Teacher beats up parent in front of students

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2004-10-24 07:44pm

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story. ... tm&sc=1120

Teacher Jailed After Brawl With Parent

MACON, Georgia (AP) - 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.

All I can say is

WHAT THE HELL?

Even if the mother hit the teachers hand out of the way, this is just insane!!!

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-10-24 07:50pm

Before anybody else says the obvious...

Yes. Georgia. This is a fucked up state. I've lived here all my life. I know.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-10-24 07:52pm

Oh look, Georgia, the bastion of civility in the US.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-10-24 08:30pm

Why the fuck did the bitch throw the kid's bag into the trash?

Fire Fly · Post by **Fire Fly** » 2004-10-24 08:42pm

She gets a shot in the hand and it hurts? Apparently, it didn't hurt her when she began to punch the mother until she was a lifeless pulp. Can her sorry ass, damn it. Based on what is given, there was absolutely no reason to have gone that far, even if it was a slap on the hand.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2004-10-24 09:01pm

Given the way she acted, and her lousy ass excuse. Unless something else comes to light, I say can the bitch.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-10-24 09:06pm

``Let me assure you the school is safe and that our students have been involved in appropriate instructional activities throughout the day,'' Konke wrote.

1. WTF? Where are your priorities?

2. We HAVE to be missing something, here. Why did the teacher throw the kid's bag in the trash? How did the two manage to get into a brawl over a fucking book bag? What exactly was so offensive about the thing? Did it have a Kerry-Edwards sticker on it, or something?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-10-24 09:15pm

The teacher's excuse is so flimsy and so completely devoid of justification for this action (not to mention the fact that other teachers had to pull this psychopath off her victim) that it's quite clear she should go to prison for assault and be barred from teaching for life. Not to mention hitting the child; that's two counts of assault, one against a minor.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-10-24 11:09pm

Darth Wong wrote:The teacher's excuse is so flimsy and so completely devoid of justification for this action (not to mention the fact that other teachers had to pull this psychopath off her victim) that it's quite clear she should go to prison for assault and be barred from teaching for life. Not to mention hitting the child; that's two counts of assault, one against a minor.

What was her excuse? The other woman took a fucking book bag out of the trash?

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-10-24 11:14pm

I'm sorry; I can't help but laugh at the whole thing. I live in one fucked-up country.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-10-24 11:42pm

I did a search to try and find some reason for the entire thing starting, that of Rucker's throwing the bag in the trash. Nothing so far.

Melkor · Post by **Melkor** » 2004-10-24 11:53pm

StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:I'm sorry; I can't help but laugh at the whole thing. I live in one fucked-up country.

It'd probably be more accurate if you changed country to world.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-10-25 12:06am

If a teacher hit my wife or child I'd have a hard time controlling myself and not smashing said teacher to a pulp. WTF is wrong with the teacher. Why would she even try to prevent the parent from getting the bag back? Even assuming the kid took a crap in the bag?

I agree this teacher should be banned from teaching for life and go to jail for assault. She hit the parent with a chair, can't that be counted as a deadly weapon?

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2004-10-25 12:26am

Master of Ossus wrote:2. We HAVE to be missing something, here. Why did the teacher throw the kid's bag in the trash? How did the two manage to get into a brawl over a fucking book bag? What exactly was so offensive about the thing? Did it have a Kerry-Edwards sticker on it, or something?

The only thing I can think of other than politics would be religion.

Brian

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-10-25 01:19am

Um, wow..... just wow....

*is speechless*

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2004-10-25 01:58am

brianeyci wrote:
The only thing I can think of other than politics would be religion.

Brian

Maybe the kid had a copy of a Harry Potter novel in her backpack.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-10-25 02:29am

In a related note, today we have a teachers strike for an hour, because some kid was RUDE to a teacher, the entire education system is going down for an hour because of RUDENESSS.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-10-25 02:31am

brianeyci wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:2. We HAVE to be missing something, here. Why did the teacher throw the kid's bag in the trash? How did the two manage to get into a brawl over a fucking book bag? What exactly was so offensive about the thing? Did it have a Kerry-Edwards sticker on it, or something?
The only thing I can think of other than politics would be religion.

Brian

I can't think of any religion with an injunction against backpacks.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2004-10-25 02:31am

Ace Pace wrote:In a related note, today we have a teachers strike for an hour, because some kid was RUDE to a teacher, the entire education system is going down for an hour because of RUDENESSS.

PLEASE tell me you're joking...

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-10-25 02:35am

Captain_Cyran wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:In a related note, today we have a teachers strike for an hour, because some kid was RUDE to a teacher, the entire education system is going down for an hour because of RUDENESSS.
PLEASE tell me you're joking...

Why else would I be posting at 8:35AM?

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-25 04:27am

so when will we have the first columbine with a teacher as main actor?

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2004-10-25 04:44am

The only reason something like this would be excusable would be if there was about a pound of cocaine in the bag that the mother wanted back.

Since we haven't heard anything like that, it seems pretty likely that wasn't the case. She's in deep shit.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2004-10-25 08:56am

I'd be veeeery interested to find out the history of that classroom...and given how hard it is to get a school teacher in trouble for /anything/, I don't mean the /official/ history.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2004-10-25 06:16pm

Ace Pace wrote:In a related note, today we have a teachers strike for an hour, because some kid was RUDE to a teacher, the entire education system is going down for an hour because of RUDENESSS.

What kind of rudeness, specifically? I have heard of students who can make teachers cry or fear for their safety. I knew one student who pretended to vigorously hump/anally violate teachers when they turned around. He was caught in the act by one teacher and she felt more threatened than aything, but also humiliated and insulted. The student had to be expelled for her to be able to go on teaching.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2004-10-25 06:19pm

salm wrote:so when will we have the first columbine with a teacher as main actor?

Japan has had that many times.

At Berkeley, I knew a guy who was in a Japanese elementary school (he was a student then) when his teacher brought out a couple of beakers full of acid and threw it at the children. This guy is completely blind now, unable to speak properly, and his face is a discolored mass of scar tissue.
Until I heard his story, I just assumed that he had been napalmed in Vietnam or something, that's how bad the damage was.

So, yeah, there have been crazy teacher rampages.