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When a deputy asked one juvenile to leave several times, the teenager refused and hit the deputy, the release said.

I teach in an inner city high school in Miami Dade County and I have for about 14 years. Destiny McNeil is exactly the demographic I face every day. A couple of years ago a teacher in my school was jumped outside his classroom and his jaw broken in three places. He never returned to the system and he was a great teacher. If they'll attack an armed police officer, what do you think they'll do to a teacher? They have no respect for any sort of authority. None. By "they" I'm not referring to the good kids, the ones who want to learn and graduate and get into college. I'm referring to the animals who come to school so they can prey on others and victimize teachers, knowing they'll never be properly punished by a liberal school system. It sickens me. Thank the Lord, I'm edging closer and closer to retirement before I take one of them out. That's the main reason I'm untouched. I always show my kids at the start of the year a slide presentation combined with movies of me in the army from long ago as well as recent stuff of me competing in IDPA matches and my Aikido training classes. Most of 'em just don't like the odds when they see 'em. After the last attack my kids all asked me if I was now "afraid to come to work?" To which I replied thusly in a sad and tired tone: "Look, I'm too young to die and too old to take an A$$ whuppin' so .... I'm just gonna KILL ya!" Their eyes were the size of dinner plates and one whispered: "Yeah, we sorts thought you'd say that." And that's all. But I think I've done my time in the 'Hood. I need to get out before it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.