Posted on 01/14/2011 12:15:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
Substitute teacher charged with 3 counts of child abuse
Temper tantrums in an elementary school class are common, but not from the teacher.
But that's what happened in Sarasota, where a substitute teacher was arrested after he assaulted three students who he was supposed to be teaching.
The teacher, 55-year-old William Amory, reportedly got upset - not at the students - but because his teaching equipment wouldn't work. When the kids tried to help him out, Amory lost his cool and started throwing punches. Talk about someone who might need a class in anger management.
According to Sarasota Sheriff's deputies, Amory was assigned to a second-grade class at Emma E. Booker Elementary School. Everything was going smoothly until he started having trouble with the classroom's electronic whiteboard, which broadcasts computer images onto a screen in front of the classroom. The substitute became so agitated that he tossed the remote control for the whiteboard against a wall, deputies claim.
That's when a 7-year-old and 8-year-old boy tried to come help the teacher. Bad idea.
Amory punched both of the boys in their stomachs and then when a 7-year-old girl got near the action, Amory pushed her over a chair.
One of the boys was hit twice and he threw up in front of the class. When the students tried to leave the classroom, Amory told them to get back in their seats. School administrators didn't learn about the incident until the following day. One of the boys had to go to the hospital with chest pains.
When deputies showed up to question Amory about the incident, he admitted that he did become 'agitated' while teaching in the class.
Now he's in time out, charged with three counts of child abuse.
Dude’s a liberal. I gaurrantee it.
I think it’s time that Sarah Palin and her hateful vitriol is reeled in before another tragedy like this takes place.
Somehow this must be Sarah’s fault.
George Costanza: [pause] Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
“Considering the hell which I and my classmates put substitute teachers through, I’m surprised that a few of us didn’t get punched.”
Ain’t that the truth...
Unforgiveable. Get him out of there and make sure he doesn’t return to a classroom again. He is not WORTHY. I hope they check him out good.
Sounds like a typical member of a teacher’s union.
Oh yes, them thar teechurs are all violent, but only if they’re in a union.
This would not have happened if the guy wasn’t in a union.
Generalize much?
At least he didn’t have sex with any of them.
Did her Voodoo Map of Death target Sarasota? That would prove it.
He should be very glad it wasn't my child he punched though....
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