Report: Teacher resigns after video shows child knocked over

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

TIFTON, Ga. (AP) — A south Georgia teacher has resigned after surveillance video appears to show her knocking a special needs student to the ground in a school hallway.

WALB-TV (bit.ly/1pBlbJw) reports that the incident happened at the Tift County Pre-K Center in Tifton on March 17.

The child's mother, Sarah Patterson, tells the station that the teacher thrust her knee into the little boy's back, causing him to fall forward near a classroom door.

Tift County School officials tell WALB that the young boy was not hurt and that the incident has been reported to the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services.

Information from: WMAZ-TV, http://www.wmaz.com/

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/07479fca121f445ea203e6dceb40a25e/report-teacher-resigns-after-video-shows-child-knocked-over

[stonecutter357]

1. How many kids has she bullied?

[marble falls]

2. Do not take this as minimizing the fact the teacher abused that child:

How large are the classes she was leading?

[raging moderate]

3. Not HURT? She thrust her knee into his back! And knocked him down! Would that hurt you?

Just what is going on in Tift County Schools? Or in this woman's head? Yes, it DID get very hard sometimes, working with all those children! Things did get very crazy and sometimes it was hard to think straight! BUT OH, NO, we DID NOT thrust our knees into the kids' backs! Or knock them down! Maybe the poor kid was not INJURED, but you bet your life he was hurt!

[Igel]

4. Honestly, probably not.

Unless we count "my knee hurt for a minute after I tripped and hit the floor."

No, let's assume that the "knee thrust" crushed several vertebrae, and that as a result of hitting the floor the child broke several bones and incurred massive internal injuries.

I can only assume that at no point were you a child and got pushed, shoved, jostled or simply stumbled. "Coddled" is the word that comes to mind, which, to my pathetically small mind (it must be), is actually worse than never having been pushed, shoved, jostled, or simply coddled.

[kimbutgar]

5. I am a special Ed teacher and there are times the kids can get on your last nerve but I would never

Hurt them. This is unacceptable. I took over a special Ed class because the teacher couldn't deal with them. I have a regular teaching credential but my district gave me a waiver. I am a parent of a son with autism who us now an adult. I get it from being parent and teacher. I try to be the teacher my son didn't have have. I am seeing the power of being a positive teacher. My son did have some good teachers and I use them as role models.