Posted on 05/28/2022 8:55:28 AM PDT by Morgana
The principal of a Tennessee elementary school has been fired two and a half years after video emerged of her dragging a special education student through the school.
Helen Campbell was fired for 'unprofessional conduct, conduct unbecoming, insubordination, and neglect of duty' from Walter Hill Elementary in Murfreesboro Thursday.
Rutherford County Director of Schools Bill Spurlock said that on November 4, 2019, the unnamed student failed to comply to a request from Campbell.
She then grabbed the student by the ankles and dragged him through the school's hallway for 570 feet, equivalent to the length of two football fields.
The child sustained minor injuries. Both Campbell and teacher Bonnie Marlar had child abuse charges filed against them after Marlar helped drag the youngster.
The charges were eventually dismissed by a judge. Campbell and Marlar were suspended, and no decision has been made about Marlar's future with the school.
Spurlock has accused Campbell of attempting to destroy evidence, saying she tried to delete security footage from the school's cameras.
Campbell pled no contest to the charge and was given probation for a misdemeanor charge.
She issued the same plea, guaranteeing a conviction but not admitting guilt, to a neglect charge.
At a Thursday night board of education meeting, stills from that security video showed Campbell pulling the child by his arm from a chair, grabbing him by his belt and dragging him by the wrists.
Then, they are shown grabbing the boy's ankles and dragging him to the back of the school. They dragged him a total of 570 feet.
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Don't tell me he's in special ed, I don't want to hear that. When I was in Junior High the special ed teacher had a paddle hanging over his blackboard, and when ever some of the boys got out of hand he would point to it. I never even heard of him actually using it all he had to do is point to it and that was the end of it.
Unions and Lawyers. Wanna bet the teacher and principal will still sue?
think about it what else could they have done other than call the police which is really unpopular. They would have lost their job anyway had that kid hurt another child with his outburst so they had to get him to the safe room somehow.
The public school is part of the government, and the government is not designed to promote the best and brightest in its power structures.
so the kid refused to get up, and the principal hadn’t the strength to lift him, so she simply dragged him down a highly polished hallway.
I am failing to see the problem here.
Would liberals prefer she called the cops? because the cops would of simply handcuffed him and also carried or dragged him, and worst-case.. shot him for resisting.
Not a bad idea, although the problem is teachers lack the morals, the intelligence, and critical decision making skills to do the correct thing. I have zero respect for teachers. They have been indoctrinated into leftist thinking through their own education. I don't agree with the crap they teach. I don't agree with how they teach. Teachers are not successful. They are low achievers, and have been all their lives. The proof is in the product that they produce. I don't want to pay for them and I don't want them around children. That's why I homeschooled my children and my daughter is homeschooling my grandson.
I remember when I was in school, many kids who came in who misbehaved weren’t assigned a boutique handicap; they were just called brats. Most often, they “recovered” quickly thanks to discipline — back when discipline wasn’t illegal.
I’m sure there were some who had true mental issues, but probably not the majority.
Dragged lives matter.
In the old days they were. When I was in Grade School our principal used to walk the halls like General Patton with a paddle that was nothing more than one of those old thin paddle ball paddles. Can’t hurts you really but back then it scared us.
Kids today don’t have principals like that!
Autistic kids shouldn’t be in the same classroom as normal kids. They need a different level of attention, and probably would have benefitted from a male teacher and male principal to control and discipline unruly behavior.
Let’s be honest okay? Even kids who have “special needs” can misbehave and need their behavior “corrected”.
That does not rule out getting mental health treatment but that does not also rule out busting a butt once in a while.
“Autistic kids shouldn’t be in the same classroom as normal kids. They need a different level of attention, and probably would have benefitted from a male teacher and male principal to control and discipline unruly behavior.”
In comment 1 where I’m talking about a special ed teacher I knew of in Junior high? That was a male teacher. Notice I also said “boys” when it came to who misbehaved. Most who were in there was learning disabled, slow learners or hyper active (what ever they call that today) there were no autistic back then, not like today.
He did a good job of controlling them.
Gym teacher at mine had one.
Used it.
The world is not operating like it is supposed to.
No, not at all. Not even close and it is not getting better.
Criminalizing corporal punishment- an evil act by Democrat scum.
Ah to be 11 again.
I really don’t recall who was more challenging.
In school was getting the whacks and out of school was wrestling and boxing class on the grass.
Somehow I made it as “pretty good”.
It is a young mans way to find courage.
What ever possesses people to do things like this?
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his parents could homeschool him. Problem solved
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