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"Houston-area teacher, Sheri Lynn Davis, is being sued by the family of a 13-year-old student she beat up in late April. The school, at which the incident occurred, is also being sued after a video surfaced of the assault, which took place for over a minute, while another teacher watched, during which she kicked him, slapped his face and dragged him across the floor of the classroom.  According to the Houston Chronicle, the principal of the school initially put the teacher on administrative duty but later fired her after the cell phone video, taken by another student, aired on a local television station. I watched the video yesterday and at first thought the teacher, while being inappropriate, was only joking, which the student, Isaiah Reagins, has said he thought as well. &amp;quot;I thought she was playing at first until she threw the desk, and then that&amp;#039;s when I got scared,&amp;quot; Reagins said. Here is the video, but it&amp;#039;s upsetting, so I don&amp;#039;t suggest you watch it. There is nothing to &amp;quot;judge for yourself,&amp;quot; anyway, because there is no fathomable reason a teacher should ever, ever, ever treat a student that way. I don&amp;#039;t care if he was threatening her or the other students, I don&amp;#039;t care if he was picking on someone half his size, I don&amp;#039;t care if he was doing narcotics openly in the middle of the classroom. There are ways to handle such behavior, and beating a 13-year-old is not one of them. What&amp;#039;s scares me is what would have happened if we didn&amp;#039;t live in an age of technology. How many crimes like this have gone and continue to go unpunished because there was no camera in the room and the victims are too scared or too underprivileged to say anything \u2013and even if they did, they didn&amp;#039;t have the proof. While we fret over what technology is doing to our children&amp;#039;s minds and social skills, here is a moment where it protected them. More likely than not, the student with the phone was not supposed to be carrying it during school hours, but because he or she was, this teacher&amp;#039;s crime was caught on tape and she will not be allowed around children again. My only question is why she hasn&amp;#039;t been arrested. Isn&amp;#039;t it illegal in this country to give a 13-year-old a black eye? But of course, for many of us, our teacher-student interactions aren&amp;#039;t quite as upsetting. Conflict is inevitable but (hopefully) this is a rare case. So if you want to know how to help Make School Better for Your Child, check out this WomansDay.com story! - Alexandra Gekas, Associate Editor "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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