just damn...
Posted on 04/26/2010 12:40:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A science teacher beat a pupil around the head with a dumbbell while shouting "die, die, die", a court heard.
Peter Harvey, 50, hit the 14-year-old boy with a 3kg weight at All Saints' Roman Catholic School, Mansfield, a jury heard.
He denies attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, but has admitted a charge of GBH.
Nottingham Crown Court was told students were filmed calling Mr Harvey a "psycho" moments before the attack.
Another pupil was filming as Mr Harvey tried to restore discipline.
The injured schoolboy, whom Mr Harvey confronted for misbehaving in class, suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.
Stuart Rafferty QC, prosecuting, said Mr Harvey was sent home from the school in December 2008 after telling an education adviser he might harm somebody.
He returned to the classroom in April 2009.
Mr Harvey was "happy" and "positive" on the morning of the attack, the court heard.
But, after a girl with behavioural difficulties started being disruptive it was alleged he kicked her, Mr Rafferty said.
He added: "She left the classroom in a state of tears and some of the class took exception to the way she had been treated and started calling him a psycho.
"He didn't seem to respond to that and told the class to get on with their work."
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And if he moves to Florida, he’ll be elected to Congress.
>>Stuart Rafferty QC, prosecuting, said Mr Harvey was sent home from the school in December 2008 after telling an education adviser he might harm somebody. <<
I’m so glad I homeschool.
Maybe there’s just a misunderstanding.
And if he moves to Florida, he’ll be elected to Congress.”
Now THAT is funny...and, sadly, so true.
I guess he showed them.
Real nut job.....poor guy hit the wall and lost it!! Really bad story hard to read!!!
I was thinking that, too, but it's probably too large a class size, or too low pay.
But then this is the UK, and public is private and private is public or something like that. Maybe the teach had the wrong class or the kids had the wrong teach. I think I'm getting warm.
Or something like Grievous Harm Of A Body?
I guess he showed them he wasn't crazy.
Student teacher dynamics may be more troubling than we realize.
For the psychologically impaired instructor - being ridiculed by a tribe of taunting young’uns might be a tad traumatic.
Teachers should have periodic psycho evaluations; especially the Marxists, for whom total control is everything;)
GBH = grievous bodily harm
GHB = great highlands bagpipe, which is also grievous bodily harm :-
just damn...
On the bright side, he didn’t sexuality abuse his students. That’s a feather in his cap.
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