Video shows Texas high school student using racially offensive language and strikes teacher, mom blames the school for not labeling her daughter as ‘special needs’
A Texas mother of high school student seen in a video assaulting and yelling at a Black teacher, now claims autism and a bipolar condition is to blame for daughter’s behavior. During a interview with WFAA 8, Brittany Evans told the news station she was “upset for the teacher” and “upset for her even being in that situation.” The video was recorded and uploaded by a Twitter user that has since went viral.
Evans said her unidentified daughter, is autistic, bipolar, and battles depression with anxious distress. The mother said she’s been in nearly a dozen meetings to have her child placed into a classroom more suitable for children with special needs, but hasn’t been able to get her moved. “I wish the school would label her correctly so we didn’t have to go through this,” the mother said.
Evans’ daughter, a student at Fort Worth’s Castleberry High School, is seen going up to the front of the classroom and seemingly ending a call being made by an substitute teacher from a landline located at her desk.
The teacher tries to remove the student’s hand from the phone, at that point the student hits the teacher on the arm. The teacher walks around the desk to approach the student and then leaves the classroom.
After the teacher’s leaves, Evans’ daughter then grabbed the phone and appeared to make a call to her mother. Then she made a comment about the teacher’s race.
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