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Posted on 02/24/2026 9:00:57 PM PST by Morgana
A Texas kindergarten teacher was arrested after allegedly twisting a five-year-old boy’s arm and forcing him into a corner for breaking a pencil, authorities say.
Pamela Mitchell, 64, was taken into custody Thursday, more than a month after police say she attacked a young boy in her Waco classroom at J.H. Hines Elementary for snapping a pencil, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by KWTX News.
Court documents revealed that Mitchell grabbed the child, twisted his arm behind his back and dragged him out of his seat.
'She used her knee and placed it in the center of the child's back, forcing the child in the corner,' according to the affidavit.
Mitchell was booked into the McLennan County Jail on Friday and charged with injury to a child, a third-degree felony that carries up to 10 years behind bars. She is being held on a $3,000 bond.
'The student has recovered and is free from injury,' WISD spokesperson Jill Anderson told the outlet.
'We recognize the gravity of this situation and remain steadfast in our commitment to protecting the students in our care,' she added.
According to the affidavit, the assault happened on January 8, after Mitchell briefly left the classroom and came back to discover a pencil the boy had allegedly broken.
After being told by her school aide what occurred while she stepped out, Mitchell allegedly lunged at the child and attacked him.
School officers were alerted to the alleged assault after the aide reported it to the Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS), according to KWTX.
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Oh yeah! We got our hair pulled, our ears twisted, grabbed by the shoulders and shook, and paddled.
It’s bad but I have to confess that
scene makes me laugh every time
five years old,
little prick..
Physical violence against a student is wrong unless it is self defense. Circa 1954 first grade Pecos, Texas. Mrs. Pruitt would tie an out of control student into his chair for about and half hour or more. He was not hurt. He was humiliated and laughed at by the other students. It worked. Oddly the other students laughing at him had great effect.
Mrs. Pruitt was actually a very kind lady and good teacher.
Why would you say that about a little boy? A teacher does not get to hurt a student. Thank God for that teachers aid. Doesn’t matter what happened back in the day.
My cousins all went to Catholic schools. The boy cousins were always getting abused y the crazy nuns. Paddles rulers etc. I went to public school in the burbs. we had none of that nonsense.
I grew up in Texas. Ummmm our teachers and principals would whip our asses. Oh and if our parents found out we had to be disciplined at school it was way worse at home. I remember kids screaming “Don’t call mom!”
I grew up with teachers where they would hit you with a yard stick, if you fell asleep would slam books down on the desk, the principals were always very generous with the paddle, and one use to throw chalk erasers at student who got answers wrong and call you names.
I hated school. It was a prison. Where else are you forced to go, with people you don’t like, and obey guard or face corporal punishment?
LOL!
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LOL
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LOL! Truth. I had nuns. The teacher in this story is an amateur.
at 5 years old?
Having been a five-year-old boy
He most likely needed the whooping
Nuns were just as bad - I had my hand smacked with a pointer for “wasting paper” because when practicing our writing, we wrote prayers and I didn’t squeeze the word “Mary” at the end of a line, but wrote it on the next line - and we only used half the sheet in the first place...
I’m also shocked they used the term, “female”....
When I was in grade school teachers did stuff like this. They would even slap your hand if they did not want you touching stuff.
Would that I had had such "nice" teachers as you when I attended elementary school (in the 1960s).
Unfortunately, I was taught by old Catholic nuns - many of them from Ireland.
Regards,
you are part of the problem ...
the nuns could show her a thing or two.
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