Violence Against Students In Class? Teachers Say It Doesn't Add Up [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/4/1512:04 PM

By now, anyone who's wanted to has seen the video that shows a white school policeman violently subduing a 15-year-old black girl in Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C. Most people agree on the general details: The (still unnamed) girl had her cellphone out, which was against the rules. Her teacher asked for it. She refused to give it up. The teacher called the vice principal, who asked for it, and asked her to get up from her seat and leave with him. Nope.

The vice principal then called Senior Deputy Ben Fields to take the girl from the classroom. What happened next has sparked a national debate on race and discipline in public school: Fields (who is white) grabbed the girl by the neck, flipped her while still seated at her desk, then dragged her to the front of the room.

[For more of this story, written by Karen Grigsby Bates, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/co...lassroom-by-white-co]

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