An Indiana teacher was caught on camera smashing a student’s head into a wall allegedly over the student wearing a hoodie in school. NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson reports on how the teacher is being allowed to retire with full benefits as he faces battery charges.
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Nope 🤬 I thank God, no1 ever put their hands on 1 of my kids like that. At that point it would have been between the teacher n I. Man or not Idgaf I would have come unglued on that teacher !
Nobody should be defending that, your a teacher. Out of anybody you should be showing the upmost self control idc how bad that kid is or how angry you are. You are the parent and weather or not his parents are disciplining them or not is not your problem.
I just feel horrible for that boy and his parents.
Let that man get his pension he said to put up with all you crappy kids for all these years because there are no more consequences for anything these kids run around and say whatever they wanna say and do whatever they want to do with no punishment.
Too bad everything is a vote instead of just one straight right answer. Should have been fired on the spot. What if it was a little girl…would that help. So dumb.
Let any parent see they child hard get bounced off the wall that throwing hands
This is so sad. That memory will forever live in the child mind.
As if….. that kid went down like a soccer player…..like he never been hit before….fake hurt. Dropped as soon as other teacher came out…lol from Canada….way to go teach!
This makes my eyes twitch 😡💢😡
Wow…. Teacher of the year…. I wonder how many other kids he did this to… He only in trouble bc it was on tape !!!
What a ” man” , that child was 1/2 his size.
Bully
In trumpland,all the teachers get to hit the kids,as long as it’s someone else’s kid…
America needs to look deeper into this situation our teachers today deal with bad kids today America’s family is dysfunctional with kids that have behavioral problems and setting discipline with public schools there needs education and behavioral health in public schools in today’s society of our country..
I’ll say the same thing about teachers as I do about cops, if you can’t handle the stress, and possible verbal abuse that may come from people they deal with, you chose the wrong line of work! Controlling your anger is something you have to do in these career choices. If your ego is so soft, that the words of a child causes you to get physical with that child, you shouldn’t be around children.
That teacher should be in prison, no retirement or benefits
As a former student in Indiana’s public school system, this doesn’t surprise me. In my experience, they have some of the worst public schools in the country. When the drop-out rate got over 50% at the high school in my hometown in Indiana, the school board changed the rules to count dropouts as homeschool transfers instead, so that they could artificially lower the rate. It was not a great experience.
He shouldn’t get retirement pay
Is the student okay???? That was a terrifying video
Well the parents are now gonna own the school
I would…. if he touched my child… and they wonder why people snap and cause mayhem…
This scum bag gets his money but what about the trauma this child will endure for the rest of his life?
do you see this… THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT TEACHERS DID TO ME WHEN I WAS THEIR AGE !!! 😡😡😡
if that was my kid, I’d be in jail
Sickening!!
Looks like they can’t cover up this one
That kind of behaviour it TOXIC it only spreads violence…A teacher who is supposed to be a role model is giving the kid (in sensitive age) a taste of his own madness . That kind of event moulds teenager’s fragile mind and has devastating effects on kid’s life in future.
As soon as they mentioned the hoodie, I knew that’s what the altercation was about. Schools need to stop with that hoodie BS. Mask mandates have proven that “hiding the kid’s face” isn’t a real issue.
MF’er lay a hand on my kid, he’d be in my trunk headed down a long, dark road.
I don’t care what my child did, I’ll handle that part but if a teacher ever hits my child like that. I’ll handle that as well
He knew he went too far and resigned. Forty years is too long to be around teen agers. I know how this happens but it’s inexcusable. Good for everyone he’s out of the school. Good thing the school has cameras.
People of this town and school rallied behind this man….. he needs to be jailed or worse
Good. Though it should be more than 2 years and more than 10k in penalty.
A message to Cops & teachers: power corrupts.
WhAAAAT! tf kind of kids or those that are supporting this guy? At my school, that teacher wouldn’t have had more than a few supporters. Lame A kids… smh
I’d like that teachers home address . I feel like tonight it’s perfect for a visit of ultra violence 😌
You know he hit him hard enough and head hit the wall hard enough for him to have easily visible injuries
a few years ago my daughter had been beating and threaten by a teacher i have taken pic the bruses she had aftwer she came home from school i reported to the police they couldnt help cause my daughter was to afraid to tell she was being threaten from the school no joke
FYI…the same year this Trumper teacher and District were brought to court for political propaganda in his classroom,… they GAVE HIM TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD:)
The law requires that an employee maintain the pension that their salary has funded so there are two different issues. He definitely should hVe been fired so that the record has his egregious action on file.
this man should be in jail right away this is an atempt of child abuse and violence no teacher should allow to hit a child its wrong even with kids that has disability
He look like Putin
i remember when a teacher grabbed me like that my dad went to jail cause of it i couldnt imagine what this kids parents or guardian wants to do after this… hope this kid gets better and the teacher death from stoning
This is an act of terror toward our children of the fellow US citizens. Deport him back to russia now.
