taking a childs shoes is unacceptable. plain and simple. no excuse, no long story.
had this been done in a public school setting it would be on the 6 o’clock news and the teacher would be under investigation.
parents should stand up for their kids with regard to things like this. i can tell you for a fact that no teacher did stuff like this to my children. my husband once hard that a rebbe had a tendency to hit children if they misbehaved even in the slightest. my husband made it known that if anyone laid a hand on his child he would come to the school with the police and have the teacher arrested. originally he wanted to beat the teacher up, but i told him then he would end up in jail as well.