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Student Slaps Teacher at Raleigh-Egypt High School in Memphis

MEMPHIS, TN – Police say a 15 year-old girl slapped a teacher for taking a phone away from her at Raleigh-Egypt High School.

According to Memphis Police Detective Monique Martin, the incident happened around 10:20 a.m., Tuesday, September 02, 2008.

Martin says a student was talking on a telephone that was in the classroom, when the teacher told her to stop using it. The teacher tried to take the phone away from the 15 year-old girl after she refused to put it down, said Detective Martin. Police say that is when the girl slapped the teacher.

Martin says the teacher was taken to the hospital, but there is no word on the extent of any injuries.

The student was arrested for simple assault and taken to Juvenile Court, said Martin.

Eyewitness News Everywhere uncovered more disciplinary problems at Raleigh-Egypt, including students ditching school and trespassing on the property of neighbors.  Phyllis Givens's backyard fence borders the school and she claims students have torn it down to create an escape route for skipping class.  She says the students smoke marijuana, fight and rummage through her property and the school does nothing to stop it. 

An Eyewitness news crew saw at least half a dozen students skip school Tuesday.  An MCS spokesman says some of the students may have been leaving for authorized activities off campus. 
Published Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:40 PM by smyers

Comments

 

cdoug said:

A child should stay in a child's place!!!  Once again the problem with our youth starts at home.  Alot of today's children have no respect for their elders and think that they can't be told anything.  Children please tell me what do you learn when you don't listen????  If parents took a larger roll and responsibility in the things that their children are doing we may not have as big of a problem that we do with today's youth.  Parents we need to stop trying to be our kids friends...that's not our role. We've allowed so many of our children fall out of our reach....they are our future we need to nurture and educate them so that they are ready for the world as adults.
I heard the young lady on the radio this morning giving her side of the story and I could only shake my head.  It's a shame that this child will miss 180 days of very much needed education but the discipline has to come from somewhere!!
September 4, 2008 6:54 PM
 

PRobinson1 said:

This is a shining example of why only people old enough to pay a cell phone bill, should have a cell phone. I think the teacher should have slapped her back, regardless if she is a child or not. She should have better home training in the first place. She should be expelled, not suspended, because she's sending the wrong message to other kids at the school that it's okay to do that to a teacher. Teachers already don't get paid enough, now they have to worry about their own physical safety at work. I think she's a sad, mad, sick, little child, I really do.
September 5, 2008 5:51 PM
 

zett6370 said:

Cell phones should be checked at the door. If this child had enough ordasity to ignore the teacher's order to get off the phone, then decide that you are going to assault the authority figure. Then I truely feel that her little butt should do every piece of time that has been given to her and not a minute less. Q? Where are the parent(s) in this? Are you telling me that parents don't want to be parents anymore and they rather be self indulged and leave their rug rats for society to have to deal with? I know some people may think that we should not blame the child for this that this is her parents responsiblities....but in actuality the child is old enough to know wrong from right...So in this case the child is totally on her own in this one...  
September 5, 2008 6:16 PM
 

Sherman said:

I would have slapped her back....super hard!
September 16, 2008 1:55 AM
 

whatsupwithu said:

What is really going on with the youth of today?  You could not pay me to slap my teacher when I was in school.  I would not have live to tell about it.  Everyone is talking about parents having control over they children.  Today,  parents seem like they are scared of they own children.  The children has became parents,  and the parents have became children.  You have to many parents want to be their child/childrens best friend. Thanks to the goverment who tells the children to call the police on their parents if they spink them.  Adults now are scared of children.  If you see them in the streets you scared to say anything to them because you might have to fight the parents.
    My hat go's out to the teachers here in Memphis!  I would not teach for all the money in China,  and Lord knows I need it!
A child smack me I will have to make bond, because I'm going to pull out the rod like the good book tell you too!
Memphis City School council must be crazey don't want these bad miss behaving kids paddle.  Why they setting in those big nice seats on television teachers are going through hell!
September 17, 2008 10:24 PM
 

tammy37 said:

i would be in jail because i would have given her the *** whipping she needs and would have been waiting on her mammi so i could could whup her too!
October 15, 2008 12:48 PM
 

IncognitoBlue said:

The student needs to be kicked out of school. Nothing else left to say.
November 16, 2008 5:33 PM
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