I agree, it wasn't a blackout. As a mother and someone working in the school, you don't just come right out and tell everyone that you lost control and slapped a student. It is hard to live with the fact yourself, that you lost control to that extent.
She was pushed and pushed by her own daughter, and then by this student. It seemed that she took out some of her anger toward her daughter on the student. She probably thought of herself as someone who would never hit or spank her own child.
Even without saying that she slapped the boy, all hell broke loose. Finally, she was so sick of pretending to be something she wasn't (perfect and or infallible), she told the truth, much to her lawyer and her husband's dismay.
It is so hard to be a parent or even to work with children. Even when you love them more than life itself. Even when it is something you really want to do -- it is so hard.
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