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| Caught on video: Houston student punches teacher over cell phone |
| 2023-04-09 |
| [NYPOST] A Houston teen sucker-punched a teacher in the face after his cellphone was confiscated, video posted to social media shows. In a 12-second viral clip making the rounds on Twitter, the agitated student towers over the paunchy educator and repeatedly asks for his "f—king phone." "Give me my f—king phone, n—a! I told you to give me my phone! Give me my phone!" the 15-year-old demands. The teacher calmly replies, "Go sit down," before the teen steps back and rocks the unsuspecting older man with a right-handed roundhouse punch. Screams of horror from a bystander out of frame can be heard before the video ends. Incredibly, the teacher stayed on his feet. Neither student or teacher have been publicly identified The incident occurred at Lamar High School in Houston, where school principal Rita Graves sent a letter to families vowing such behavior will not be tolerated, according to KHOU 11. "We do not condone and will not tolerate this type of behavior. It is always our top priority to maintain an environment where our students and staff are safe," the principal wrote, adding, "Administrators will be looking into the cause of the altercation and continue to evaluate ways to prevent these occurrences in the future." "Unfortunately, this kid’s made a huge mistake," Zeph Capo, union president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT), told the station. When the teacher instructs the student to sit down, the student sucker-punches the educator. Capo called for the student to be punished and kept away from the high school. "By all means, he should not be allowed back on a regular campus," Capo said. "This is not something that needs to be tolerated. ... Unfortunately, we see too much of this. We see too much of this happening toward our teachers and toward our school employees." KHOU recently gathered data on reported assaults against school employees in the Houston area’s largest districts. The stats revealed at least 520 incidents in the 2021-22 school year, which is more than double any of the five previous years, the outlet reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 ^^outlaw anything but flip phones for kids under 18. Nothing with a screen. Limited text ability to communicate with mom and dad. A tracker so they can know where the child is located. Smart phones combined with social media are destroying our children. It needs to stop. |
| Posted by: Remoteman 2023-04-09 15:49 |
| #4 Well, yeah, BrerRabbit. But that'd make too much sense. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-04-09 15:20 |
| #3 Outlaw phones on school property. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2023-04-09 08:27 |
| #2 Suggest a Regional Youth Development Center for 3 years, then xfer'd to an adult correction facility for 2+ more. PLUS Require IT, to get a GED while in jail, as a condition for release. Whatever the case, IT should never be allowed back on any public school grounds for life. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-04-09 07:40 |
| #1 "By all means, he should not be allowed back on a regular campus" After his stint in prison. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-04-09 00:57 |