Georgia Teacher arrested for threatening to kill middle school student who questioned his Israeli flag
The report says a student wanted to talk to Reese about the Israeli flag in his classroom and told him she found it offensive.
Reese asked her if it had anything to do with Judaism. She wanted to know why it was hanging there, and Reese told the student he was Jewish and had family members who still lived in Israel.
The student says she found the flag offensive "due to Israelis killing Palestinians."
Reese then told the student she was being antisemitic.
After that, several different witnesses independently said they heard Reese say, "he would kick her f*****g a**, slit her god***n throat and drag her a** outside and cut her head off."
A faculty member says she heard Reese say, "You don't make an antisemitic comment like that to a Jew." The witness says the student responded negatively to Reese but was not yelling.
The witness says the students left the classroom, but Reese followed them down the hallway.
The same witness says Reese was later seen returning to his classroom, cursing extremely loudly. The witness says he was yelling that he "should not be spoken to like that because he is a Jew."
He went on saying, "I will drag her a** into the parking lot, slit her f*****g throat and kill her."
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...his response pretty much defines "the wrong response".
This was an opportunity to allow her to learn something about history and instead, this guy decides he's going to teach her a lesson. Sheesh - his watch is wound a little to tight to be in a classroom no matter what she said and no matter what his religion.
30 years. And you see everything that you can imagine. (Yes, everything) I was attacked by students 3 times.
What you hear about teaching students is probably true. We have thousands and upon thousands of teachers, and
millions of all kinds of students.
(All kinds of teachers in the U.S.A...., smart, stupid, trusting, not trusting, new, old, mean, kind, totally ignorant, totally
brilliant, etc. etc. etc.) and all kinds of students in the U.S.A. also..
In close to 30 years of teaching high school students in different parts of one of the largest cities in the U.S.A. (Chicago),
I saw it all. You cannot imagine what I observed over 28 years in 3 different high schools. (in different parts of the city)
I also saw every kind of student you can imagine, from the illiterate ones, to the brilliant ones, and all in between. I taught
gifted students and not gifted students. (so called brilliant students and also illiterate students at the 3 schools.)
A good friend from college got me a transfer from an almost illiterate high school to a high school that was filled with
bright and brilliant students. It is an almost unbelievable experience. Some out there will think I am making this up. but
I am not. I have the lesson plans stored somewhere in my apartment.............(I save everything...much too much) ......
to prove all this.....and .........Most Important: ....There are people that I taught in Chicago...that can prove I was their teacher.
(if you can find them.)
I was trained to be a high school teacher at the University of Illinois in Champaign Illinois. My education was very good,
but it did not prepare me to deal with the kinds of problems that I dealt with.- like the violence, terror, non literate, angry,
abused students...and so on. What I learned in teaching in the 3 high schools was way beyond my imagination. (and yours
too). What I thought the experience would be, and what it was/and became was as far from my original thinking as is
the earth to the moon...and further.....
They were both grammar school teachers and, based on many conversations over the years, I think both would agree with you wholeheartedly. What they saw starting towards the end of their tenure only scratched the surface of what you've seen, especially in high schools.
Thank you for your service.
It's something we seems to say reflexively to folks in the military and seem to say it rarely to those who teach.
