Posted on 01/24/2015 7:48:15 PM PST by EinNYC
PATERSON, N.J. (PIX11) — A ninth grader at John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson, N.J. was arrested Friday after police say he attacked his teacher and slammed him to the floor in the classroom.
All because of a cell phone.
The attack, captured on video, shows the teen slamming the 62-year-old teacher to the floor in front of other students in an effort to get his cell phone back on Thursday.
David Cozart, principal of operations at JFK, said the incident began when the teacher confiscated the phone from the student.
The 23-second video shows the 16-year-old with his arms wrapped around the teacher, knocking him into an empty desk. The student then wrestles the teacher across the front of the classroom before slamming him to the floor.
The teen then reaches down and takes something from the teacher before breaking away when someone in the classroom yelled, “Security!”
City school officials confirmed to New Jersey.com that criminal charges have been filed against the student, who has been suspended from school.
The student is charged with assaulting a teacher in a classroom.
District officials have not revealed the name of the teacher or student.
The student has been suspended and will receive home instruction for now.
“What strikes me is that the teacher never even defended himself,” said Lee McNulty, a retired JFK teacher who has been vocal recently with criticism about violence and disorder in the high school. “That just shows how much teachers are afraid of losing their job.”
White lives don't.
Another Gentle Giant?
Let me guess, Amish yet again?
Watch the video at the source site. Matter of fact, yes, the perp looks of the Amish persuasion.
Uh, my thought on kids and phones at school is that they be turned in upon arrival and not returned until the end of classes for the day. If there’s that big of an emergency, the admin office can make the calls. How did we ever survive without them as kids? Very well I’m thinkin’.
A 16 year old in grade nine?
WOW, just WOW!
And just notice the student in the background GRINNING at the teacher being assaulted and injured. Just as big a piece of garbage as the perp. I’ve had times when I had a piece of phlegm fall down the back of my throat and cause me to start coughing and choking, in from of a class. Many of the students started laughing, instead of being concerned like a normal human might. This is a result of being set down in front of a TV from the earliest age instead of interacting with by a parent. They do not develop human empathy.
The teacher did not fight back at all.
I know many will disagree, but absent due process (court), you can’t just take someone’s property.
The teacher has the right to expel the person from the class, but not to take a cell phone. Cell phones cost upwards of $500 and often have very personal and sensitive information on them.
You have a strange interpretation of the 5th Amendment. And you’ve obviously never taught a classroom full of teenagers.
What race is the teacher? It’s hard to tell from the photo if he is white, black, or Hispanic. If he’s white he could be accused of racism. But my guess (from the photo) is that he is not white.
If the school policy states "no cell phones out in class", then the teacher has a perfect right to confiscate the phone. In such cases, the phone is either returned after class, after school, or very typically, it is returned to a parent who has to come to the school to get it.
Chances are the student will be a millionaire athlete, “an aspiring rapper” or in prison for much of his life.
I think your last option is the most likely. What upstanding sort of future successful anyone would assault a teacher?
“If the school policy states “no cell phones out in class”, then the teacher has a perfect right to confiscate the phone.”
Someone’s or some Org’s policy does not trump law or the constitution... The kid very well may have had a “policy” as well. “your not allowed to take me phone”.
So, no it doesn’t give them the right to do anything. Through him out, that’s all...
If your going to give up your rights to somebody’s policies, I feel sorry fo you.
Sorry, but you don’t know what you’re talking about. A student has no right to a cell phone on campus, and a teacher is well within his rights to take it. No 5th Amendment rights are implicated at all. There has been no “taking” and the student has not been “deprived” of anything by having his phone confiscated for an hour or a day.
Cellphone jammers throughout the school.
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