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Posted on 02/04/2015 8:18:37 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
FRANCISVILLE, La. – A Louisiana teacher is out of a job after police allege she kicked and slapped one of her first grade students last month.
Chanel Lemelle, 31, resigned from her position at Bains Lower Elementary School in St. Francisville last week as investigators looked into allegations she struck a student in the cafeteria during lunch Jan. 23, The Advocate reports.
“She’s very sad that this is going on,” Lemelle’s attorney, Don Cazayoux, told the news site. “She loves teaching, loves her students and would never do anything to hurt any of her children.”
Camera footage of the school’s cafeteria and witness reports, however, tell a different story.
“A sheriff’s deputy who reviewed camera footage of the incident wrote in an arrest report that as the student walked by Lemelle in the school’s cafeteria, she could be seen kicking him in the rear,” according to The Advocate.
“The video also showed her slapping the boy on the back of the head, the deputy wrote.”
Prior to the incident, witnesses said Lemelle yelled at the student “in a loud and degrading manner because he was not walking like he was supposed to,” and held the child back from the lunch line until his classmates received their food, according to the police report.
When the student returned with his lunch, Lemelle allegedly made the child sit by himself, then took some of his food, telling him “he only needed one taco,” the news site reports.
The student recounted the same story when interviewed by Child Advocacy Services, according to the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Lemelle was charged with one count of cruelty to juveniles Monday, immediately posted a $20,000 bail, and was released. She was replaced by a new teacher the same day, superintendent Hollis Milton told The Advocate.
Witnesses told a sheriff’s deputy that it wasn’t the first time Lemelle was inappropriate with students.
They said she often brought an empty plate to lunch and filled it with food from her students. One of the witnesses also allegedly found Lemelle in the hallway about a week ago with the same student she’s charged with abusing. The child was crying and Lemelle was yelling and “waiving a stick at him,” according to the police report.
Lemelle has taught in the district the last 10 years, and is the daughter of a retired federal prosecutor who now operates a private law firm with Cazayoux, The Advocate reports.
Many parents who commented on the story online were clearly not impressed with Lemelle’s alleged conduct.
“If I was that child’s mother, you’d have to hold me back. The camera doesn’t lie!” Dee Murphy posted to Facebook. “Let’s hope the child gets counseling and justice is rightfully served on her (without daddy’s wrongful intervention)! Makes me sick!!!”
“She’s lucky she wasn’t my child!” Stan Smith wrote.
Other parents in the district allege school officials have a history of tacitly condoning bullying behavior.
“I know what my child has experienced within this school district,” Michelle A. Gaines posted. “My child was belittled by a teacher in front of a whole classroom full of kids, he was verbally assaulted by a student, and knocked down all in the presence of a teacher. Nothing was done. I have gone to the school several times …”
“This school system is horrible and they cover up so much wrong doing. I feel sorry for other parents who have had the same issues and pulled their kids from this school district. I have recently pulled my child,” she wrote.
Superintendent Milton, meanwhile, contends Lemelle’s abuse allegations are in contrast to “the positive, warm culture that children experience every day” at the school, according to The Advocate.
“At the end of the day, it’s still a wonderful school,” he said.
Neither Chanel Lemelle’s sister, Versace Lemelle, nor her brother, Oscar de la Renta Lemelle, had any comment on the matter.
I’m guessing the teacher had been specially deputized by Michelle to monitor the one taco criteria. The teacher must have also watched Monty Python at some point with her insistence on walking a certain way.
Lol!
The Wookie will probably recruit her, she will know go by the name “The Enforcer”.
Typical whack job lib
I was talking about her behavior in the days & weeks prior. According to the article, she bullied him.
I’d love to see her get jail time, but she won’t.
...scared me to death.
She looks like a center on a pro football team- look at that neck.
Chanel doesn’t need an extra taco.
And along with this fat witch, her principal and the superintendent should be fired for allowing this known defective to teach defenseless first graders.
Or maybe a better question is “Why should they want to?”
I’ve never fit in well in school or any place else, really. It hasn’t stopped me from being successful. I just don’t have much interest in the pointless things most people seem to be hung up on. My kids are like that too. When I see popular “culture” I believe that this is only to the good.
Was the student white? Hate crime?
Based on her photo I don’t think it can be discounted that the teacher’s attack might have been motivated, at least in part, to score some more mouthfuls for herself.
And this is not new. Children have been bullied and harrassed by teachers for decades. The Fatso Judson syndrome - a reference from the novel From Here to Eternity.
I will not go and say that all children should be home schooled. Let's face it - some parents are not capable of it. But this one size fits all to public education does not work. Also, the public education system is not in the Constitution, so the Federal Government has no business being connected with it.
I feel so bad for this first grader. He is scarred for a long time. I bet you a dollar to a donut that the first grader is not one of the elite or smart kids. Probably an average student and will now probably be a below average student.
As a product of a broken home and dysfunctional family, I can attest first hand knowledge of how teachers treat these types of kids. I did not understand it at the time but came to an understanding later in my 20's/30's.
The public school system - as it is today - needs to be dismantled and have it all return to local control. And for those who advocate this type of system, I want them to show me the Jeffersons, Hamiltons, Adams, et al, of today.
+1
The key part here is the existance of video of the attack.
There was a story in WaPo yesterday (I think) of a DC teacher who was accused by a 7 year old back in 2001 of hitting him and knocking him down. Teacher was fired, arrested and prosecuted (acquittal) and the DC schools sued for $20 million with a $100k settlement.
More recently the kid (now a scholar/athlete at Morehouse) reached out to the former teacher (now a lawyer) and apologized. And they’ve become friends.
No mention of whether the $100k is going to be repaid, with interest. But it did note that the kid drives a BMW paid for out of the settlement.
So these sorts of things can go both ways, at least without video.
i sometimes choose to post them LARGE, but, yes, I would like more flexibility for more suitable sizing on occaission
sounds like she has been stealing food from the kids for years too, not just this one kid
she has been doing this for years and years I bet
the other teachers and lunch workers all knew I suspect
I did not expect her to be a cetacean. She must have been stealing the kids food.
“You don’t need that taco! I DO! LAY OFF ME I’M STARVING!”
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