Hulking 280-pound student beats elderly teacher to the ground – with instructor claiming school refused to arrest unruly ‘man child’

nypost.com ^ | February 28, 2024 | Selim Algar

[lowbridge]

Adding to the shocking spate of school violence across the nation, a 74-year-old Indiana substitute teacher claims he suffered a gruesome black eye from a teen — and teachers stopped him being arrested.

Shellshocked Rob Gooding, of Indianapolis, told News 8 he was serving as a substitute at Perry Meridian High School on February 1 when an unruly student suddenly approached him during a business class.

The hulking teen — who Gooding claims stood over 6 feet — raised his Chromebook and was poised to crash it down on his head.

“I saw him come up, and he said, ‘I’ve had it,’ and he came down and I blocked the Chromebook. That’s where the hole was,” Gooding said, pointing to a wound on his forearm.

“This man child was 6-feet-2, 280 pounds,” he said.

But the student then shoved the elderly instructor to the ground in front of shocked students and rained down punches on his head.

“He hovered over me and with his left hand whammed me,” Gooding told the station.

Paramedics rushed to the scene and found the dazed teacher suffering from a grisly knot on his forehead and a deep black eye.

Gooding told a school resource officer who arrived with the emergency crews he wanted his assailant arrested and prosecuted.

But the officer told him school administrators forbade him from doing so.

“Then he said to me, ‘We have been instructed by the higher-ups, which is the district, not to handcuff, or arrest the kid,’ and I said, ‘What?’ and he said, ‘Yes, that came from the higher-ups,’” Gooding said.

[Jane Long]

Mr Gooding ...

FTA ....

Gooding told a school resource officer who arrived with the emergency crews he wanted his assailant arrested and prosecuted.

But the officer told him school administrators forbade him from doing so.

“Then he said to me, ‘We have been instructed by the higher-ups, which is the district, not to handcuff, or arrest the kid,’ and I said, ‘What?’ and he said, ‘Yes, that came from the higher-ups,’” Gooding said.

School officials told News 8 that they were unable to comment on what, if any, disciplinary measures were taken against the teen.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I do not see when he cannot have assault charges filed as the victim. Why does he need the school system’s permission?

WTH is the matter with people? His age is not excuse. I’m 72 and I am not a moron. Regardless of what my liberal in laws think.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Depends on where. Not all are scare cats.

[DiogenesLamp]

Try not to let primitive impulses cloud your ability to be rational.

When you see round hoof prints it's usually a horse, not a Zebra.

Expecting a Horse instead of a Zebra is a very rational thing to do.

[Midwesterner53]

Lawsuits against the school system, police department, city or county that owns the police department and the thug’s parents.

[Bullish]

DEI in action?

[packagingguy]

Coulter’s Law

[DiogenesLamp]

I will never forget those women and I will never forgive them.

And they need to be publicly boxed in the mouth and called out as liars for their deliberate support of a lie.

ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR, all need to have their studios taken over, their personnel dragged out in front of the cameras, and the nation needs a live broadcast of all these liars being forced to confront the lies they've told over the years.

The Nation needs to rise up against these media liars. People have been hurt and killed as a result of these media liars. Joe Biden was "elected" because of these liars.

These liars are the nation's primary enemy, and *WE* all need to start talking about them like they are *THE* enemy.

[Bullish]

Mandate all teachers must carry...

Have you looked into the moral and ethical quality of the "teachers" they're hiring these days. You could only trust about 10% of them with guns.

[Chode]

???

it said the SCHOOL refused to arrest it, so goto the State Police

[Dr. Franklin]

The only good reason to have cops in the schools is to deal with this kind of stuff. If the cop won’t charge kids for violence against teachers and school staff, why are they there? If a shooter enters the school, this cop will be cowering outside until the shooter runs out of ammo killing people. This cop is useless.

[Bullish]

...'Yes, that came from the higher-ups]',

Me thinks the 'higher ups' are of the same melanin quantity as the perp here.

[Pox]

I never stated the teachers had to be current employees or any libtard who shouldn't be near a weapon at all, much less children! :)

[Bullish]

The communist MSM is as deadly toxic as any other enemy we face. Too few people realize the danger to our future that they are.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Oops. I have law in my family, so naturally I acted stupidly. Sorry.

[monkeyshine]

Why do the ‘higher ups’ have any say in this? If I was assaulted in the public library and the librarian said “don’t arrest the assailant” I couldn’t press charges?

Or maybe they will pick the kid up on assault outside the school grounds later?

[ClarityGuy]

When Trump is back in the White House and the treason tribunal is convened, I want the military to seize the broadcast tv stations and shut down all broadcasting except for the trials, the background information, and the executions of the guilty, for several weeks at least, until the tribunals are concluded.

[Chode]

no worries...

[03A3]

Perry Meridian School is majority black

How do you know it is majority black?

[Fresh Wind]

When I was in 5th grade, I witnessed a “hulking student” try to stab an elderly teacher with a pencil, so this kind of behavior is nothing new.