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Pair of 19-year-old Florida HS students accused of brutally beating up teacher in 'synchronized physical attack'
The Blaze ^ | 3/20/25 | Dave Urbanski

Posted on 03/20/2025 11:34:10 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Police said the teacher, after being repeatedly punched in the face and head, ended up on the ground 'in a fetal position attempting to guard himself against injury.' Two 19-year-old Florida high school students are accused of brutally beating up a teacher in what police called a "synchronized physical attack" that was captured on video.

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department told ABC News that Jayvis L. McClover and Roddrick McQueen approached the teacher at Dillard High School around 2 p.m. March 13 and were "verbally threatening to attack him."

One student told WPLG in the video that the teacher had been 'arguing with students' and that 'he cursed them out and said, "I'm gonna fight you after school."'

Police said McClover and McQueen — who are both enrolled at the school — then "intentionally launched a synchronized physical attack" on the teacher and "repeatedly punched the teacher in the face and head with closed fists," after which the teacher fell to the ground, the news network reported.

Police said the students continued to punch the teacher while he was on the ground "in a fetal position attempting to guard himself against injury," ABC News noted.

School security staff pulled the two students away from the teacher, who suffered "swelling and bruising and reported pain in his back as a result of the attack," the news network said.

McClover and McQueen both were charged with battery on a public or private education employee, police told ABC News.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office on Thursday told Blaze News that McClover was released from jail March 14 on a $15,000 bond while McQueen was released from jail March 16 with no bond but with electronic monitoring. WPLG-TV added that McQueen was placed on house arrest with a GPS monitor.

Both McClover and McQueen were ordered not to return to the high school, ABC News said, citing court records.

You can view a video report here about the incident; it includes cellphone clips of the beatdown and notes that the educator in question is a substitute teacher.

The video also features on-camera interviews with five individuals — apparently students at the school — who either smiled or laughed when describing the altercation. Some of them accused the teacher of "provoking" the two arrested students.

One student told WPLG in the video that the teacher had been "arguing with students" and that "he cursed them out and said, 'I'm gonna fight you after school.'"

The video report added that school officials are reviewing the entire incident as well as "the actions of the teacher."

Daniel Foganholi Sr., a board member with the Florida Department of Education, said in a statement that the incident was a "failure of respect, discipline and accountability," ABC News reported.

"No educator should fear for their safety while doing their job," Foganholi said, according to the news network. "Schools must be places of learning, not battlegrounds."

He emphasized the need for "stronger disciplinary policies, better security measures and a culture that respects and protects our teachers," ABC News said.

"If we fail to act, we fail our educators, our students, and our future," Foganholi also said, according to the news network. "Enough is enough


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: assault; browardcounty; donate2freerepublic; education; fightingirish; florida; itsalwaysthem; violence
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Tell me again why we need a Dept of Education?🤬🤬 Supposedly the teacher may have instigated this, we'll see how the investigation plays out. The same school district where the Parkland shootings look place. Maybe David Hogg could stage massive protests demanding COMMON SENSE FIST CONTROL?🤡
To say this district has a disciplinary problem is an understatement.
1 posted on 03/20/2025 11:34:10 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

“...that Jayvis L. McClover and Roddrick McQueen approached the teacher...”

Don’t even have to look.


2 posted on 03/20/2025 11:36:14 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Impala64ssa

A new team sport, like synchronized swimming?


3 posted on 03/20/2025 11:37:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Impala64ssa

Guess who, Boo boo. You don’t even need the names. Knowing they went two-on-one is your first clue. They hunt in packs.


4 posted on 03/20/2025 11:37:46 AM PDT by wizardoz (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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Tell me again why we need a Dept of Education?

Holy crap! Tell me how that fits in with this event?

5 posted on 03/20/2025 11:38:19 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Impala64ssa

19? Were they freshmen?


6 posted on 03/20/2025 11:38:27 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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"wo 19-year-old Florida high school students . . . "

Isn't 19 a little old to still be in high school?
7 posted on 03/20/2025 11:39:58 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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8 posted on 03/20/2025 11:42:53 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: Impala64ssa

19 year olds do not belong in high school. I don’t care if they have not completed the required credits to graduate. Out they go. They can seek alternative means to finish high school if they really want to.


9 posted on 03/20/2025 11:43:24 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Belushi in Animal House:
“Seven years of college down the drain.”

High school takes a long time, too.

Jeff Foxworthy.
Student: “Well, one good thing about my dad being held back in the fifth grade again this year is now we’ll be able to walk to school together.”


10 posted on 03/20/2025 11:43:34 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Impala64ssa

No doubt some fine 19 year old sophomores getting their lives together and trying to become rap stars or NBA hooligans.


11 posted on 03/20/2025 11:43:42 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Impala64ssa

Welp they tricked me on that one. I was thinking it was going to be two wayward Scottish lads.


12 posted on 03/20/2025 11:44:50 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Ken H

No comment.


13 posted on 03/20/2025 11:45:10 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Impala64ssa

I’m probably about to state an unpopular viewpoint, but after reading the article, my sympathy for the teacher went to zero. His mouth wrote a cheque his arse couldn’t cash.


14 posted on 03/20/2025 11:45:18 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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McClover and McQueen....
15 posted on 03/20/2025 11:45:31 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Ken H

“They’re good boys, they would never do anything like that!”, said Grandma, second generation welfare recipient (no fathers in sight…)


16 posted on 03/20/2025 11:46:06 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Islam’s Strategy is Effective: Out-breed and murder everyone else. What to do?)
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To: Impala64ssa

If its not teachers having sex with students, its students beating up teachers.


17 posted on 03/20/2025 11:48:26 AM PDT by PGR88
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McClover and McQueen

Darn Irish.
Where was McLovin?


18 posted on 03/20/2025 11:49:42 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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RE: don’t belong at age 19.

By age 25 they may be at grade level in measured areas.

Forty-Four Percent of Public School Students Began 2023-24 Year Behind Grade Level in at Least One Academic Subject, Principals Say
December 14, 2023
WASHINGTON (December 14, 2023) — Public school leaders nationwide estimated that, on average, 44 percent of their students did not begin the 2023-24 school year at grade level in at least one academic subject, an improvement over the 49 percent reported for the start of the prior school year, according to data released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)


19 posted on 03/20/2025 11:49:56 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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One student told WPLG in the video that the teacher had been 'arguing with students' and that 'he cursed them out and said, "I'm gonna fight you after school."'

Could be a rogue teacher. Could be a lying student.

20 posted on 03/20/2025 11:50:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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