Ronald Lee Fee and Wife, Nancy Lee Fee, Individually and as Next Friends of Tracy John Fee, a Minor v. Joseph Milton Herndon

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1990-05-09

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JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge: A sixth grade special-education student became disruptive during classroom instruction, prompting the use of corporal punishment by the school’s principal to restore discipline. The parents, Ronald and Nancy Fee, maintain that the principal beat their emotionally disturbed child so excessively, however, that the student was forced to remain in psyc…

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