Everyone knows — talking shit about a sports team is grounds for a beat down (apparently).
But not when the person you’re arguing with is a child.
A 12-year-old student at Willie Ray Smith Middle School in Beaumont, Texas was punched by a teacher after he joked about his favorite football team.
According to the Daily Mail:
‘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 Wells said.
Reginald says he stopped in the hallway to speak to a teacher. He said he made fun of the teacher’s favorite team and that was when he was hit.
“All of a sudden he just hit me, in my shoulder… And I looked at him like ‘what the heck?'”
Reginald, who is 4ft 11 tall and weighs 80 pounds, pushed the teacher’s shoulder and then he claims the adult punched him in the face and knocked him out. Reginald said he woke up a few seconds later.
But the teacher didn’t just punch the seventh-grader once.
“(The principal) said Reginald was punched, in the shoulder, and then hit two times and uppercut, and then slid across the floor,” his mother Adrianne said. “It weighed heavy on my heart, because I’ve never put my hands on my son.”
As for the teacher, he was escorted out of the school and was fired immediately.
Reginald said the teacher spoke to him afterwards saying: “I can’t apologize for what I did, I was just having a bad day and I just snapped.”
The family has filed a report with Beaumont Independent School District Police Department and wants to press charges. But we bet they want to get someone to “snap” on his ass too.
SOURCE: Daily Mail | PHOTO CREDIT: Screengrab/Newsfix
