'Speechless.' Middle-schoolers assault high school baseball coach, Texas video shows

[Dial H For Hero]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/speechless-middle-schoolers-assault-high-163024358.html

A Texas baseball coach was chased and beaten by a group of middle-school students in an act of retaliation against him, news outlets report.

The attack was captured on cell phone video now circulating on social media, and shows a Houston high school employee running from four students, who can be seen punching the man and knocking him to the ground.

Officials with Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District confirmed to TV station KTRK that the assault took place at Langham Creek High School on Feb. 10.

The attackers are students at Aragon Middle School, the outlet reported, and the victim is Michael Shott, an assistant baseball coach and physics teacher at Langham Creek High School.

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It seems he'd told the students they couldn't ride dirt bikes or ATVs on school grounds.

[DURHAM D]

1. Is this about the student's "FREEDOM"? nt

[jmowreader]

2. Apparently

The sick part is the kids who did this will have supporters.

[budkin]

61. Absolutely

Where does this guy think he's teaching? China!?

[Wingus Dingus]

3. Why no one wants to teach.

My son lasted one year as a teacher. That was enough to make him wary of today's youth--and he's only in his mid 20's.

[XanaDUer2]

4. Lord of the flies

Hopefully the parents won't defend these sociopaths

[LisaM]

6. The "parents" obviously let 13-year olds have dirt bikes and ATVs

that they can apparently ride around at will, unsupervised. They will likely see nothing wrong with their kids trying to ride them on school grounds to begin with.

The kids could be younger than 13. I just picked that as a likely age.

[leftyladyfrommo]

53. Reminds me more of A Clockwork Orange.

The kids were just psychopaths.

[XanaDUer2]

56. Youre right

Poor coach. I hope the kids and parents are held to account

[leftyladyfrommo]

62. Something will happen. Those kids will get arrested.

Then who knows what kind of plea deal they get.

Kids like that need to find out there are severe consequences for their terrible choices.

[dalton99a]

5. They'll get detention.

Sickening

[calimary]

27. Expulsion would be more fitting.

And a call to the local constabulary to come and pick 'em up.

[rsdsharp]

7. Hopefully, the education experience (experiment?) of these fine young gentlemen

has now ended.

[BlackSkimmer]

8. Future criminals of America.

Very sad.

[SergeStorms]

28. Future MAGAts.

I wouldn't set foot in the State of Texas for anything.

Sorry, DUers from Texas. I know there are many good and decent people in your state, but the assholes are so "in your face" they believe they own the place, and everyone in it. I feel sorry for you and your families.

[BlackSkimmer]

38. I don't live in Texas, but I do find these comments amusing.

Just recently here, I’ve seen posts about a fire company in PA making fun of the death of a black child and using the n word. Numerous posts about racist incidents in CA and other states.

Somehow, no one ever makes a comment about those states. Fascinating.

[SergeStorms]

58. Racist comments are never good....

no matter where they're coming from, buy this goes quite a bit beyond a racist comment.

Maybe you don't see it that way.

[BlackSkimmer]

59. I'll look for your posts when I see this happening in other states.

But I won't hold my breath.

[BlackSkimmer]

63. Seriously doubt they're the spawn of MAGAts.

Pay closer attention.

[CrispyQ]

9. OMG, they broke his arm!

Their parents should have to pay his medical bills.

[LisaM]

10. I know, and he's a baseball coach.

That could actually end his ability to do that job.

First, they need to confiscate those ATVs and dirt bikes. Not letting them ride them at all till they learn how to respect people and spaces while doing it would be the best way to address this. Make them take some classes in how to use them.

They should go without their ATVs as long as he goes without use of his arm (or longer, but that's a starting point).

[BlackSkimmer]

12. No doubt they rode them on city streets to get to the school.

Confiscation is the least of what should happen. Totally agree.

[LisaM]

13. Good point.

I wouldn't be at all surprised.

[BlackSkimmer]

18. Sadly, I don't hold out much hope for parental intervention.

If the kids are already acting like that, it speaks volumes.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Yep. What would our parents have done to us if we beat up a teacher?

[BlackSkimmer]

42. We wouldn't have even considered such a thing.

Or beating up anyone for that matter.

[Irish_Dem]

43. Exactly. Never occurred to us.

[XanaDUer2]

57. I know!

Something in the social fabric is breaking down

[yardwork]

45. I can't even imagine.

[Irish_Dem]

47. I know, I cannot even imagine the scenario.

[Dial H For Hero]

48. My parents never laid a hand on me. But if I'd done that...

[Irish_Dem]

50. My father had a belt he threatened us with, but he never used it.

The thought of it was enough to keep us in line.

I think he would have gotten out the belt and used it if we did what these kids did.

(PS It didn't take us long to realize the belt was just an idle threat.)

[Dial H For Hero]

51. I never got into any significant trouble growing up, but my older brother once threatened to hit my

mom. As he was pulling back his hand, my mother said in a steady voice, "Your father will kill you". While not speaking literally, there was no doubt that he would have been beaten within an inch of his life.

