Cell phone video has emerged of a teacher threatening to kill a student during a fight at a Baltimore high school.
According to WBAL, the incident happened at Carver Vocational-Technical High School last Friday after the 17-year-old student allegedly threw something at the teacher as the class took a test. The two exchanged words, and the things quickly escalated. In the video, the teacher can be heard spewing profanities at the student in between threats.
Nikita Jones, the student's aunt, expressed her displeasure with the teacher's actions. "You're supposed to be a role model to these children and you took your shoes off and physically was fighting her like you was outside on the street," Jones said. However, WBAL noted that one student defended her.
"I don't know," the unidentified student said. "The student shouldn't have did that, but the teacher wasn't wrong for hitting her back because it was self-defense," said the student, who didn't want to be identified."
The teacher was placed on administrative leave, where she will remain while an investigation is carried out.
[via WBAL]
