Houston teacher puts beatdown on 13 y.o. student

[McLovin]

I'm surprised this isn't posted here already, apologies if it is (I don't see it).

Teacher goes berserk on 13 year old in Houston. Wow!

[GH85Carrera]

All the giggling is just as disturbing.

[Embraer]

my school (I went K-12 in one building....) had a teacher who would tie students to their chairs with a jump rope if they were unruly.

we also had a paddle that you'd face if you were misbehaving.

the weird thing is....this wasn't back in the 60's. we're talking late 80's early 90's in a public school.

[RWebb]

Amazing!

I simply cannot believe that a teacher would do something like that!




doesn't she have a Tazer?

[red-beard]

Tazars are not standard issued equipment in Texas schools, far too new technology. But I am surprised she didn't pull out her Colt 45 and pistol whip him. He might have listened...

The real bad news here, the school basically didn't believe there was much of anything here, until the video came out.

This isn't Houston ISD (Independant School District), it is Spring ISD, north of Houston.

[Jagshund]

Come on- let's face it. 13 year old kid getting whooped on like that had to do something to deserve it. He backed into that corner like he knew he'd f###ed up.

[red-beard]

What we've heard on the local news, it started with something going on with a girl in the class. The girl started saying something like "he's hitting me". We don't know if she was playing around, or just trying to get the boy in trouble. We do know that the boy did not in fact hit the girl, since there were other adults and kids around who said that nothing had in fact happened.

At the point where the teacher heard that the boy was hitting the girl, the teacher started say yelling about a boy hitting a girl, and then started hitting the boy and asking him how he liked a girl hitting him back.

This teacher obviously has some serious issues.

[Dueller]

Originally Posted by red-beard

This teacher obviously has some serious issues.

Ya Think? Read on from the Houston Chronicle...

(May 13) -- The Houston charter school teacher caught on a cell-phone video beating a 13-year-old student was wanted on a criminal mischief charge, accused of slashing a woman's tires last year.

Sheri Lynn Davis, 40, was fired Monday by Jamie's House Charter School. However, she won't lose her teaching certificate because she never had one, the Houston Chronicle reported. Texas law states that only bilingual and special education teachers must be certified in order to work at charter schools. Davis is a science teacher.

Davis taught at the charter school for more than a year while a warrant was out for her arrest, stemming from the alleged tire slashing in January 2009. Davis is scheduled to appear in court on that criminal mischief charge, a misdemeanor, on Tuesday, according to Houston's KRIV-TV.

She lost her job after school administrators saw a cell phone video recorded by one of her students in late April that showed her slapping and kicking 13-year-old Isaiah Johnson, then dragging him across the floor and slamming his head into a wall. The boy's mother, Alesha Johnson, said Isaiah suffered a black eye and other bruises in the attack.

"There's no excuse for a teacher to behave like this," Jamie's House Charter School Principal David Jones said in a statement. "We've already removed the teacher, and we want to apologize to the student and the mother."

Davis could face criminal charges for the latest incident, but none have been filed yet. She had worked at the school for three years without complaint, school officials told the Houston Chronicle. But the ordeal is now prompting lawmakers to re-examine screening practices for charter school teachers.

State Rep. Scott Hochberg, a Democrat from Houston, said all charter school teachers should be certified, just like their public school counterparts.

"There are so many avenues available to become certified that I don't think we should be allowing noncertified teachers to teach," he told the Chronicle.

A 2007 state law mandated that all Texas schools, public and charter, conduct criminal background checks and collect fingerprints from teaching applicants. Jamie's House Charter School declined to comment on Davis' background.

Teacher certification laws in Texas require candidates to have a bachelor's degree, complete an educator preparation program and pass certification exams. The qualifications are less stringent for charter school teachers, who are required by most schools to have a high school diploma and demonstrate competency in their subject.

David Dunn, the executive director of the Texas Charter Schools Association, argues that certification does not necessarily prevent teachers from behaving badly.

"There are certified teachers who misbehave," he told the Chronicle. "Certification does not equal protection. The real protection around student safety is the criminal history background checks that all public schools in the state of Texas are required to do."

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by 1968Cayman

Come on- let's face it. 13 year old kid getting whooped on like that had to do something to deserve it. He backed into that corner like he knew he'd f###ed up.

Bingo, another one hits my ignore list.

"He backed into that corner like he knew he'd f###ed up"
Yeah, that's the way I saw it.

So, if the kid called her every name in the book, does that justify her (or it) totally losing it?

Unreal you are, man. G'bye.

[Burnin' oil]

I heard it started when a female classmate slapped the boy on his butt. One thing lead to another.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Burnin' oil

I heard it started when a female classmate slapped the boy on his butt. One thing lead to another.

Laugh of the day, if not the week! Good one.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by milt

Laugh of the day, if not the week! Good one.

Wonder when Kurt is going to chime in on this!

[Bill Douglas]

I'd quite like to mud wrestle her.

[Jagshund]

Originally Posted by milt

Bingo, another one hits my ignore list.

"He backed into that corner like he knew he'd f###ed up"
Yeah, that's the way I saw it.

So, if the kid called her every name in the book, does that justify her (or it) totally losing it?

Unreal you are, man. G'bye.

Didn't realize this was a forum that demanded that I sit around and make sure everyone else agreed with me before I posted. What do you expect me to do, cry myself to sleep because I'm on your ignore list? Take me off in a few decades and ask me if I give a f###.

[Jeff Higgins]

Why, back when I was in school (and walking 10 miles in the snow, uphill (each way), barefoot), our teachers would beat the hell out of us at least once a week just to cover all the stuff they suspected we did. They were all escaped convicts, on the lam, and trying to lay low. And it wasn't for slashing tires, either. That's just the way it was. My how things have changed. What a bunch of pussies.

Seriously, though - don't these schools do any kind of background checks? Isn't that part of what the school systems does? I guess I thought that anyone coming into contact with kids everyday would have to check out squeaky clean.

[aap1966]

I actually have no real issue with proportional corporal punishment, especially for boys. But beating the serotonin out of the kid??

The teacher would appear to have anger management issues. I wonder if she posts on PARF?

[pwd72s]

"quality education"...

[Les Paul]

I thought charter schools were private schools? They pay low and get what they pay for.

[speeder]

Too bad that kid did not have some skills that could have allowed him to rise up and throw that wench a beating. I remember being beaten by nuns as wee lad in Catholic school, women can be really mean and violent. Especially ones that don't get laid. (I guess the same could be said for men).

I'll never forget the day that my older sister found out that she could no longer beat me. That was an *oh schit* moment for her.

[Rot 911]

Originally Posted by Burnin' oil

I heard it started when a female classmate slapped the boy on his butt. One thing lead to another.

I'm locking my daughter up in her room for the weekend so she can reflect on the error of her ways!