed to be involved in the day-to-day operations of the educational establishment.
Janesha Martin, Walker’s mother, was upset at learning of the cruel and unusual punishment.
‘This makes me really emotional. I don’t send my child to school to be abused by anyone,’ she said. The pastor should have been arrested last night!’
Martin has since pulled Walker from the school, noting how such incidents had never occurred before.
Source: Daily Mail Online
