"The last person's voice I heard was some girl saying that I should call my mom, and then he like hit me, and I blacked out," Reginald said in an exclusive interview with 12 News Sunday.
According to 12News:
Reginald, a 7th grader, says Friday afternoon he stopped in the hallway to chat with an assistant teacher from his math class. He says he cracked a joke about the teacher's favorite football team.
"All of a sudden he just hit me, in my shoulder... and I looked at him like 'what the heck?'"
Standing 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 80 pounds, Reginald says he then pushed the teacher's shoulder. That's when he claims the teacher blindsided him with a punch to the face that knocked him out. He says he woke up a few seconds later.
"The left side of my face was numb... my lip hurt... my head was hurt, like it had been shaken."
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"(The principal) said Reginald was punched, in the shoulder, and then hit two times and uppercut, and then slid across the floor," Adrianne said. "It weighed heavy on my heart, because I've never put my hands on my son."
Adrianne says the teacher was escorted off the premises and fired on the spot, but before that, Reginald says the teacher said something to him.
"He said 'I can't apologize for what I did, I was just having a bad day and I just snapped.'"
That is out of this world. I do not like sports, I have no favorite teams, but I know as a matter of fact from listening to co-workers argue over football that making fun of another person's team of choice is part of being a sports fan.
Any adult who claims to have been having a bad day as an excuse to punch a child deserves to be locked up. Sadly no charges have been pressed yet against this pathetic excuse for a human being. Try anger management, try meditation, try apologizing. A bad day is no excuse for massively incorrect actions.
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