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Teacher Slugs Middle Schooler Who Mocked His Favorite Football Team
Deadspin ^ | 11/14/13 | Samer Kalaf

Posted on 11/15/2013 9:29:59 AM PST by Straight Vermonter

Texas middle school student Reginald Wells was knocked out with a punch to the face by a teacher last Friday after Wells cracked a joke about the teacher's favorite football team.

Wells, who attends Willie Ray Smith Middle School in Beaumont, says he stopped to talk to an assistant teacher from his math class and joked about the teacher's favorite football team, pushing the teacher's shoulder after he said the joke. According to another teacher who was in the hallway, the assistant teacher reacted by punching 12-year-old Wells in the face, knocking him out.

From 12News:

"(The principal) said Reginald was punched, in the shoulder, and then hit two times and uppercut, and then slid across the floor," Adrianne [Wells, Reginald's mother,] said. "It weighed heavy on my heart, because I've never put my hands on my son."
Wells, who is four-foot-eleven and 80 lbs., woke up on the floor seconds later with no recollection of what had happened.

The assistant teacher was fired and escorted from the premises, but not arrested. Before being removed, the assistant teacher told Reginald, "I can't apologize for what I did, I was just having a bad day and I just snapped."

Adrianne Wells says she plans to file charges against the teacher.


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1 posted on 11/15/2013 9:29:59 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter

So which team was it?


2 posted on 11/15/2013 9:31:29 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Attitude adjustment?


3 posted on 11/15/2013 9:32:41 AM PST by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: Straight Vermonter

OH BOy did my fellow Raider fan went crazy on this poor kid LOL!


4 posted on 11/15/2013 9:33:02 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Straight Vermonter

That’ ll learn him!
/sarc
CC


5 posted on 11/15/2013 9:33:28 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Can’t be the Cowboys, the article clearly stated that it was a “Football Team.”


6 posted on 11/15/2013 9:34:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: Bender2

ping...


7 posted on 11/15/2013 9:34:31 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: areukiddingme1

How hard was this teacher’s shoulder pushed after said joke?


8 posted on 11/15/2013 9:35:00 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Straight Vermonter

Sue the principal for not calling the police.

Ridiculous schools sic the cops on kids for pictures of a gun but allow adult to assault a child?


9 posted on 11/15/2013 9:35:15 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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How hard was this teacher’s shoulder pushed after said joke?

How hard could an 80 pound boy push it?

10 posted on 11/15/2013 9:35:44 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter
The assistant teacher was fired and escorted from the premises, but not arrested. Before being removed, the assistant teacher told Reginald, "I can't apologize for what I did, I was just having a bad day and I just snapped."

I have to say that if it was my child and the guy was still on the street, he would soon be feeling his neck snap - and I wouldn't have apologized for "snapping" either.

11 posted on 11/15/2013 9:36:09 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Whenever a teacher does something crazy and irrational, I want to know the story of everything that led up to it before passing judgement.


12 posted on 11/15/2013 9:36:47 AM PST by grania
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To: Straight Vermonter
I can't apologize for what I did, I was just having a bad day and I just snapped.

What a class act. No logic behind this, just personal predjudice, but I got $10 bucks says he's an Eagles fan.

13 posted on 11/15/2013 9:37:55 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Straight Vermonter
Sometimes, a man has to do what a man has to do.


14 posted on 11/15/2013 9:43:16 AM PST by Bratch
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To: dfwgator

(snort!)....................


15 posted on 11/15/2013 9:51:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: hoosierham
Ridiculous schools sic the cops on kids for pictures of a gun but allow adult to assault a child?

Yep. If he molested the kid, the union would have closed ranks to protect him. It's actually happened.

16 posted on 11/15/2013 9:52:53 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: areukiddingme1; dfwgator

He decked the Wells with bouts of folly.......................


17 posted on 11/15/2013 9:53:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Willie Ray Smith Middle School?? Probabvly located on Martin Luther King Blvd.


18 posted on 11/15/2013 9:57:08 AM PST by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
"(The principal) said Reginald was punched, in the shoulder, and then hit two times and uppercut, and then slid across the floor," Adrianne [Wells, Reginald's mother

Yet the headline would seem to indicate a single slug

19 posted on 11/15/2013 9:58:02 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: trebb

but not arrested?

Why not?


20 posted on 11/15/2013 9:58:47 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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