Teacher Called The ‘N Word’ Allegedly Throws Middle Schooler To The Ground [Video]

A Phoenix substitute teacher is accused of assaulting a student after the student hurled the “N Word” at him.

The unsocial incident which of course was caught on cellphone video (see embedded news footage below) happened in an eighth grade social studies class at the Bernard Black Elementary School, which is part of the city’s Roosevelt School District.

It has yet to be established what actually prompted the scuffle in the first place.

According to Fox 10 Phoenix, however, the youngster admitted using the racial slur against the teacher.

Irrespective of the offensive language, his mom wants cops to arrest the teacher involved in the confrontation, and apparently a probe into the incident is underway. “I don’t care what words come out of a child’s mouth, no one should ever put their hands on a child like that…He’s 13, and 13-year-old kids don’t make good decisions sometimes, but an adult that is 6’5?, a teacher that is big and stocky standing over a child who is chest bumping him,” said Esther Delfuente.

In a statement, the Roosevelt School District explained that “We take very seriously the safety and security of our students. We are working and cooperating with the ongoing investigation that the Phoenix Police Department is conducting.” Officials added that the substitute teacher, identified by some media outlets as Brett Russell, has been removed from the middle school pending the investigation.

The causes differ, but this is unfortunately hardly the only teacher-student violent altercation that found its way to social media, although the student is often the aggressor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZmV83ORzJs

For example, in April 2013, a female teacher and a female student in California got into a brawl after the teacher confiscated the 15-year-old’s cosmetics and phone. In Oakland that same month, a male substitute teacher and a female eighth grader got into a punching-and-kicking brawl in an Alliance Academy classroom.

Elsewhere in the Golden State, a high school science teacher got into a wrestling match about a year ago with a student who allegedly brought drugs to the classroom. Last May, a Houston high school student was arrested on a charge of injury to the elderly after allegedly pushing a substitute teacher to the floor and retrieving his confiscated cell phone.

In May 2014, a Detroit teacher who used a broom in an attempt to break up a violent altercation between two male students at Pershing High School was fired for alleged child abuse.

[image credit: Bernard Black Elementary School]