(The good news is he wound up as a nice and decent guy but had some issues as a teenager).

[Irish_Dem]

52. Same here. If we had physically attacked Mom, cannot imagine what my

father would have done. Same thing your dad would do.

Yes some siblings were hot numbers but matured nicely.

[Jedi Guy]

67. I wouldn't have lived to see the sun go down if I'd done that.

Just the idea of physically attacking a teacher would have been unthinkable to begin with. Even the most violent, antisocial kids at my school knew better than to put hands on a teacher. Sheesh.

[Irish_Dem]

68. Kids may have hit each other, but never a teacher or coach.

Right, we would not be alive to talk about this topic if we had pulled this as kids.

[Jedi Guy]

70. Oh, for me it would've been a toss-up as to who got to me first, mom or dad.

That's one of those "don't stop running" scenarios...

[madville]

11. Charge them as adults

And let them spend some time in the regular county jail or state prison, that’s probably where they are eventually going anyway, can get a head start.

[USALiberal]

17. They are not adults! Nt

[BlackSkimmer]

19. They broke the guy's arm.

Suspension is not enough.

[madville]

64. At least a felony charge, even if under the juvenile court system

and expulsion from school. Can't have multiple students beating a teacher with no consequences outside of school discipline.

[Ex Lurker]

66. Some on this thread are positively giddy at the prospect of incarcerating more Black children nt

[Jedi Guy]

69. What does their race have to do with anything? Most people here probably didn't even know.

Did they or did they not attack an adult? Should there not be consequences because of their race or his? Facts are facts. They did it. Their racial background has nothing to do with it.

That said, I'm not in favor of simply chucking them in the pokey from the word go. Clearly there are some issues going on in their lives, since this behavior is most certainly abnormal. I think social services needs to get involved, including some psychological and psychiatric attention for these kids.

[bringthePaine]

14. sue the fuck out of the parents and lock up the fledging little shits

[onecaliberal]

16. Sue the parents. That will be the only consequences.

[Auggie]

24. Parents might not have any money

[onecaliberal]

25. Then sure they never will.

[LisaM]

33. Well, their kids have ATVs and dirt bikes.

They must have some spending power.

[Auggie]

35. Spending power does not always equate to savings

[LisaM]

65. No, it doesn't.

But they should qualify for one of those loans my cc companies are always trying to push on me.

[iluvtennis]

15. Just shameful. Suspend them all.

[Lucky Luciano]

21. Juvenile prison more like it

[Lucky Luciano]

20. I would support this teacher using baseball bats on these pondscum miscreants.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Self-entitled brats spoiled by their self-entitled parents. . . . nt

[cab67]

23. At this point, punishing the students won't do much good.

I don't know the family situations of any of these kids, but if they feel entitled to the point that a teacher asking them to take their ATVs somewhere else should be targeted for assault, something's gone wrong at home.

They should be taken out of school for everyone else's protection right now. And that's a shame, because they probably need education more than anything else. This is why I hope they can eventually return to school, and that the parents should shoulder the blame for this.

I should add - if their parents can afford ATVs for their kids, they can afford to cover this teacher's medical expenses and salary for the next few years.

[questionseverything]

30. By jr high people know right from wrong

These criminals know gang jumping a teacher on school property is wrong , they need to spend years in juvenile detention.

The parents probably are on the hook for the money damages but we have no idea if they are good parents are not, sometimes good parents have asshole kids

[cab67]

32. Agreed - they know right from wrong.

The problem is that they probably don't care. That's why punishment is unlikely to have much impact.

I'm not saying they should go unpunished. I'm merely bemoaning the futility of it all.

[questionseverything]

39. Unfortunately for some people the threat of punishment is all they care about or understand

[dlk]

26. These nasty little thugs learned this behavior at home

No wonder so many teachers are leaving the profession.

[BlackSkimmer]

44. Absolutely. nt

[CaptainTruth]

29. Legitimate political discourse.

It's good to see children learning about civics at such a young age.

From the RNC.

[childfreebychoice]

31. Brats like this, and right wing trying to rewrite history

That teachers can teach, will not only lead to exodus of teachers, but keep ppl fr even going into teaching

[Celerity]

34. 'The students were arrested, but soon after threats to shoot up the school were made'

sounds like gang affiliation

[BlackSkimmer]

49. No doubt.

Scary times.

[leftyladyfrommo]

54. There are some poor kids actually trying to learn

in the middle of all this chaos.

[WarGamer]

36. Poor Parenting 101

[LiberalFighter]

37. If that is the case expell the students.

[Poiuyt]

55. They should be expelled and prosecuted for battery

[BlackSkimmer]

46. Seriously?

Did the OP commit a crime?

Nope, the junior criminals did.

Funny, you’re the only one who mentioned race.

[Brainfodder]

60. Ah Texas, already forgot and lost interest.

My anger management thoughts/response to Texas (and so much else now) in general.