Posted on 02/25/2023 1:24:40 PM PST by Morgana
A teaching aide who was brutally beaten by a 6'6" teen student is a 'humble' mom-of-two whose son attends the same high school, it has been revealed.
Joan Naydich, 57, of Palm Coast, Florida, was thrown to the ground and knocked unconscious by an unidentified teen student on Tuesday at Matanzas High School after she took away his Nintendo Switch.
The mother-of-two has a son Morgan, a senior, who attends the high school and a daughter who graduated in 2013. She has worked for Flagler County Schools since 2004 and has worked at Matanzas since 2021.
'Joan is humble, never asks for help and needs our love/support during this difficult time,' friend and fellow parent, Jessica White Leon, wrote on GoFundMe. 'I've had the privilege of getting to know Joan through our kids' bowling team for Matanzas HS for the last six years!'
Flagler County deputies found Naydich with 'severe' injuries after she was hit by the student at least 15 times. She was transported to a local hospital for treatment. It is unclear if she is still in the hospital.
Sheriff Rick Staly told WESH 2: 'This could have been a homicide.'
The student, who is special needs, was arrested and charged with a juvenile felony for aggravated battery with bodily harm, which faces up to five years. He is currently in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
In surveillance footage, released by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, the hulking student can be seen rushing up to Naydich before launching her across the room, her body flying several feet.
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They are still children until they are 18 which is a legal adult, that I will say. However they can be made to be accountable for their actions no matter if they are a child or a teen.
I still say special needs kids need to be taught how to behave.
Special needs? that’s a laugh, only special need that guy needs is to get his ass kicked up around the shoulders. That is the behaviour of an out of control adult. The hand holding, simpering attitudes for those that know nothing can ever be done to them because of a label needs to stop. If they are truly that troubled, they do not belong out in society, they need to be under lock and key.
Just look at the perp’s picture. And they will refer to him as a “child”.
Right now, that boy has some very special needs. He needs to be put down in the same way as any rabid animal is put down. A single bullet between his eyes will keep the animal from ever attacking a human again.
Like any rabid animal, it’s not their fault that they attack anything & anyone. We don’t hate the animal - it’s not personal. However, ike any rabid animal, it shouldn’t be allowed to live because there’s no saving it once it’s had the taste of blood.
A “special needs student” is often a problem child shuffled away from normal classes…
I hope she is smart enough not to return to that school. For this thug will be back there after a week or so and the next time he might kill her. Or, his friends may do it for him.
Read some of the comments from workers there defending the kid.
Hope this happens to them. Or worse.
The Matanzas High School student, 17, of Palm Coast, (pictured), who was not named due to his age, violently attacked the teaching aide after telling another student he was 'going to kill her' for taking his Nintendo Switch
The cop casually walks up to get the guy off the teacher. He sure doesn't want to break a sweat. That cop should be fired for not running to that teacher's defense.
Some time back, at least months if not a year ago, I was reading about a school district where they went back to special needs schools and a great write up on one of these schools. Some of these kids have severe behavioral and emotional disorders. Staff appeared to handle these very disturbed kids very ably, humanely, firmly, to good effect. Parents involved and helped to manage kids’ problems at home better and the kids improving. Consistency is key. This is what these kids need.
It was great back when I was a kid and “mainstreaming” meant letting in kids with physical disabilities. Here came Phil in his wheelchair. We all really liked Phil — he was a great kid. He just had paralysed legs. He fit right in and it seemed good for him and good for us. He was fun, intelligent, great sense of humor and totally trustworthy. Looking back, he was mature for his age but still just a Kid Like Us (same as some others in our class who were mature for their age but still just regular kids). He caused no problems whatsoever. All he needed was a table for a desk, not an all-in-one type desk like the rest of us. His Mom made great cupcakes, too.
The kids with severe behavioral and emotional problems need their own special schools. It’s cruel to mainstream them — it does them no favors, and is harmful and and dangerous to the other kids. And staff, of course.
This “student” will eventually kill someone.
Kid sounds like a natural for the NFL.
If I had a child at that school, I’d yank them out and not let them return until that kid was gone. He could just as easily beat up a kid.
I thought the reactions (or rather lack of reactions) from others in the video very bizarre and disturbing, too. The cop sure took his sweet time waddling over. That woman who just went on by like, oh, nothing special. All very odd. I can understand a older obese woman not wanting to take on that hulking violent young man, but why not at least holler at that cop to get in gear and get over there NOW? I don’t get it.
I wondered at first whether everyone at that school was obese or it something with the camera lens that made them look wider than they are, but then there were a couple who looked normal weight, so it was not the lens. What a strange video it was.
The only times that some individuals have done great things is when they were colonized by more advanced European nations, or were brought to North America as slaves and ultimately freed into an advanced culture of European origin. I often wonder if the theory that black skin is the “mark of Cain” isn’t true, because they certainly seem to have a penchant for brutal violence and they seem to have been cursed throughout their history as if an entire race was destined to pay for Cain’s sin.
I don’t want any of this to be true, but as Scott Adams laments, the situation is so bad (and always has been) that my attitude now is that if “black America” doesn’t care about its own welfare then why should I? The best that can be hoped for now is to be able to find somewhere to live where you can be as free as possible from their ignorance and brutality.
“We should have picked our own cotton”
Good one!
The teacher who tried to rescue her should have smacked him upside the dead with a chair.
By, “special needs” they seem to mean, “behavioral disorder.” When I was in school in the ‘90’s and early ‘00’s, they lumped the slow kids in with the BD kids and it usually didn’t help either. Not to mention that BD generally meant, “You don’t wan’na and we don’t know what else to do with you.”
I promise that this teen was not so slow that he couldn’t understand that beating on someone, let alone a woman much smaller than he, is a no-no.
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