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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Animals fighting animals. If would make 0 difference if she put away her cell phone. Thru are losers and that’s that
There were limits to the “if you’re done you can read” rule, I learned one day when the principal came into my classroom, saw me reading a book and literally tore it to shreds.
The funny part is, it was a school library book, and HE had to pay for it...
Oh, I finished that class (9th grade chemistry) with an A+...
My 13 year old is the only one in his class without a smartphone.
He complains bitterly that kids only communicate via snapchat and he is left out.
I’m sticking to not giving him a smartphone before 16, but my wife is fed up with the whining and “everyone else has it”. And the fact is that outside of a few concerned families like ours, I see smartphones in the hands of every child aged 10 or over
I can’t agree.
Modern society continues to circle the drain.
Stay strong dad.
Teenage minds are very immature and still developing at a rapid rate.
That development needs control and I have seen first hand the tragic results of easy access to cell phones 24/7.
I recently retired and one of my responsibilities before retirement was initial training of plant infield operators.
These young men and women came to me for their first experiences in how to operate equipment correctly and safely.
They came individually and in small groups.
Many would not be able to give me their undivided attention for more than a few minutes. Within a few minutes their head would be down looking at their phone and ignoring me and the task at hand.
More than once I had to tell the trainee to put the phone away (some more than once).
Young minds are easily addicted to the constant stimulation of cell phones and the internet.
Cell phones also give teens way too many opportunities to do stupid things like sexting and on line bullying.
Cell phones also make teens accessible to predators.
If they must have a cell phone a flip phone will limited capabilities would be a good option.
Mental dicipline is something kids do not learn today and they can not due to way to much screen time.
I believe it.
And agree.
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