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Florida Teacher Charged After Biting Students Over Jar of Pickles: Police
Newsweek ^ | March 8, 2022 | Jack Beresford

Posted on 08/15/2022 12:20:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A Florida teacher is facing criminal charges over allegations she bit two students in a dispute over a jar of pickles.

According to WFLA, Bartow police and the Florida state attorney's office have filed two misdemeanor battery charges against Polk County educator Rhonda Rice. She is due to be arraigned on March 31.

The charges relate to an alleged incident that took place at Bartow Middle School in October 2021.

Kathy Toro told WFLA her 15-year-old nephew and another student were allegedly bitten by Rice, who was working there as a teacher, after she attempted to take a jar of pickles from the school store the pair were manning at the time.

When the two students tried to take the jar off Rice, she allegedly bit them both.

Toro told the news outlet: "She just bit them on the forearm and, of course, they released and she was able to get the pickles but there's other ways to do that."

The incident was reported to school administrators who contacted Toro. She subsequently filed charges with Bartow police in November 2021.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2timothy3verses1to7; arth; chat; daniel12verse10; florida; floridawoman; floriduh; inapickle; pickles; polkcounty; romans1verses18to22
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1 posted on 08/15/2022 12:20:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: metmom

ARTH from March 2022.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 12:20:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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3 posted on 08/15/2022 12:24:46 PM PDT by RummyChick
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Give the groomer 30 years!


4 posted on 08/15/2022 12:25:31 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well there’s a headline you don’t see every day


5 posted on 08/15/2022 12:26:02 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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6 posted on 08/15/2022 12:26:19 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: V_TWIN

“she attempted to take a jar of pickles from the school store.....”

When I went to school all you could get from the school store was paper, pencils and pens........I must be getting old


7 posted on 08/15/2022 12:29:20 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We already had Florida Man and Florida Woman. Now we can add Florida Teacher.

Aside: Am I the only one bugged by the word “educator”? What’s up with that? What’s wrong with “teacher”?


8 posted on 08/15/2022 12:31:24 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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When I went to school all you could get from the school store was paper, pencils and pens........I must be getting old

LOL, same here.

9 posted on 08/15/2022 12:31:30 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Biting is actually serious. We had a student assistant at work who was studying law enforcement and dreamed of being an officer. She took up a part time job as a large store security officer.

Along with other daily crimes one woman had some stolen items on her and the student identified herself and held her outside the doors. The woman took a really hard bite at her forearm that bled a lot. She somehow held the woman as police arrived.

The student was forced to have HIV/AIDS testing and wait for a certain amount of days, along with herarm damage and her stitches messing up her college class work which was now one handed. Plus she was shaken up. Welcome to urban police work.

Thanks be to God she was okay.

Never underestimate the disease that urban types are carrying, though.


10 posted on 08/15/2022 12:31:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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I swear the teaching profession draws in the strangest people, and that is putting it nicely.


11 posted on 08/15/2022 12:32:42 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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When Florida Woman wants pickles, you had better not get between her and her pickles!

Wait, was ice cream involved? Pickles and ice cream... Was she pregnant?

12 posted on 08/15/2022 12:33:08 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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Another stupid ass “educator” lol


13 posted on 08/15/2022 12:33:38 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

According to the Daily Mail she’s 63.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10589977/Florida-teacher-suspended-BIT-two-students-argument-jar-pickles.html


14 posted on 08/15/2022 12:36:36 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: CatHerd

i am still waiting on the update from the guy who acted like Florida man when he knocked over his mother’s casket, broke a water main, and knocked over grave markers in a dispute out in richmond, CA

Someone even took a cane to him to try to get it to stop. one mourner brought a stun gun in case something happened


15 posted on 08/15/2022 12:37:05 PM PDT by RummyChick
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Sweet or dill?


16 posted on 08/15/2022 12:37:34 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: V_TWIN

That and the candy sales done by various school clubs trying to raise money.


17 posted on 08/15/2022 12:37:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: frank ballenger

It is serious. Look up microbiome. Everybody is a walking Petri dish.


18 posted on 08/15/2022 12:39:30 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: CatHerd
What’s wrong with “teacher”?

My dad told me it was a union thing. The idea was that to elevate the profession (and make room for higher dues), the union apes thought "EH-jiew-kay-tor" sounded more elevated than the term then (and still) in use, which is pronounced "TEE-chuh."

(Pssst! TEE-chuh's comin'!)

19 posted on 08/15/2022 12:39:33 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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20 posted on 08/15/2022 12:41:18 PM PDT by Songcraft
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