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Police: Substitute [Teacher] Drags 1st-Grader Down Hall
thebostonchannel.com ^ | 5-17-2007 | Staff Writer

Posted on 05/17/2007 7:10:15 AM PDT by bedolido

BOSTON -- A Lawrence substitute teacher was suspended Wednesday after grabbing a first-grader by his shirt and pulling him down a hallway on Tuesday, police said.

Douglas Tracia, 48, was charged with assault and battery because there were scratches and lacerations on the boy's neck, police said. The incident was captured by a surveillance camera at the South Lawrence East School on Osgood Street.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 1stgrader; badboy; brat; down; drags; hall; hellsspawn; littlepunk; police; substitute; teacher
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1 posted on 05/17/2007 7:10:22 AM PDT by bedolido
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I have 1 ear longer than the other. Dang, where is my 1st grade teacher.


2 posted on 05/17/2007 7:12:40 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhymes, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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Oh my god in Taxachusettstan that poor bastard is going to JAIL for trying to discipline a kid in the LIBERALS’ public schools system.


3 posted on 05/17/2007 7:12:57 AM PDT by Jazzman1 (l)
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To: bedolido

WHAT ABSOLUTE CRAP!

This guy grabbed a child who ran out of the classroom and marched him back to class.... he didn’t “DRAG” this kid. This guys getting railroaded.


4 posted on 05/17/2007 7:13:04 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: bedolido
And we wonder why there are so many juvenile delinquents (pc for punks.)
5 posted on 05/17/2007 7:13:25 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter)
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"Our primary goal is to keep children in a safe and secure environment for learning," Laboy said in a statement.

They better remove some students then.

6 posted on 05/17/2007 7:13:51 AM PDT by beaversmom
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We had the BEST principle in grade school. One day she had to take care of a boy that was causing problems. She came into the class grabbed him by the shirt drug him down the hall banging him aganist the wall all the way to his office. The guy was kicked out of school forever. He ended up being a murderer years later. Of coarse this was back in the 1970’s when if a child got a spanking at school they got one at home.


7 posted on 05/17/2007 7:14:12 AM PDT by therut
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Luis' mother, Lina Tejada

Need any more explanation than that?????? I know I don't.

8 posted on 05/17/2007 7:14:12 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: bedolido

We had the BEST principle in grade school. One day she had to take care of a boy that was causing problems. She came into the class grabbed him by the shirt drug him down the hall banging him aganist the wall all the way to his office. The guy was kicked out of school forever. He ended up being a murderer years later. Of coarse this was back in the 1970’s when if a child got a spanking at school they got one at home.


9 posted on 05/17/2007 7:14:22 AM PDT by therut
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To: bedolido

We had the BEST principle in grade school. One day she had to take care of a boy that was causing problems. She came into the class grabbed him by the shirt drug him down the hall banging him aganist the wall all the way to his office. The guy was kicked out of school forever. He ended up being a murderer years later. Of coarse this was back in the 1970’s when if a child got a spanking at school they got one at home.


10 posted on 05/17/2007 7:14:25 AM PDT by therut
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Poor little bastard’s mom was absolutely devestated by the incident...at least that’s the impression I got from her translator


11 posted on 05/17/2007 7:15:02 AM PDT by wally-balls
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To: therut

Good grief what happened. 3 postings. Sorry.


12 posted on 05/17/2007 7:15:51 AM PDT by therut
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To: bedolido

The link had the video. After review, the video will help the teacher in court .


13 posted on 05/17/2007 7:16:27 AM PDT by Orange1998
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To: bedolido
Douglas Tracia, 48, was charged with assault and battery because there were scratches and lacerations on the boy's neck, police said.

Is it possible those wounds came from something else?

14 posted on 05/17/2007 7:17:11 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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Not a lot of information, so I won't mindlessly support the teacher. But I will say that teachers ought to be able to discipline kids, and constantly second-guessing everything a teacher does and saying "That crosses the line" everytime a teacher tries to enforce classroom discipline is a terrible mistake, and quite likely to have far worse repercussions than dragging a kid down a hall by his shirt.

I'm willing to bet that the kids in the class were throwing books at each other mostly because they had never been discipline for it in the past. And look what happens when the discipline begins -- the teacher gets fired.

15 posted on 05/17/2007 7:17:36 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: bedolido; All
Kill Your Teacher: Corruption And Racism in Los Angeles City Schools
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16 posted on 05/17/2007 7:19:25 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: bedolido

I smell a lawsuit. Too bad the money will be spent by the time the kid drops out of school.


17 posted on 05/17/2007 7:19:26 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Orange1998

The teacher is a substitue, he is also a lawyer. I think he will do fine in court.


18 posted on 05/17/2007 7:21:49 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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And look what happens when the discipline begins -- the teacher gets fired.

Exactly or worse--read the two stories below your post. They are almost unbelievable. The kids run the show and if you bat an eyelash, the parent is there to collect their lottery winnings.

19 posted on 05/17/2007 7:23:23 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: showme_the_Glory
I have 1 ear longer than the other.

Both of mine are longer than the other...complete with clothes pin marks. I was a bad kid. :)
20 posted on 05/17/2007 7:24:33 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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