Posted on 03/10/2023 12:43:53 PM PST by thegagline
8 News Now obtained what appears to be audio of a teacher claiming he’d like to inflict physical harm on a student.
The teacher is also recorded saying he’d like to poison the student’s food.
The student, who is listed as John Doe on the federal lawsuit, is suing the Clark County School District and a special education teacher at Desert Oasis High School.
Lagomarsino Law represents the 14-year-old student and they identify the teacher in the recordings as Courtney Billups.
“I’d love to get him in the room. I know I’d love to get him in the room and just beat them. I’ll pick him up and just keep throwing him. I just don’t like him,” Billups stated in the recordings.
According to Lagomarsino Law, students recorded Billups describing what he wanted to do to John Doe minutes after the teenager left the classroom.
“Pick him up and just keep slamming him into the floor to break his neck. That’s the kid that I just don’t like him. I don’t like what he does. I don’t like his energy,” Billups was recorded saying.
Lagomarsino Law shared with 8 News Now several audio recordings captured in November 2022.
“We did not know the extent to which any of these threats may be acted on,” Taylor Jorgensen, the attorney representing the Desert Oasis teen said.
The Clark County School District declined to reveal Billups’ current employment status and comment on the matter, citing pending litigation.
Jorgensen said at the time of the recordings, John Doe, who is black, was kicked out of class after calling another student who took off his hood the “n” word.
“He being Mr. Billups told our client that he’s acting like a slave, or he’s being a slave, or something along those lines, which he later apparently told our client’s mom, that he said that because they were currently reading a book about a slave,” Jorgensen said.
The federal lawsuit, which was filed last week, alleges four claims against CCSD, including intentional infliction of emotional distress and violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“It’s not something that you should have to worry about when you send your kid to school that, you know, his teacher, and a teacher in the special education department, is going to threaten your kid’s life,” Jorgensen said.
The 14-year-old boy is no longer a student at Desert Oasis and is continuing his studies at another school, according to Jorgensen.
The nuns beat us with yard sticks and pointers. Most times it was fairly doled out. God bless ‘em.
In the third grade, I saw a nun break a yardstick over a kid’s knuckles. I knew there were some complicated issues involved.
Metal yardsticks. Problem solved.
I remember students who thought it was their God Given Purpose in life to make the teacher’s lives miserable and drive them over the edge.
I remember one in which the teacher finally struck a 17 year old student for mouthing off in class. It was quite a fist fight between them. The teacher was told to resign as a result even though it was the student’s fault.
I also saw another 17 year old 150 lb student push around an elderly female teacher and walk out of class.
Why can’t a teacher vent? It’s human to vent. It can save the violence from actually happening. Sounds like a thought crime.
RE: beating, slamming, hurting the student....
Maybe the teacher meant it in a nice way./S
In 1st grade a nun hit my hand with a ruler really hard. Simply for flicking my pencil in my fingers.
In 5th grade the math teacher whipped chalk at kids who talked. Threw it like a baseball pitcher.
Those were the days.
Oh and in 6th grade, kids got paddled. The dean had big perforated paddle hanging on his wall.
I can only imagine what teachers said about me and my buddies behind closed doors. Personally I don’t have a problem with a teacher venting as I am sure every single teacher has said that about PITA students.
The punk kid got an attorney? What POS took THAT case?
Lots of teachers probably feel this way.
Kids can be truly obnoxious.
I remember my favorite saying when I was a school bus driver.
“Kids, ya can’t beat em,.... but ya sure would like to.”
But what if the snot nosed kid needs an ass whoopin??
I retired from the U.S. Navy with four Honorable Discharges (and a Navy Achievement Medal), maintained a TS security clearance in and out of the service, worked as a contractor for years for various Federal department (with a TS security clearance), and retired from Federal service from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, walking the corridors with Flag Officers (I met more admirals and generals during one week then my entire time in the Navy).
I was told by a teacher in my senior year that the principal wanted them to fail me but they did not because I always passed the tests and turned in the work.
Sue the school system - then protest for vouchers. No student should be treated like this... and the ‘teacher’? Needs to find a new line of work.
Poor penmanship. That’s why she cracked my knuckles. My penmanship got worse.
I had a couple of kids every year that would make me so mad, I fantasized about putting them in a cage and dropping it off in the middle of the desert. I mean, they made me so mad I thought I'd have a stroke.
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