People rallying around a child abuser 🥴 Indiana is starting to rival florida
Must be a catholic teacher
Why the hoodie is illegal in this school.
Never be a teacher again!
Look at him!! Uuuugh
They approved his retirement????
The teach is simply wrong!!!
And for the coward students that defends that action… maybe their use to that type of abuse
Why would the other students support this pig??? Wth Indiana??
And just like that, this kid has money for College 👨🏻🎓
Shame on the people who defended this man.
Mike woulda been a dead man
Why is he not in jail?
ouf
🤣 this is the most American thing I’ve ever seen in my life😂 y’all should come to Africa
Hope this man is holding pockets. P.O.S
coward
this turns you on? abusing a child?
I would sue in civil court
If that were my child,, let’s just say my court hearing/ arraignment,, would have been the next day.. for real .
OVER A HOOD!
This man’s friends on the school board approved his resignation w/ full knowledge of this incident. If you as a parent much as think about draped up your pickney at the school that same teacher would call CPS on you. SMH him lucky him never cross my granny because she would have dealt with his case. He needs to be taught a lesson – lock him up!
Wait, so the students walked out in *SUPPORT* of the teacher? Yall are weird.
I have to say, I you slam any part of my child into a wall, we will be having a come to Jesus moment.
There is no way that people support him
What about students putting their hands on teachers
We have been hearing that something set this teacher off. Now we know. It was over a… hoodie.
he should be denied retirement pay.
No way he had no right putting his hands on that child then dragging him. I know his parent were up there now if a parent had done that there calling police , DCF everyone making trouble but the school try to cover something we all can see.
I’d want that teacher sentenced to death
Meanwhile on the other side of the world teachers literally have sticks for beating students 😂
He NEEDS to be charged for this!!!
Non disclosure agreement.
Knights. Those school board. Two times. Uniform. I know inspector general. Termination of board. Dr Jacqueline Greenwood . Brown v Board of Education.
Plyler v Doe
When I was in jr high study hall, the teacher could be heard slamming the locker with the student. We were scared sh*tless. 1964.
Why is it that when something bad happens inside a school that we haven’t fixed or trained people properly to handle the situation? Nobody deserves to be hit or punched.
If that was my kid…
What a community! They support an old man that attacks a child and leaves them crumpled on the floor because he’s a “good guy.” I hope he lands in court.
This is terrible. Makes me wonder how many more other students he assaulted that weren’t caught on camera. This can’t be his first one. He didn’t think twice in assaulting that child.
So since dad isn’t allowed to talk to the teacher he will face punishment which is adequate??
Disgusting
The kid was white, that’s the only reason for the outrage. Had that been a Black kid no one would even see a problem.
That’s unacceptable and no excuse. Teacher needs to do some Prison time for child abuse so he gets slapped around in the joint by convicts that will deal with child abusers accordingly.
Why do some american schools have problems with hoodies? Here at school u can wear everything except racist slogans
for some reason they have a total ban on wearing anything on your head except glasses
no sunglasses, no caps, no beanies, no earrings, nothing
There’s the repercussions, unfortunately the kid is going to be scarred for life. Unless of course they punish the teacher.
this is absolutely ridiculous, I don’t give a crap about how many awards or “teachers of the month” this dude has won, its not OK at all to hit a child.
Good
Maybe the kid had it coming
What? Did I hear it wrong? Students staged a walkout “in support of” the teacher? A teacher that hit a student’s head to the wall?
Why are people trying to support him?!
it’s pretty disgusting how people try to justify violence towards children
the people saying the kid deserved it are the same people who had a physically abusive parent
He basically knocked the kid out.
Slapped the kid so hard his head hit the wall and I bet that was exactly what he wanted his head to do smh. Anger destroys people.
That teacher NEEDS HIS HEAD REMOVED
Wle ma bteshbah a*** ma kaf wa7ad b5alik tshuf koura 2ardiye kela