Teacher Accused of Simple Assault and Battery of Student

Teacher Accused of Simple Assault and Battery of Student

By WLTX-TV Columbia

LEXINGTON COUNTY, SC -- Lexington County Sheriff James Metts had to be careful when choosing his words Tuesday afternoon. The easy part was confirming that there had been a charge of simple assault and battery filed by a 17 year-old White Knoll High School student against his teacher. And the sheriff confirmed that the teacher is Harold Skinner, a drama instructor.

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"The teacher, Mr. Harold Skinner, grabbed a student by putting his hands on his torso from the rear, and then thrust his pelvic into the student several times, acting as a gorilla would act under a sexual type situation," said Sheriff Metts.

The investigation report says it happened in a drama class at White Knoll High School, where the students and teachers were working on improvisational skills. In particular, they were practicing how gorillas might act.

Metts says, that's when Skinner performed the questionable improv act on the student in front of several classmates.

"It was very distasteful to the student and embarrassing to the student to have the teacher put his hands on his torso and then thrust his pelvic into him a number of times in the rear," said Sheriff Metts.

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Where are the brains?

Teacher brains.

Looks like the student has filed a *complaint* -- charges may be the outcome. If I were the Sheriff, I'd hold my horses before going forward with formal charges.

These school things always turn out to have nine different interpretations and twelve different sets of facts, but at first blush it looks like the student is an asshole.

More info no doubt forthcoming.

I must question the judgment associated with improvising sexual aggression in a high school drama class.

Most teachers I have encountered are adequate to great ... and most exercise good judgment all the time ... I question this teacher's judgment in this circumstance ... this would be anticipated to be very embarrassing to an individual (especially an adolescent in front of his/her peers)

... he was pretending to be a sexually aggressive ape, in a H.S. drama class ... He made physical contact with a student (while imitating sexual aggression), in a way the student objected to.

From the info we have ... I maintain that this teacher suffered a lapse in judgment.

It happens, every day, in every profession... lapses of judgment, that it is.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything etherealtruth said.
...and this lapse of judgment was with a kid.
Lee

that simulates anything REMOTELY sexual with a student, no matter the circumstances, is an idiot.

What was he thinking? Obviously, he hadn't the requisite two brain cells available to ignite a cogent thought.