Florida Teacher Punches Out Student Who Called Her ‘Vulgar Names’
- Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:11pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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My Fox Tampa Bay reports:
Authorities say a high school art teacher in Brooksville was arrested after punching a student who called her vulgar names.
According to a Hernando County Sheriff’s Office arrest report, 64-year-old Sandra Hadsock was arrested Wednesday after taking two or three swings at a student in the hallway. The student received a minor injury on his lip.
Officials say other students pulled the teen away from the teacher.
Joe Vitalo, president of the Hernando Classroom Teachers Association, maintains she acted in self-defense. Vitalo says the incident was captured by a cell phone camera.
Hadsock will be suspended with pay, pending a school district investigation.
Hadsock was arrested on a charge of child abuse without causing great bodily harm. The arrest report states she refused to cooperate with a deputy.
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Comments (245)
DRB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:46pmI’d love to be on her jury!!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:43pmShe looks pretty hot for a 64 year old. Now usually when you call a woman vulgar names it has something to do with their sexuality. She should have stuck that kids head up between her legs and given him a Cleveland steamer. How do like that clam chowder kid?
Report Post »psst
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:54pmYa really can‘t tell if she’s hot by just her face? Though it looks Ok.
Report Post »I mean, by 64 everythang has drooped waaaaay down.
But what da hey!! Whatever floats one ‘s boat.
123gone
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:42pmI thought assult on a senior, teacher or otherwise was a felony. Am I wrong?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:02pmYou are correct .. especially in Florida they take it very seriously.
Report Post »TruthisHealthy
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 5:15amI applaud people who choose not to have kids. They are not worth having anymore. Parents cannot discipline their kids or they’ll be arrested and jailed. Unbelievable!
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:40pmthere’s more to this story – “refused to cooperate with a deputy”. just wondering………..
Report Post »looseyloo
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:33amThat sounds like a bunch of hooey. Other than resisting arrest, which is a real charge, this matter of not cooperating with a deputy could be anything that the cop didn’t like, but was still not against the law…,could have told him to speak with her lawyer.
Sounds more like the cop’s problem.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:45amYou should pretty much always “refuse to cooperate” when law enforcement is digging up information to press charges against you. She committed a felony by attacking a child because she couldn’t take his words.
She’s going to jail and rightly so. But she doesn’t have to help put herself there.
Report Post »Dougral
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:40pmWhen I was a senior in high school we had a young homeroom teacher. One kid had an argument with her and told her “F-you”. She grabbed him by the lapels, pulled him across the desk and screamed “no, F-you” in his face as she flung him into the desk behind him. Kid was utterly stunned, rest of us were totally impressed. Funny thing is that teacher would be about 64 right now.
Report Post »Workforit
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:36pmJust think If this teacher lived in Texas… The whole thing would have never happened!
Kids can leap capitol “T” in a single bound, every day, but they aren’t all totally stupid (for the most part)
But they all know they aren’t faster than a speeding bullet, I don’t care how fast their mouthes are!
Report Post »Pat in PA
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:33pmHow many “teachers” are still “teaching” at 64….at 64 you are SS eligible and most teachers I know have long retired before 64 because their states pension system facilitated it……and what provoked this student to call her “vulgar” names….this is another recent Blaze story that has a lot of holes in it….GB has obviously delegated editorial responsibilities to a “tolerant” individual
Report Post »looseyloo
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:18amDo we care what “provoked” the student ? If he called her vulgar names, I have zero interest in what his provocation was. He got what he deserved (maybe less)
The inmates have been allowed to run the asylum for too long.
Report Post »grand slam grandam
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:39pmHowever old the teacher is is none of your business! What in the world does that have to do with disallowing vulgar speech!? She has been able to sustain herself all these years and finally she got her belly full and acted on it! Have you taken notice of society’s present overall breakdown? It‘s affecting the country’s classrooms, big-time!
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:32pmShe should have knocked his teeth out. If it was my wife I would look the little DemoNazi up and cut his tongou out!
Report Post »Orwell_Was_An_Optimist
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:30pmGood on her. Hope he needed subQ stitches.
Report Post »jim
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:30pmMarxist teacher organizations, trying to brainwash our students, breed chaos… eventually the prisoners take over the prison.
