The odds of me striking a woman are very low, but never zero.

Yeah. People would catch these hands over it too.

If I was a parent, I don't know if I would have handled that situation any better. Child abuse pisses me the fuck off.

She should have gotten the police to look into it.

When I was 11, and in Catholic school a nun attempted to hit me. I caught her had and told her if she hit me I would hit her back.

To my parents mortification I was expelled, but it sure made me feel good, and I never regretted it.

Good for her, Biden's mom threatened nun for making fun of Joe about his stutter

And I didn't even think corporal punishment was done anymore.
I remember once in 5th grade a boy always in trouble said he did something I had actually done.
He said later that he was used to getting a "licking" and he knew I wasn't.

A preschooler? That's a baby! Who beats a baby?

I know 2 wrongs don’t make a right, but the teacher got what she deserved. I would have seen to it that she gets paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of her life and confined to a wheelchair. as well as permanent physical pain.

Can't say I wouldn't have done the same.

Catholic schools are notorious for their abundant use of physical punishment.
They tend to attract and harbor child abusers.

There is NO excuse for beating a 2 year old, or any other child, as described.

Kudos to her imo.
As a parent I had the unwritten rule, " Do NOT touch my child or IF you do you will see what an angry Parent looks and sounds like."
The Headmaster at the Willyama High School here where I live once sent my daughter home with a swollen lip, chipped tooth, bruises to the arms and legs and an that was starting to turn bruised already, HIS claim was that my daughter had attacked and beaten up 4 young Indigenous Students in the school Amenities block.
I stormed into his office, asked him what injuries these victims presented with in comparison to those my daughter was suffering with, his reply was, " Bruised Knuckles of course."
I asked Lorrae to show her hands and knuckles, NO bruising NO swelling, NO abrasions, absolutely NOTHING.
He suddenly did the back-flip, agreed that he had leaped to a false conclusion considering that the complainants were Indigenous girls and Lorrae was white,hence Lorrae MUST be a Racist and therefore MUST be the guilty party..
After some more 'slightly' heated discussion, he agreed to level punishment upon the Indigenous girls, Lorrae was to be given 3 days at home to rest and recover, the school would pay for any visits to the Doctor that Lorrae needed in relation to the injuries, the girls would be expelled from Willyama High and sent to the other High School in town instead AFTER getting 3 weeks Suspension.
He went on to, literally, BEG me "NOT to take this matter to the Local Police as it would put unwelcome media exposure upon the reputation of HIS School and be detrimental to it as well possibly."
As Lorrae and I walked calmly out of his office after hearing that, I turned first to Lorrae and grinned, then to him and calmly said, " Suck eggs Arse-hole, you allow shit like this to happen in YOUR School and Under YOUR Care and Watch, NOW pay the Price, I'm heading straight to the Police Station from here."

Taking one's young child to a Catholic anything is child abuse. Maybe her finances drove her to it? (drove her to leaving her child to be among catholics)

The mom should have filed charges against the teacher. That could teach her a real lesson.

I understand her actions. I can't say it was the best choice of action; yet, when my kids were younger, I strongly believe I may have killed such a person. The woman needs to sue the school, as well, for their harboring such an individual - things like that are seldom first happenings.
I can proudly claim thst my actions, in 1983, helped remove the PHD head of Penn State's daycare. No, actual physical abuse, but things like forcing the kids to stay outside for a half hour in below freezing weather so she could have a quiet meeting.