A 16 year old Nimitz High School student in Houston knocks a 66 year old substitute teacher to the ground after the teacher confiscated his cell phone. In the video below, you can clearly see the substitute teacher attempt to move past the boy three times, but was stopped twice by the student's shoulder. However on the third try, the student exerts enough force to put the elderly teacher on her back.
The Aldine Independent School District released the following statement:
"Aldine
Independent School District police on Thursday filed a criminal charge
of injury to an elderly person against a 16-year-old male student. The
charge stems from an incident that occurred Thursday afternoon at Nimitz
High School when a substitute teacher confiscated the student's cell
phone. The student is accused of physically shoving the substitute
teacher to the ground and then retrieving his cell phone. Other students
witnessed the incident and immediately reported it to school officials,
who then summoned an ambulance and the campus-based police officer. The
substitute teacher, who is a retired Aldine teacher, was treated at a
local hospital and then released."
Thankfully, the student (whose name cannot be released because he is a minor) was arrested and charged with injury to the elderly teacher. See the video below.
Personally, when I was teaching in Korea, I decided that I wasn't cut out for teaching in America, because if a student resorts to violence against me to get his point across, I'm going to have go Rick James on him.
What would YOU do if you were a teacher and a student physically assaulted you?
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