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Teacher Fired Over Student Beating Video
A charter school has fired one of its teachers -- accused of beating up a student on video.
A classmate captured the entire incident on their cell phone.
The teacher in question, identified by school officials as Sherri Davis, was officially terminated on Monday night.
“Now that officials at Jamie’s House Charter School have been able to review the video on Fox News, we are horrified at the actions of the teacher,” principal David Jones said in a statement.
The video, shared with FOX 26 News by a parent, shows a sixth grade student being kicked and pummeled. The student's parent says the video is now in the hands of Harris County Sheriff's investigators. She says the teacher attacked 13-year-old Isaiah Johnson at the north Harris County charter school in late April.
"I'm horrified. I just can't believe something like that would happen to my child," Alesha Johnson told FOX 26 News.
The attack goes on for nearly a minute. Isaiah Johnson said it felt much longer.
"I was on the wall like this trying to get away from her and she started hitting me, banging my head to the wall and kicking me," Isaiah said.
"He's had a knot on his head for a week. He had a black eye, bruises on his cheek," Alesha added.
Other children in the class were watching and videotaping the attack. You can even hear some laughing.
The alleged incident happened just after TAKS testing two weeks ago.
Isaiah Johnson said it all started as he and other classmates watched and laughed as a mentally challenged girl danced.
That's when he says the teacher attacked the 13-year-old. Isaiah said he was beaten by the teacher, with other teachers looking on, right there in the classroom.
"The teachers piled up and they were looking over each others shoulders just watching," Isaiah said.
David Jones, the principal of the school, released a statement later in the day.
"There is no excuse for a teacher to behave in this way with a child," Jones said. "Although we had already removed the teacher from the classroom and put her on administrative duty, we now plan to terminate the teacher and make an apology to the student and his mother."
Jones said the school will be investigating whether other teachers saw the incident and did not report it.
Alesha Johnson has taken the tape and filed criminal charges with the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Jamie's House Charter School is a Texas Accredited Charter School. It opened in 1999 and is currently in good standing.
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Posted in: News on May 12, 2010 @ 8:50 PM
Tags: School, Teachers, Violence, Youth Rights
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tes i agree with what has happened also my parents kick me off to school just so they can have the house to themselves, they hate it when i am home, and i also have a fucking teacher who says i am a failer at life and complains about the way i blow my nose (i am a hypercontirach ok) even worse she also found out about how my friend's (chris) mother left him and you know what she did, just because he has adhd he has a hard time focasing and stuff, so anyways she told him that his mother abandoned him because he was a horrible student, so he tells the principal (he is thew most awsome principal ever i mean he lets the students have parties in the cafateria and everything.) then the teacher went to the principal and said and i qoute "who are you going to believe a low life student or a teacher that has worked here for several years." she won... and one day me and my entire english class saw her take two students out of her class room (she is next door to my english class my english teacher rocks) and we hweard her tell these students that they were a shame to their families. and also one day she wouldn't let the entire class in the classroom even after the second bell, all because she wanted to yell at a student about her work. the student was in tears for the entire episode but on the lighter side my friend Aaron said she really knows how to crush your soul. this teacher's name is Mrs webb, she teaches ACS11 on the first floor. the school i got to is halifax west highschool please help me fire this bitch.
I WANNA SEE THE VID!
she had it coming
the teacher i mean had it coming.