Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Pretty sad - public school teacher puts out a hit on one of her students

A kid bad mouths a teacher and she arranges for some other students to beat him up.

Teacher who ‘ordered a hit’ on 7th grader gets fired starts with:

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Florida’s St. Lucie County School Board officially fired veteran teacher Dru Dehart after their investigation found that she encouraged six 8th grade students to beat up 7th grader Radravious Williams, WPTV NewsChannel 5 reports.

The incident occurred on March 20, 2013 and was caught on a Northport K-8 school surveillance camera. Footage shows the teacher pointing to the victim, instructing the students to go after him. Williams is then seen on the hallway floor being pummeled by a group of boys. "I looked at them and I was like, ‘Are you serious?’" Radravious told WPTV during an April 2013 press conference . The older boys, ranging in age from 11 to 15, were once Radravious’ friends but were instructed by Dehart to “teach him a lesson.”
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I think most parents realize that government schools may not be safe places for their children, but then expect the teachers to protect the children.  Too often parents are surprised.

I do have one complaint that it took a year to process this.  The investigation and school board decision really should have taken only a couple weeks.

2 comments:

Happy Elf Mom (Christine) said...

AHHHH, you remember Ft. St. Lucie schools! NOT the first time rotten teachers from there have been in the news...

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/23/st-lucie-teacher-has-class-vote-whether-5-year-old/

Henry Cate said...

No, I remembered that event, but forgotten where it happened.

Ugh!

Hopefully more parents will pull their children and homeschool them.