Posted on 02/26/2025 4:08:16 PM PST by Morgana
A teacher is being investigated after he was caught throwing a 13-year-old girl around a classroom 'like a rag doll' while trying to stop her using her phone during class.
Shocking video shows the altercation at Samuel P. Massie Academy in Forestville, around nine miles south-east of Washington DC on Tuesday morning.
A male educator forcefully pinned a teenager down on a desk before appearing to choke her during the violent altercation in the Maryland classroom.
The pupil, identified as Cassidy, said she had been watching a movie on her phone for 10 minutes after completing an assignment when the teacher pounced on her.
Her outraged mother, Anitra Lang, accused him of 'slamming' her daughter around 'like a rag doll'. Cassidy also described the incident in an interview.
'He grabbed me by my chest and neck and slammed me on the desk while choking me,' Cassidy told Fox News.
'I had been on my phone for the past 10 minutes before he snatched my phone up,' she added.
Footage shows the substitute teacher, who has not been named, grab the phone from Cassidy's hand before holding it away from her grasp.
'I kept reaching for my phone and he kept pulling it back,' Cassidy said. 'I was pulling on his shirt, cause why do you have my phone?'
Moments later, the teacher threw her down on the desk. 'I got up and he was grabbing on my chest and stuff and he pulled me away,' she said.
Lang said she was horrified by the footage of the teacher treating her daughter 'like a rag doll'.
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Largo, Maryland. I used to live not-far-enough-away from there. Not someplace I would go unless absolutely necessary.
I remember teens in High School sixty years ago who could have used a beat down as they tried to drive the teachers over the “edge”.
It's often parents who complain the most when schools try to ban phones. "What if there's a school shooter and my kid needs to call me?"
This young lady is 13 and attending Samuel P. Massie Academy, an
elementary school. It does include 7th grade. Rated 3.2 stars average in 22 ratings.
I was wondering if she attacked him.
> I donāt mind them having cell phones. <
Then everything will become an āemergencyā. The teacher is presenting a lesson. A student makes - or takes - a cell phone call. āItās an emergency.ā The entire class is disrupted.
Iām a retired city high school teacher. Iāve seen that happen many times.
> They record the stupid woke crap teachersā¦ <
We had cameras in the schoolās hallways. Iāve always strongly advocated for cameras in the classrooms too. And any parent should be able to access the feed on the internet.
I never talked to a single teacher who was against that. But it never happened, as administrators want total 100% control over everything.
> In this case the child had done her classworkā¦ <
So she says. Then work on assignments from other classes. Or ask for extra credit work. Allowing one student on a cell phone would cause a cascade of cell phone use. All of a sudden everyone would claim to be finished with their work.
I know what Iām talking about here, at least as it applies to urban schools.
Kids should not be on phones during class time.
Good grief just ban them anywhere but their lockers the whole day. Let parents call the office and get the kid down there if they must contact them. Its a huge distraction to learning in the classroom. They have crappy attention spans as it is. Don’t need more attention grabbers.
Just carry a portable cellphone jammer.
Entitled little bitch named “Cassidy”, doing what she’s been told not to do. The consequences might’ve been too harsh, but an FAFO situation for sure.
I have no sympathy for her.
Thereās a forty slot phone rack by the door in all of my sons classrooms. They must rack the phone before they take their seat.
In s.c. Cell phone usage is bann3d in public schools. Problem solved.
Well said.
Itās them again, Yogi.
Iāve mentioned a few times having family members in public education.
Their reports of student behavior suggests that cellphones are much like a narcotic addiction for children. And behave accordingly when denied their electronic drug.
Administration personnel and principals are cowards when dealing with the issue.
I’m good with what he did.
“...he snatched my phone up”
No photo needed.
āWhatever happened to simple passing handwritten notes in class?ā
That assumes the ability to write.
Or read cursive.
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