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A 16-year-old girl is accused of pushing a teacher down a set of bleachers during a pep rally earlier this month at Dieruff High School in Allentown, Pa.
The Lehigh County District Attorney said the girl is facing a felony count of aggravated assault for the incident on Nov. 6.
Sophomore Abdel Rodriguez says his English teacher, Mary Matzo, has been out all week after the incident at last week's pep rally.
"I was upset because Ms. Matzo's such a nice teacher. I don't know why someone pushed her down the stairs for no reason," he said.
This is absolutely disgusting. And in going to the link, it seems that the school administrators are about as much as the student to blame for letting violence get to that point. (Again, according to the link, this kind of violence was NOT a one-time incident; in fact, it seems like there is a culture of violence at that school.)
The article mentions the accused student might get a suspension for the rest of the school year.
A "suspension"???
I suggest an entire year in a juvenile detention facility and permanently restricted from ever entering that school again.
And may not even get that. Don't forget the DOJ letters that went out to schools over the summer about too many suspensions for minority students. That's discrimination.
Exactly. As evidenced by how their loopy, lax, policies encourage this behavior, which is then punished by [gasp!] suspending (wow!) the student. That'll teach her.
How sad that teachers have to endure these thugs, then listen to students say that the assaulted teacher should get her justice, too. I hope that teacher gets the hell out of that school district, and finds a teaching job where she's appreciated, and doesn't have to endure combat duty.
Listen dude, how do you know the teacher wasn't a liberal and the contemptible little brat wasn't a flaming conservative bigot? Huh?
Before moving to Philadelphia I lived in Easton - very close to Allentown and Bethlehem. It is likely the teacher was Jewish (Matzo is a Jewish name).
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) the student. That'll teach her.
