Posted on 02/24/2026 9:00:57 PM PST by Morgana
A Texas kindergarten teacher was arrested after allegedly twisting a five-year-old boy’s arm and forcing him into a corner for breaking a pencil, authorities say.
Pamela Mitchell, 64, was taken into custody Thursday, more than a month after police say she attacked a young boy in her Waco classroom at J.H. Hines Elementary for snapping a pencil, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by KWTX News.
Court documents revealed that Mitchell grabbed the child, twisted his arm behind his back and dragged him out of his seat.
'She used her knee and placed it in the center of the child's back, forcing the child in the corner,' according to the affidavit.
Mitchell was booked into the McLennan County Jail on Friday and charged with injury to a child, a third-degree felony that carries up to 10 years behind bars. She is being held on a $3,000 bond.
'The student has recovered and is free from injury,' WISD spokesperson Jill Anderson told the outlet.
'We recognize the gravity of this situation and remain steadfast in our commitment to protecting the students in our care,' she added.
According to the affidavit, the assault happened on January 8, after Mitchell briefly left the classroom and came back to discover a pencil the boy had allegedly broken.
After being told by her school aide what occurred while she stepped out, Mitchell allegedly lunged at the child and attacked him.
School officers were alerted to the alleged assault after the aide reported it to the Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS), according to KWTX.
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This sounds like something that was fine when I was growing up, too.
What marks were on the kid?
yeah, sounds like some of the old battleaxe teachers i had as a tyke ...
“What marks were on the kid?”
From what I read none. The child was fine. It was the parents “you can’t do that to my baby”. So the kid learns he can be a brat all he wants in school.
My guess is that he was being a brat in the first place.
He’s only five. He’s a boy, he broke a pencil. So what. This woman was out of control. I would have been livid.
Did the headline writer think we’d assume it was a male kindergarten teacher without including that critical distinction?
I grew up not far from there. A teacher in our school would hit you on the head with a yardstick from behind if you were doodling or zoned out. You didn’t see it coming... startling as hell.
But that was better that the Principal’s office. You had to pick the paddle, the big one with holes, or the smaller one. Lot’s of debates about the relative merits of each.
And if you got a detention, you could stay after school, or go in at lunch and get three swats to burn one off.
‘The student has recovered and is free from injury,’ WISD spokesperson Jill Anderson told the outlet.”
Poor little tyke. Little prick...
“Mitchell was booked into the McLennan County Jail on Friday and charged with injury to a child, a third-degree felony that carries up to 10 years behind bars. She is being held on a $3,000 bond.”
Put me on the jury.
Its them again boo boo
“Mitchell was booked into the McLennan County Jail on Friday and charged with injury to a child, a third-degree felony that carries up to 10 years behind bars. She is being held on a $3,000 bond.”
Rough. My kindergarten teacher had a wooden paddle with the word candy made from drilling holes through the paddle. Course that was back in the day. lol!
It is rather amazing the number of people who think they can man-handle children.
Would she have lunged at a 5 yr old black boy like that, with an equal amount of fury? I tend to doubt it.
She’s still trying to become a certified instructor, and flipped her lid over what looks like an ongoing power struggle tween her and that stubborn little boy.
I bet it wasn’t little Johnny’s first rodeo. I bet he was black also. Where a 5 year old black boy gets the idea he can take on a black grandma, I have no idea.
He better wake up or I won’t give him odds of making it past age 6, or.... the next family reunion.
“Don’t come back until you’ve redeemed yourselves!”
I should have PTSD... but I don’t. Lol
No parents were interested in complaining about it.
“Rough. My kindergarten teacher had a wooden paddle with the word candy made from drilling holes through the paddle. Course that was back in the day. lol!”
I don’t even remember my kindergarten teacher having to bring that up. I don’t remember kids acting out at that age. Maybe they did but I don’t recall it and I do remember being in Kindergarten. Now first grade, yes I remember that. The teacher rode in every day on her broom stick. She had a big wooden paddle hung up behind her desk.
I wonder at what grade these union thug “teachers” start dropping “F” bombs on their students.
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