Posted on 10/23/2004 7:34:49 PM PDT by Husker24
MACON, Georgia - A teacher-parent brawl in front of 19 primary school pupils sent a mother to the emergency room and the teacher to jail.
Teacher Katrina Ann Rucker, 30, is charged with battery and cruelty to children for allegedly beating a parent who tried to retrieve her daughter's book bag, The Macon Telegraph newspaper reported Friday.
According to police interviews, parent Lurella Amica went to Bruce-Weir Elementary School Thursday morning to deliver a note to her 9-year-old daughter.
At the classroom door, the girl told her mother that Rucker had thrown her bag in the trash can, the report stated. Amica entered the classroom and tried to get the book bag, but Rucker grabbed for it and the two struggled, the report said.
After Amica wrestled the bag away, police say Rucker picked up a chair and hit her in the back, knocking Amica to the floor. Rucker then began punching Amica in the face and body.
During the fight, the girl was reportedly crying for her teacher to stop hitting her mother and ran up to them. Rucker then allegedly hit the child, pulled her hair and pushed her out of the way before starting to strike the mother again.
Rucker dragged Amica by the hair outside the classroom, according to the report.
"A school administrator and another teacher had to pull the teacher off the mother," Macon police spokeswoman Melanie Hofmann said.
In Rucker's account of the story, she said Amica hit her hand during the initial struggle, Hofmann said.
"The teacher said she was defending herself because she gets a shot in that hand and it hurt," Hofmann said.
Amica was in stable condition in the emergency room of The Medical Center of Central Georgia late Thursday night.
Rucker was placed on administrative leave.
Sylvia McGee, Bibb County's deputy superintendent, said school staff called the parent or guardian of each child in the class. Social workers counseled students, and only Amica's daughter left school early.
Principal Karen Konke sent letters to parents about the incident.
"Let me assure you the school is safe and that our students have been involved in appropriate instructional activities throughout the day," Konke wrote.
I was told that I couldn't teach in a public school because I didn't have required background. I asked the principal what she meant because I had a higher degree than 85% of the faculty. I guess I didn't go through the required indoctrination classes
If you think that there are required indoctrination classes that we teachers have to take, then you probably shouldn't teach. There's nothing of the sort, but some of the liberal propagandists do like people to believe that.
So, I guess you're the "guide on the side," not the "sage on the stage."
For the life of me, I can't understand why students have to sit at tables in little groups "and socially construct knowledge" with one another. What a load of BS. The little twerps are generally too ignorant of the subject to "construct knowledge."
The teacher should be up in front of the classroom actually teaching IMHO. The kids can look straight ahead at him/her without getting cricks in their necks too.
I can understand why there are so many disciplinary problems in the public schools today. They sound like madhouses.
Today's public schools are set up for failure.
See post #10. Lefty media looking out for lefty teachers.
I am right-handed.
Horse crap, she will be fired and it won't be long.
This is not just an anti-Republican thing. I have friends with Kerry stickers who have had the stickers trashed and keyed. There is intolerance on both sides.
I'm sorry, Cherry, I didn't realize we were in a My Life Is Worse Than Your Life contest.
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