Teacher beats mother with chair in front of kids

[soulwinner]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...t_teacher_fight MACON, Georgia - A teacher-parent brawl in front of 19 primary school pupils sent a mother to the emergency room and the teacher to jail.

Teacher Katrina Ann Rucker, 30, is charged with battery and cruelty to children for allegedly beating a parent who tried to retrieve her daughter's book bag, The Macon Telegraph newspaper reported Friday.

According to police interviews, parent Lurella Amica went to Bruce-Weir Elementary School Thursday morning to deliver a note to her 9-year-old daughter.

At the classroom door, the girl told her mother that Rucker had thrown her bag in the trash can, the report stated. Amica entered the classroom and tried to get the book bag, but Rucker grabbed for it and the two struggled, the report said.

After Amica wrestled the bag away, police say Rucker picked up a chair and hit her in the back, knocking Amica to the floor. Rucker then began punching Amica in the face and body.

During the fight, the girl was reportedly crying for her teacher to stop hitting her mother and ran up to them. Rucker then allegedly hit the child, pulled her hair and pushed her out of the way before starting to strike the mother again.

Rucker dragged Amica by the hair outside the classroom, according to the report.

"A school administrator and another teacher had to pull the teacher off the mother," Macon police spokeswoman Melanie Hofmann said.

In Rucker's account of the story, she said Amica hit her hand during the initial struggle, Hofmann said.

"The teacher said she was defending herself because she gets a shot in that hand and it hurt," Hofmann said.

Amica was in stable condition in the emergency room of The Medical Center of Central Georgia late Thursday night.

Rucker was placed on administrative leave.

Sylvia McGee, Bibb County's deputy superintendent, said school staff called the parent or guardian of each child in the class. Social workers counseled students, and only Amica's daughter left school early.

Principal Karen Konke sent letters to parents about the incident.

"Let me assure you the school is safe and that our students have been involved in appropriate instructional activities throughout the day," Konke wrote.

[Born Again]

The more I read about this wonderful world we live in, the more I reconsider about having a baby one day

[soulwinner]

I have two boys ages 19 months and 6 months. Even though we live in a wicked society, I believe we should still raise up kids for the glory of God. If any one is going to make any impact on this sin ridden world and be a light to the world it will be our next generation. Although it's tough in today's day and age through Christ all things are still possible. It has ben such a huge blessing raising my two boys!

Edited October 24, 2004 by soulwinner

[ted]

The more I read about this wonderful world we live in, the more I reconsider about having a baby one day 

Don't do it!!

They never leave!

t.

[Born Again]

The more I read about this wonderful world we live in, the more I reconsider about having a baby one day

[papasangel]

Another great reason to homeschool your children.

Seriously folks watch this closely. The school will side with the teacher saying that its all the parent's fault (no matter what the real facts are).

My questions are :

1. Why did the teacher throw the child's bookbag into the garbage can in the first place?

2. Why did the teacher have to hit the child?

3. Where is the nearest tree for a lynching?

If that teacher is allowed to teach again in any school then question three would come into play.

[ted]

I'm trying to think of just what would happen to a teacher if they ever did something like this to my son or me.

Be humble, ted, be humble.....

t.

[other one]

I've seen a parent or two that I would have liked to do that to. (Wife teaches not me). There are many sides to most stories and we should not condemn anyone too bad without having all sides to the story. Several things seemed to happen here that don't really add up.

[yukon]

When I was in high school several years ago, I remember a boy in my German class that hit the teacher with a chair then pulled a gun on her. He had a mental problem.

Of course where I live now dosn't have problems like that.

Yukon

[alecia]

When you hit somone in the BACK with a chair and then try to pummel them into oblivion, its NOT self defense, no matter how 'sore here hand was.' Theres no excuse for it, no matter what this parent did, if she even did anything at all.

To be hit in the back with a chair would have to mean she was facing AWAY from the teacher, that was rage, revenge, assault, anything but self defense.