Texas substitute teacher Left bleeding after middle school student throws metal chair at his face
Last week a substitute teacher in a Dallas suburb was injured in an encounter with “several” students in a DeSoto middle school located in Desoto, Texas classroom according to FOX 4. This incident caused school officials to start its spring break immediately, canceling all classes for last Friday.
Several videos and photos have gone viral on social media showing a classroom incident between multiple students and the substitute teacher. The video shows desk chairs being thrown by both students and the teacher at the other. One of the viral photos shows blood streaming down the substitute’s face. DeSoto police said they were aware of the videos circulating on social media and were investigating the incident.
According to a DeSoto ISD representative, the students attacked the teacher first, injuring him to the point that paramedics were called to the scene according to the news station.
The paramedics were able to treat the substitute teacher’s injuries at the school, the DeSoto ISD rep said.
The district didn’t comment on what started the incident.
Police said in a statement they will have “larger police presence… to prevent any further incidents.”
“The safety and security of our children is our top priority,” police said.
In a statement from the school district officials acknowledged that students “may have witnessed and filmed an assault that took place in a classroom on a district campus.”
“The district makes clear that it does not condone or tolerate the behavior that took place in the incident and that all parties will be held accountable to the full extent of the district’s ability to address the matter,” the statement said.
73-year-old Larry Brumfield says the student wasn’t on the roll in his class but had wandered in and refused to leave.
Brumfield says the assistant principal removed the student, but he came back, cursing and throwing a roll of paper towels at him.
“I said, ‘Why did you do that?’, he said, ‘Because I felt like it,’” Brumfield said
“There was profanity involved,” he said. Brumfield said he engaged with the student verbally, something he regrets, however, he didn’t expect a chair to come flying across the room.
“Fortunately I saw it out of my peripheral vision. It hit my leg. My leg and my head. It didn’t hurt as much but I felt the blood on my face,” he said.
According to NBC 5:
“I picked it up and threw it back at him.”
This all took place while students recorded it all on their phones. Larry said about four or five students tried to help him but most gathered with his attacker, laughing and cheering.
The 73-year-old retiree says if DeSoto will have him, he plans to be right back in the classroom after spring break.
“I came up from the ghettos of Gary, Indiana, Chicago. I’m thinking as an idealist, I have some things up here I could share with people that might help them.”
DeSoto ISD made the decision to cancel school Friday, so teachers could meet and come up with stronger discipline plans, something Brumfield says is the absolute right move.
“If the statements they made about a new day and a new sheriff if that’s really going to happen because I wouldn’t mind being a part of that,” he said.
“If they say that and mean it, it was worthwhile. I’ll take a scar on the head for that.”
Brumfield’s daughter told us she begged him to quit, but he said he needed to be in the classroom giving back.
Brumfield told us he retired with enough money to take care of himself, but he works because two grandchildren live with him and he needs the extra money to raise those kids.
He says if he has to work, he thinks being in a school where he can try to give back and help kids get on the right track is where he should be.
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