School Teacher Knocks Out 12-Year-Old Student Over A Joke About A Football Team

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A 7th grader from Beaumont, TX was knocked out by an assistant teacher from his math class last week.

According to 12-year-old Reginald Wells, the teacher blindsided him with a punch to the face after he made a joke about his teacher’s favorite football team, “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 told 12 News.  

The boy says the teacher first hit him in the shoulder, “and I looked at him like ‘what the heck?’’ And then Reginald says he pushed the teacher’s shoulder, and that’s when the teacher hit him with the knock out punch. Reginald, who weighs only 80 pounds, fell straight to the ground.

“The left side of my face was numb…my lip hurt…my head was hurt, like it had been shaken.” Says Reginald. The boy’s mother was briefed by the school’s principal about the incident…

“(The principal) said Reginald was punched, in the shoulder, and then hit two times and uppercut, and then slid across the floor. It weighed heavy on my heart, because I’ve never put my hands on my son.”

The most disturbing part of this story? The teacher was not even arrested. He was thrown out of the school and fired on the spot, but the teacher was not arrested. Reginald’s mother was shocked, “For you to just let a teacher do that to him and just walk off, he’s fired and walks off, I can’t accept that.”

According to Reginald, the teacher told him that he was having a “bad day” before school officials escorted him out. He did not apologize for knocking the boy out, though. The incident is currently being investigated by officials down in Beaumont.

Unbelievable. We all have bad days, but you can’t just knock out some 12-year-old who insulted your favorite football team. You’re supposed to go home and let all your anger out on a throw pillow.

Source: 12News

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School Teacher Knocks Out 12-Year-Old Student Over A Joke About A Football Team

Resistance Led by Eliz Warren Knocks Summers Out—Now It"s Yellen"s Turn

Obama can now make history by nominating the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve.

Something to cheer about, people! If you"ve been concerned about the power of big banks, the need for financial reform and the blight of crony capitalism, you can breathe a sigh of relief: Larry Summers will not be your next Fed chair. The man who helped bring you the last financial crisis will not get his hands on one of the country"s two most powerful economic levers.

On Sunday, the former White House economic adviser and Treasury secretary officially withdrew his name as a candidate, according to the Washington Post.

For weeks, despite Obama"s apparent enthusiasm for Summers, progressives have been actively voicing their strong objections for reasons ranging from his preference for Wall Street over Main Street to his blatant sexism (for the full list, see “7 Reasons to Fight Obama on Picking Out-of-Touch Crony Capitalist Larry Summers as Fed Chair“). Most recently, his troubling conflict of interest problem has been highlighted with particular attention to his lucrative consulting gig with megabank Citigroup. In the Senate, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) signaled strong opposition to Summers, and was joined by senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jeff Merkely (D-Ore). When Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), considered a moderate, joined the “no” group, things began to look very shaky for Summers and the press began to predict an ugly confirmation battle.

In a letter to the President, Summers explained his reasons for stepping aside.

“It has been a privilege to work with you since the beginning of your Administration as you led the nation through a severe recession into a sustained economic recovery,” he wrote. “This is a complex moment in our national life. I have reluctantly concluded that any possible confirmation process for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the Federal Reserve, the Administration, or ultimately, the interests of the nation’s ongoing economic recovery.

Senator Warren deserves full props for not backing down under White House pressure. She had good reason to remain firm: Not only does Summers represent a bank-centic worldview, he actively lobbied to prevent Warren from heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, her brainchild.

President Obama now has the opportunity to make history by nominating Janet Yellen as the first-ever female head of the Federal Reserve. She has always been the most qualified person for the job, known for her attention to the unemployment crisis, her cool head, her collaborative talent, and her foresight on the economy. Unlike Summers, Janet Yellen was not a cheerleader for the deregulation that helped cause the 2007-"08 financial crisis.

Earlier this summer, about a third of Senate Democrats signed a letter to Obama endorsing Janet Yellen for Fed chair over Summers. In recent days, Nobel laureaute Joseph Stiglitz and 400 other economists wrote a letter to President Obama laying out their reasons for supporting Yellen.

In addition to Yellen, the White House has also mentioned the possibility of Donald Kohn, former vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Progressives have vowed to keep up the pressures for a Yellen appointment.

 

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