Report Post »Faith_Grace
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:29pmGood for her…Some of these young people are so disrespectful. I have always told my son’s..”If you have a problem with a teacher and your disrespectful, I’ll take the teachers side every time. I don’t care if you are in the right or not.”
Report Post »And it is sad that this teacher will probably lose her job.
TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:28pmWhere do I send money for attorney fees…….I’m glad she stood up to this SMART @$$………
Report Post »psst
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:26pmShe’s a 64 yrs old woman. How old is this student? What’s his height and weight?
Is he Black,White, Hispanic,Moslem ,Hindu,Asian,American Indian ?
Is he a 3′ Pigmy/Pygmy? Could he be about the same age as the teacher?, ya know some students takes forever to get through ha-sKrool. sometimes, they start to collect socialist insecurity checks before they graduate. some never do, they die ih ha-sKrool of old age.
Some even form families there.
What are the vulgar words?
Report Post »C’mon, we need to know the rest of the story.
jefryga
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:25pmBring back corporal punishment. It works. I’ll bet this kid has been mouthy for a long time.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:25pmThey didn’t mention the the art she taught was martial arts. She just taught the mouthy kid a life lesson. Use filthy language to a lady in her 60′s who you consider elderly and she just might clean your clock. Now for the rest of his life this punks “friends” are going to be kidding him about the old lady who knocked him out. Tough guy in his own mind.
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:24pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:03pmI am a retired teacher. You can still maintain order and courtesy in your classroom if you model them and earn them, and will not accept anything less. And during the Springtime mating season when the sap rises and young men get froggy, at least in my school district, if a student hits you first you can defend yourself. It only happened to me once in a 15 year teaching career, but I am a retired Marine with a lot of martial arts training and once was all it took. Word got around that it was a really, really bad idea to mess with me. My example must have worked, at least for some… I live in a university town and two of my former students, following my example, are graduating tomorrow and being commissioned, one into the Marines and the other into the Army. Both have invited me to their commissioning ceremonies.
Report Post »Jeetman
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:24pmThis is part of the problem in our schools – students who think they can do or say anything they want to a teacher knowing full well that the teacher can’t do anything.
Well this kid found out some teachers won’t put up with there disrespectful behavior. This must be one tough lady for her to be 64 and go after a high school boy. I don’t agree with her getting physical with him but I can understand why she did it. She wasn’t going to put up with this foul mouthed jerky kid hehe.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:32pmToo bad she only gave him a fat lip.
Report Post »grand slam grandam
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:37pmNext time, hit him harder!
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:22pmWhat happens when society begins to break down? Children not respecting authority… Those in Authority not maintaining order…
Report Post »Ovedya
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:22pmTeaching like a boss. Good for her.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:21pmI think our public schools would benefit greatly from bring back corporal punishment, especially punching and flogging of students who aren’t getting a proper butt kicking at home….LOL
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:37pmthat’s right. bring back the ear thump and tug to assume the position then a snappy public paddling. the young punks and thugs might learn to respect.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 5:12pmThe woman deserves an award! Bring back corporal punishment, don’t spare the rod and teach some respect!
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:20pmWow, yesterday teachers wouldn’t break up fights with students, today they are starting them. I can’t keep up…
Report Post »crap4face
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:19pm“Punch Out’” would mean a knock out. At least a knock down. Weak douchebaggery. Weak misleading title to story.
Report Post »not-a-lib
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:15pmThis was an art class?
My art class, back in the day, was…er…. mellooooowwwww.
Report Post »rukiddinme59
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:35pmshoooof eeeer ya go
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:15pmHe must of thought he was talking to his momma.
Sam
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:30pmNo kid would do that at school unless he was doing it at home too.
Sam
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:35pmYes .. my son knew better … or he would have gotten exactly what this kid did.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:48pmfunny
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:18pmKids today don’t care what they say to anyone. I’ve worked with kids that deserved to be slapped, but you just can’t act on that – even with adults. There have been reports in my local paper where people have been arrested for “allegedly” threatening someone over the phone. To actually hit someone is sure to cause a problem, even if they deserve it. In the past, cops would tell everyone to calm down and go home, but not today. It’s a different world.
