Teacher's brutal attack on boy, 13, at U.S. school posted on YouTube

Source: Daily Mail

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 10:30 AM on 13th May 2010

A schoolteacher has been fired after she brutally attacked a 13-year-old pupil in front of a classroom full of students, according to US reports.

Shocking video footage appears to show Sheri Davis dragging, kicking and slapping sixth grader Isaiah Johnson after squaring up to him as he cowered in a corner.

The alleged beating is thought to have lasted almost a minute and was filmed on a mobile phone by another pupils before being posted on YouTube.

Officials at Jamie's House Charter School, a centre for children with disciplinary issues in Houston, Texas, are reportedly 'horrified'.

The 40-year-old teacher has been sacked and bosses have apologised to the youngster and his furious mother, Alesha Johnson.

Police have been called in to investigate amid public outcry, which came after the video was obtained by Ms Johnson and aired on Houston's Fox News channel.








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once a week so they can feel how frustrated are the teacher when they get those little angels in class.

if you cannot stand the heat, get out of the classroom and get another job

not monsters.
Everything indicates that parents just dumped their kids in a segregated class with other kids that have the same issues taking away their responsibilities.

Obviously. Do you know these students personally? Have you met their parents?

You will have to excuse me if I reject your ignorance and excuses for violence.

Once again, pathetic.

for raising such a horrible human being?

Well I'll have to disagree with that.

children with disciplinary problems?

that someone somewhere won't make a hearty effort at blaming them.

especially in a class room.

I have taught schizophrenic students and students with serious criminal records and I never once had to resort to violence.

Your response is pathetic.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7002614.html


A Harris County charter school teacher caught on video beating up a student last month could face criminal charges, but she will not lose her teaching certificate.

That's because Sheri Lynn Davis, 40, doesn't have one.

As a science teacher at a charter school, she didn't need to be certified. Texas law requires charter schools to hire certified teachers only in the areas of bilingual and special education.

The state's charter school law is designed to give the campuses more freedom in hiring, but Davis' case illustrates a little-discussed loophole: If teachers aren't certified by the state, then the state has no power to sanction them. Their records are clean if they apply for other teaching jobs. In fact, they don't have a record at all with the State Board for Educator Certification.

but never have done it because I am the adult so I am obliged to be the cool head in the classroom.

:popcorn:

And an embarrassment to DU and humanity.

This teacher obviously just snapped. Shouldn't be doing this job.

But I hope the student learned something other than another way to manipulate the adults. I doubt it.

It takes two to tango, y'know.

127,500 are physically attacked by students.

Violence against teachers costs over $2 billion annually. Not only are the teachers damaged by the threats but also students that observe the threats of violence.

Threats Against Educators are Expensive
Each year, students threaten teachers and even assault them. What are the costs for this behavior?

•Lost wages
•Lost days of work
•Need to train and replace teachers who leave prematurely
•Lost instructional time
•Medical and psychological care
•Student disciplinary proceedings
•Increased workers’ compensation claims and premiums
•Incarceration of perpetrators <1>
Teachers are already leaving the field because of burn out, poor work environment and lack of support from parents and administrators. Violence from students only adds to the already existing problem.

Locations for Violence Against Teachers
Just where is the violence occurring? Where are the 7%?

•Cities – 109,800
•Suburbs – 78,100
•Towns – 27,500
•Rural areas – 37,700
•Secondary schools – 139,400
•Elementary schools – 113,700
•Male teachers attacked – 78,500
•Female teachers attacked – 174,500
The pattern seems higher incidents in an urban setting, in secondary schools and with female teachers.



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let's teach those little brats a little lesson in RESPECT!!!
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safe from junior high kids. If they get out of line, just shoot those little brats.

My GOD, if someone actually wants to defend this teacher's right to beat up on kids, I think we have more problems in America than just Tea Baggers and stupid hypocritical Republicans.

just stunned.

The joke is I'm not kidding. It's a real book by "Ed Anger", WWN's resident wingding.

Congratulations. You have moved from pathetic to psychopathic excuses for terrible behavior.

Again, I have worked with schools full of students with severe emotional, psychological and legal problems and I have never had to resort to violence against a student. Your "statistics" are nothing but ex post facto excuses for your willingness to accept abuse in the classroom.

considering the higher populations in urban settings you'd expect higher numbers, but with rural incidents being 1/3 the number of city incidents and city schools encompassing well over three times the number of students in rural schools, the rate of incidents would be higher in rural schools.

Of course, I could be wrong on the ratio of urban v rural students - I don't have them right at hand - but IIRC city/suburban schools have nearly 4x the number of total students of small town/rural schools.

I thought at first that was going to start off as a playful thing, but good lord that was out of bounds. She lost it, and she can not be with kids if she is going to lose it. That was absolutely too far, no justification for that is possible.

Being calm is the best thing you can do for them. I had a 12 year old go off on me, trying to kick and punch me. I was taught how to restrain kids when they get like this. I calmly restrained his arms, pinned them against his chest and then stayed like that for a long time. The boy calmed down. We actually got along very well after that. These children don't need any more adults going at them. They need trust.

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Where are YOUR children?

attending school with a 4.0 GPA
how about yours?

Keep that woman away from children.

they won't even think on applying to teach kids with disciplinary problems

:popcorn:

behavior. Besides, the violence was done in a very ineffective way, the teacher put herself at greater risk turning her back to the other students like that... she could have really been attacked by several other bigger kids, and injured.

Very bad on all levels.

Several alternatives to deal with this situation, and good teachers would know many.

smear. Nor an entire alternative public education model.

about the state of Charter public schools.

The vast majority of other approximately 99,999+/- (very rough guess) charter public school teachers are good at their jobs.

Not excusing what the teacher did, by any means, but it didn't occur in a vacuum. And nobody is better at pushing buttons than a middle-school kid.

I was once picked up and bodily thrown out of the classroom by my social studies/wrestling coach teacher. Can't say I blame him - I was being a wiseass - but those were different times. But even then, wailing on a kid for over a minute was unheard of.

She needs to find herself a different profession.

But, damn, my heart went out to him when he first dropped to the floor in a defensive crouch. He looked vulnerable and pathetic.

when the teacher started the abuse.

It could have been the moment when the teacher took control of the room, by leaving the child alone in the corner.

According to a CNN reporter this morning.

that is disgusting, hope more details come up.

if you were more concerned that they were "mixing" students with mental disabilities and teachers with disciplinary problems.

This is blatant child abuse.

No excuse.

I'd also like to make sure she never deals with children again, other than her own who can visit her in prison for the next 10 years.

My fantasy.

I recommend this thread because of the graphic material, no other reason... this is criminal.

A couple of months should do it.

That, the loss of her job, and the insurance that she never teaches again should be fair.

some kids just need a little smack now and then...

that physical violence solves problems? Oh yay.

Actually, the kid just learned another lesson in what life will be like once we deregulate every field and let any yahoo do any job.

Just like today's prison guards, tomorrow's teachers will be unqualified, mentally unstable, socially maladjusted abusers.

Open season, no restraint, beat up on your fellow human beings as long as you're the one in charge...good lesson

Ailes: Houston, we have a problem.

Fox News Houston: What's the problem, sir? We uncovered a breaking story.

Ailes: That story doesn't fit our agenda. You're fired.

i was just coming here to post your link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8330016

it just gets more and more fucked up.

The failure of other teachers in the presence of the beating to act is now being looked into.

another charter sucess story!