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Posted on 02/04/2015 8:18:37 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
FRANCISVILLE, La. – A Louisiana teacher is out of a job after police allege she kicked and slapped one of her first grade students last month.
Chanel Lemelle, 31, resigned from her position at Bains Lower Elementary School in St. Francisville last week as investigators looked into allegations she struck a student in the cafeteria during lunch Jan. 23, The Advocate reports.
“She’s very sad that this is going on,” Lemelle’s attorney, Don Cazayoux, told the news site. “She loves teaching, loves her students and would never do anything to hurt any of her children.”
Camera footage of the school’s cafeteria and witness reports, however, tell a different story.
“A sheriff’s deputy who reviewed camera footage of the incident wrote in an arrest report that as the student walked by Lemelle in the school’s cafeteria, she could be seen kicking him in the rear,” according to The Advocate.
“The video also showed her slapping the boy on the back of the head, the deputy wrote.”
Prior to the incident, witnesses said Lemelle yelled at the student “in a loud and degrading manner because he was not walking like he was supposed to,” and held the child back from the lunch line until his classmates received their food, according to the police report.
When the student returned with his lunch, Lemelle allegedly made the child sit by himself, then took some of his food, telling him “he only needed one taco,” the news site reports.
The student recounted the same story when interviewed by Child Advocacy Services, according to the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Lemelle was charged with one count of cruelty to juveniles Monday, immediately posted a $20,000 bail, and was released. She was replaced by a new teacher the same day, superintendent Hollis Milton told The Advocate.
Witnesses told a sheriff’s deputy that it wasn’t the first time Lemelle was inappropriate with students.
They said she often brought an empty plate to lunch and filled it with food from her students. One of the witnesses also allegedly found Lemelle in the hallway about a week ago with the same student she’s charged with abusing. The child was crying and Lemelle was yelling and “waiving a stick at him,” according to the police report.
Lemelle has taught in the district the last 10 years, and is the daughter of a retired federal prosecutor who now operates a private law firm with Cazayoux, The Advocate reports.
Many parents who commented on the story online were clearly not impressed with Lemelle’s alleged conduct.
“If I was that child’s mother, you’d have to hold me back. The camera doesn’t lie!” Dee Murphy posted to Facebook. “Let’s hope the child gets counseling and justice is rightfully served on her (without daddy’s wrongful intervention)! Makes me sick!!!”
“She’s lucky she wasn’t my child!” Stan Smith wrote.
Other parents in the district allege school officials have a history of tacitly condoning bullying behavior.
“I know what my child has experienced within this school district,” Michelle A. Gaines posted. “My child was belittled by a teacher in front of a whole classroom full of kids, he was verbally assaulted by a student, and knocked down all in the presence of a teacher. Nothing was done. I have gone to the school several times …”
“This school system is horrible and they cover up so much wrong doing. I feel sorry for other parents who have had the same issues and pulled their kids from this school district. I have recently pulled my child,” she wrote.
Superintendent Milton, meanwhile, contends Lemelle’s abuse allegations are in contrast to “the positive, warm culture that children experience every day” at the school, according to The Advocate.
“At the end of the day, it’s still a wonderful school,” he said.
maybe she was taking her reparations from the white kids?
“there are far too many black women out there who jump up on counters at Burger King and throw a Simian Hissy Fit”
Yeah, I don’t think the ones jumping on counters at Burger King are the same ones whose parents are Federal Prosecutors. You’re painting with a mighty broad brush there.
Chanel dear:
-Pot meet kettle.
-People in double chins should not throw stones.
-Pluck the twinkie out of your own mouth before you try to pluck one from a first grader.
Just for a start. :)
the article says she would take an empty plate and fill it from the kids plates
Does the left have a Warm & Fuzzy Czar in charge of writing these statements?
Breeding and family are not immune to impropriety, period. Broad brushes aside, explain how so many children of famous and upright parents end up on scandal TV because of their children.
My point is that parents’ jobs or careers don’t mean crap. It is culture and peer influence and media. In this case the BK Have it Your Way snit are the norm.
Well, either you think that people who make the salary of a federal prosecutor raise their kids in the ghetto, or you think that all black people have a ghetto mentality, no matter where they were raised.
Either way, I think you’re wrong.
The top black elected Democrats, many top black athletes and celebrities all seem to think than being a crook and being black are synonymous.
She wraps up the entire democrat platform perfectly. Gibs me dat.
yep. The embodiment of the Democrat Party
This is why we don’t want ‘teachers’ being allowed to spank children. The quality of teachers we have today ‘ain’t’ what it used to be....
Keep thinking your line. It will fail you eventually.
” would never do anything to hurt any of her children”
I’m betting she was gettin’ some reparations.
I would bet a bunch that that was the case.
Much’ell made her do it.Just following the masters marching orders
Please do, that was frightening!
I sense an entitlement mentality coupled with a “YT dun me wrong” chip on her shoulder
and taking it out on a first grader.
She’s just a bully through and through.
And she looks so nice in her picture.
She should get down on her knees and thank the Good Lord that was not my child she slapped.
Looks to me if she got on her knees there would be no getting up
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