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FL. Jacksonville teacher suspended for not intervening in kindergarten fight

A northeast Florida kindergarten teacher named Rita Baci has been suspended for allegedly making multiple video recordings of a child beating up other children without intervening.

But some believe it’s the education system itself that makes it difficult for teachers to intervene in school fights.

On three separate occasions, the teacher used her smartphone to make a video of a male student hurting others in the class. According to the Florida Times-Union, the videos show the boy smacking another boy “about his face and body several times, kicking another student who was attempting to hide under a table, and punching and slapping a third student.” The kindergarten teacher did not intervene in any of these school fights.

Student attacked on a school bus. Driver may face charges for failure to protect.

For the last two decades, HWC has been arguing that school  administrators and school bus drivers have an ethical and legal duty to  protect every single child on the bus as if they were in the school building. We assert it is the administrator’s duty is to create and supervise a  reasonable effort to observe and identify problems and problem  children before they are allowed on the bus.  Some of these bus incidents  arise spontaneously and without warning.  However, when children telegraph their  intentions (and they almost always do) the adults in charge need to be proactive.

If a child, or group of children in this case, is likely to present  a risk to safety on the bus, either the child’s parents should be responsible  for providing the trip home or the school must provide enough monitors on the  bus to ensure everyone’s security.

A driver should never be put in the position  of driving a bus on our streets with children that the administrators and  faculty know are likely to present a threat to safety, whether it is a special  education student in emotional turmoil or young criminals.

The bus driver’s main priority is to operate the bus safely.  In order of  priorities for the driver: 1) make sure the bus is pulled over and parked  safely, 2) communicate the problem to the police so they can provide backup and  3) intervene when necessary to protect the safety of children on the bus,  provided they have the physical capability and the training to do so.  As you  can see on this video, the driver was faced with multiple assailants.  HWC has a  strategy for clearing the narrow center isle, using a force level that is  appropriate and lawful given the severity of this beating.

Three students are accused of beating a younger student aboard a Pinellas County school bus.

A student exiting the school bus was viciously attacked by three other classmates. The bus driver called for help but did not intervene to protect the student to stop the beating. The student had his arm broken and the driver is being investigated.


WFLA-TV News Channel 8

The youths have already been charged.

Cited reason for the attack? The victim did not want to buy drugs from the attackers and instead turned them into the school. An investigation revealed one of the suspects had tried to sell drugs to the victim in a school bathroom. The victim notified officials at the school. Later that day, the suspects and victim rode the same school bus home.

Officials said the bus driver from Lealman Intermediate School called for help when three students “ganged up” on a 13-year-old student, kicking and punching the victim. Officials said the victim tried to crawl under a seat on the bus as the suspects punched and kicked the victim for roughly a minute, police said.

The victim suffered a fractured arm. Police say one of the suspects, Joshua Reddin took the victim’s money after the beating.

All three teens are charged with aggravated battery. Reddin is also charged with unarmed robbery. All three have been released from police custody.

New York teachers and school safety officers investigated for not intervening in girls’ beating (by other students) at Bronx prep school

Both teachers and school safety officers are being investigated for standing by and not lifting a finger to stop a bloody brawl in the Bronx.

The fight video, taken at Eximius Preparatory Academy, only lasts a minute. But for any parent who sees their child getting kicked, punched and bitten, the chaos that one minute video feels like a lifetime.

“After I seen the video, I was really destroyed,” the victim’s mother, Tjuana Thomas said. “How could they? I could understand if it was a one on one, but it’s like so many kids just pounding away.”

In the video, Thomas’ daughter is seen standing top on a school cafeteria table when another student leaps up and starts pounding on the 15-year-old sophomore.

They both fall to the floor, and that’s when four more girls jump in, kicking and punching.

“One of the boys at my school tried to pull me off of her,” the girl said. “He tried to stop the fight, but she still had my hair.”

Thomas did not want her daughter to be identified. The teen says she’s been bullied by a group of girls since she transferred to the school four months ago.

She says this fight started because she confronted another student who was bullying her by throwing water on her, and then she was surrounded by a group of girls.

“I got on the table because they were coming around me,” she said. “So they won’t hit me.”

One classmate came to her defense, only to catch the most vicious brunt of the beating. That girl tried to hide under a table, but she was savagely dragged out and kicked and punched in the face.

“I feel happy that she helped me,” Thomas’ daughter said. “But I feel bad that they all jumped on her.”

The controversy is heightened by the video, which shows two NYPD school safety officers walk into the room as the fight starts. But they are not seen at any time trying to break it up.

NYPD officials say school safety agents are supposed to intervene during fights and have the power to make arrests. They’re looking into why this may not have happened.

Three girls were arrested on misdemeanor assault, riot and disorderly conduct charges.

Thomas’ daughter was suspended for five days, but says she will not return to the school.

The Department of Education says that the students are being disciplined and that the matter is being investigated.

Thomas’ daughter says that she didn’t report the bullying because she was afraid.

NYC has a policy of not allowing school staff and teachers to intervene even though this is clearly countrary to the right to defend oneself and another.  Lucky for the girl, the cafeteria staff saved the girl from further being beaten.