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A Texas English teacher is under investigation after he was filmed beating a student and violently pinning him against a classroom wall.
The incident took place Wednesday afternoon at Humble High School, which is located on the outskirts of Houston, and left the 10th-grader in the emergency room with injuries.
The footage showed the teacher knocking the student to the ground and overturning a table, then holding him against a wall as other students tried to separate them.
The teacher was placed on furlough, and the boy’s father, Elvert Bolden, demands that he be banned from teaching again. Bolden said the ‘disturbing’ fight started because the teacher thought his son was talking too loud.
Student’s father, Elvert Bolden, demands that he be banned from teaching again
A Texas English teacher is under investigation after he was filmed beating a student and violently pressing him against a classroom wall.
The incident took place Wednesday afternoon at Humble High School, which is located on the outskirts of Houston.
The shocking clip showed the teacher in a purple sweatshirt grabbing the black-clad student.
The student appeared to be running away from the teacher, who grabbed his arm as the two fell onto a table and hurled chairs into the air in the classroom scrum.
The teacher then held the struggling student against the wall with his hands on either side of his neck, while a group of other students appeared to try to break them up.
At one point, the student raised his hands in the air as if to show that he was not resisting, but the teacher continued to hold him against the wall.
The teacher slammed the student to the ground and climbed on top of him before they finally broke apart.
Bolden (pictured) said his son was left limping, bruised and in need of crutches after the beating. He said that the teacher “stayed in his [son’s] face, antagonizing him. My son told him ‘You told me to shut up. I’m not saying anything else’ and then they told me that the teacher took the chair from my baby’
“I want him arrested, charges filed,” the father said. I want his teacher’s license revoked. I don’t want him to be able to go to any school in any state and be able to teach another kid in case he does this again.’
The shocking clip showed the teacher in a purple sweatshirt struggling with the student dressed in black.
The student appeared to be running away from the teacher, who grabbed his arm as the pair fell onto a table and sent chairs flying in the classroom scrum.
The teacher held the struggling student against the wall with his hands on either side of his neck, while a group of other students seemed to try to separate them.
The Humble Independent School District called the incident “unacceptable” in a statement.
‘This shouldn’t have happened. It is unacceptable,’ the district said. ‘The teacher has been put on leave. He is undergoing an investigation and it is unlikely that he will return when the investigation is concluded.
The district said the teacher “used physical force to try to get a student to sit up and listen.”
They called the behavior of the teacher ‘unacceptable and contrary to standards and expectations for all employees.’
“The district has a process for addressing serious concerns that includes reporting to law enforcement and cooperating fully with any law enforcement investigation.”
The school added that school district police were investigating.
“If I had put my hands on my baby, I would have been in jail,” said the student’s father, Elvert Bolden.
The teacher threw the student to the ground and climbed on top of him before they finally broke apart.
The teacher holds the student against the classroom wall while other students try to separate them.
The teacher throws the student to the ground and then climbs on top of him
Bolden said her son was left limping, bruised and in need of crutches after the beating.
He said that the teacher “stayed in his [son’s] face, antagonizing him. My son told him ‘You told me to shut up. I don’t say anything else’ and that’s when they told me the teacher snatched the chair from under my baby’.
“I want him arrested, charges filed,” he added. I want his teacher’s license revoked. I don’t want him to be able to go to any school in any state and be able to teach another kid in case he does this again.’
‘If I had put my hands on my baby, I would have been in jail.’