A father who punched a primary school headmistress when she suspended his son for swearing and racially abusing another pupil was spared jail yesterday.
Paul Stratford, 30, attacked Zita McCormick in front of shocked staff after a showdown over his eight-year-old son’s behaviour.
Education campaigners slammed the community sentence he was given and said law and order had been allowed to "go out the window".
Stratford claimed he was “protecting” his son, who was left in tears after Mrs McCormick excluded him from Seven Fields Primary School in Swindon, Wilts.
The boy’s exclusion followed a racist outburst that his headmistress said was his third act of anti-social behaviour that week.
He had allegedly sworn in front of a group of Spanish visitors and racially abused a Somali boy.
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