Teacher resigns after (ordering) girl tossed out window

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 4.23.04

[mhking]

A teacher at a Newton County school has resigned after officials say she admitted she told two students to throw a 14-year-old girl from a classroom window.

The teacher, a 63-year-old Conyers resident, was not immediately arrested after the Monday incident, which took place at Sharp Learning Center. But the Newton County Sheriff's Office is investigating.

The student, whose name was not released, was taken to Newton General Hospital on Tuesday night for neck pains and cuts to her body, said Newton County Sheriff's Office investigator Marty Roberts.

According to an incident report by resource officer Brian Chiappetta, the incident took place in the morning during second period. The students were in class when the teacher took a photograph of some of the students, the report said. When the girl asked why the teacher had taken her picture, the teacher allegedly responded with a disparaging remark about the girl's appearance.

The girl became upset and began to use profanity and hit the office assist button on the classroom wall, the incident report said. The teacher then allegedly told two 14-year-old boys to pick up the girl and throw her out the window.

The two boys later told principal Kenneth Daniels that they threw the girl out the window because they did not want to be written up for disobeying a teacher.

The teacher resigned Wednesday, Roberts said.

Roberts said he has been told that the school board will leave it up to the girl's parents to pursue criminal charges against the teacher. But he said his investigation is ongoing.

"I've had incidents involving schools, but I've never heard of such a thing where the teacher instructs students like this," Roberts said.

[CatoRenasci]

What the He** is teacher doing taking a student's photograph without permission, and, when asked about it, responded with disparaging remarks about the girl's appearance?

The student's outrage is perfectly understandable and appropriate, IMHO. Perhaps she should have remonstrated without profanity, but this is clearly an incident provoked by the teacher. And, then, telling boys to defenestrate the girl was over the top. That's assault and battery, and the boys and the teacher should do some serious jail time for it.

[atomic conspiracy]

When I was substitute teaching years ago, an irate student picked up a desk and tossed it out a second-floor window.
I calmly looked out to make sure it hadn't hit anyone, then called the office and went on with the class. The city police arrived a few minutes later, handcuffed the miscreant and hauled him out of class. He couldn't believe he was actually being arrested but he had celebrated his eighteenth birthday just one day earlier and was now subject to the same treatment as (other) adult criminals.

[Flipyaforreal]

LOL! True, did you see this article via Drudge?? Too much, lol!

"Boy, 12, Accused Of Threatening Allergic Teacher With Cookie"

[AlbertWang]

Try this one:

"The flood last night defenstrated the whole farm. We got cows spread plumb from Miami to Baxter"

[shadowman99]

How far did the girl fall? 5 feet? 50? 100?

[Conservomax]

Learning Center = A**hole kids being taught by A**hole teachers.

Evidence:

They have something called an "office assist" button.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The two boys later told principal Kenneth Daniels that they threw the girl out the window because they did not want to be written up for disobeying a teacher.

This statement, more than the teacher's meltdown, tells me there is something really wrong at the Sharp Learning Center in Newton County.

[Skooz]

My wife is a school teacher.

She is my hero.

I am in awe of anyone who can spend day after day with the hateful little monsters and not throw 40% of them out a window over the course of a year.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

But was this "defenestration" or "exfenestration"?

[Dallas59]

I'm really starting to feel sorry for my own country in this day and age.

Some things are not getting better.

[myrabach]

I substitute taught middle and high school... I got out of it before I did the same... I don't condone the action BUT I fully understand WHY!

[bmwcyle]

It is not so bad dealing with the children but when you do something legal to their children and the parents come crying.

[Larry Lucido]

JERRY: What's with you?

KRAMER: He jumped.

JERRY: What?

KRAMER: Yeah. Newman jumped.

JERRY: Did he call you last night?

KRAMER: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

JERRY: What did you say?

KRAMER: I said " Wave to me when you pass my window."

JERRY: Whew. Did he wave?

KRAMER: No! He jumped from the second floor. Mr. Papanickolous saw him from

across the street. He's lying out there faking.

[Mo1]

The two boys later told principal Kenneth Daniels that they threw the girl out the window because they did not want to be written up for disobeying a teacher.

This is a public school right??

I'm not siding with the teacher ... but I get the feeling there's more to this story

[P-Marlowe]

These kids show no respect for authority, but when they push a teacher beyond the breaking point, their parents stand at the ready to sue the pants off the school and to destroy the career of the teacher.

And people wonder what has happened to our education system.

[steplock]

"What the He** is teacher doing taking a student's photograph without permission, and, when asked about it, responded with disparaging remarks about the girl's appearance?"


She was probably dressed like a slut, smelled like she just got out from a pig sty and spouted a mouth full of vile profanities.

I probably would have thrown her out myself if she didn't leave the classroom immediately.

As far as "privacy" - since when can't a person take a picture? The next thing LIBERALS will cry about is that someone actually looked disparigingly at someone else - and then called that HATE speech.,

THink at what you said, and then try to think back to what you would have said 20-30 years ago ... you now sound like a leftist radical.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This story just cries out for a limerick using defenestrate, but I've got to go to work now.

It does...and I don't:

There once was a teacher named Grayson.
She yearned for a disciplinary demonstration.
When a lass poorly clad,
Spake invectives so bad,
Grayson resonded with a defenestration.

[not2worry]

Could have been the basement!