Report Post »Sam Brown
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:25pmActually this was really a time for a tender moment. Use a stick on the kids behind till he gets tender LOL LOL you don’t touch a teacher in anger.
Report Post »annieoakley
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:58pmYou are correct. Likely he hits his Mother too. Should a teacher have to take physical abuse too? From a high school student who is bigger than she? I don’t blame her a bit. The boy-child is old enough to know better. He could easily be 17, 18,19 years old. Stop defending these monsters.
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:15pmGod love her!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:30pmLet the courts decide this matter, if charges are filed.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:34pmThey should bring back the “paddle” they had when I was in school … one teacher would go get another to witness and a student with a “mouth” was taken care of.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:41pmanother “abortion” that made it to high school!!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:42pmThis Lady in in MY town…If she comes by my store I just may give her a free sandwich.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:49pmTeh only difference between OBAMA and OSAMA is the BS
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:53pm@banjarmon
That would be great ! Please tell her I like her “spunk”. Someone needs to teach these punks some manners.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:55pmThe kid must be a transfer from the Arizona school district
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:58pmTo bad she didn’t have a bat for his attitude adjustment lesson.
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:02pmGood for her! About time someone laid some smack down on these snot nosed brats!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:02pmBanjarmon
Great Idea….Tell her she does have supporters. I love her backbone. Good thing I don’t teach anymore, I could never take the abuse Teachers have to take from the disrespectful brats. I say bring back punishment. There is no deterratant for them, they know nothing will happen to them. Just like our enemies now know the U.S.A. can only “Talk” to them and not waterboard.
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:04pmWow—she shouldn’t have gone there, but at the same time, kids are so brazen.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:07pmSorry teacher, you can’t hit students, as much as they might deserve it.
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:08pmI disagree, not only should she have done it, she should have done it harder.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:10pmShe should have shot the puke!
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:11pmTeachers are like everyone else, sometimes you have just had enough, and there comes a time when you have to slug it out. I bet the kid deserved it.
Report Post »thinkinghuman
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:18pmI know I would have got smacked up for LESS if I was in school and did that. Give this teacher a RAISE!! for courage to do what it right.
Report Post »Black Tiger
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:22pmHehe, she gave the kid a “Rick James”… Wonder if the kid’s name was Charlie Murphy?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:56pmIn the AZ high school system, I used to be the target of all the idiot bullies in the area; every year the newest batch of the dingbat baboons would arrive, and seemed to naturally come into my area. The policy usually was if you got into a fight, and did nothing – not even defending yourself, you were automatically suspended for the semester or the year with an automatic failing grade.
So my grandfather always had a simple policy, never start a fight, yet if one comes, finish it and let the other person know he has lost.
Report Post »mill
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:10amUnfortunately this teacher will be reprimanded severly and the student patted o the wrist and told to do better when he can.
I don’t k n ow who did what….if he hit her first, fine….but, if she hit him..she knows the law…Not that I don’t defend her hitting the brat , it’s the law says she cannot.
Report Post »D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:19amI really gotta say, first the teacher that does nothing and now this… I think we’re better off with the later and not the former.
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CowboyExpat
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:23amRght ON!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:27amSure she can JZS, and she did.
Report Post »She may have to suffer the consequences for her actions, but we will just have to wait and see.
Sometimes people gotta do what they gotta do.
theonefromabove
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:52amSounds like she should get some jail time.
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Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:45amBet you a hundred bucks that the punk had it coming. This lady sounds a bit like my wife, and I love her for it!
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RepubliCorp
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:46amBANJARMON I lived in Brooksville moved to Zephyrhills
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:51amThe government should NOT paddle your children.
What’s wrong with you people…
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 3:32amI am with the teacher on this one. Snow you know the courts will side with the kid. I grew up where you talked back to a teacher and not only did I get it at shool with a strap but I got it worse at home. You know what, kids were so much better back then, and there were fights but not like there are today. Our schools are so very different now. We took God out of the Classroom, then went disapline, and now look what we got!
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Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:05amSpare the rod and spoil the child. Kids NEED to be beaten when they behave that way. But first the parents and courts need to be beaten for allowing this culture of lawlessness in our schools and homes. Maybe if there was more discipline in classrooms there wouldn’t be such insanity over toy guns and pocket knives.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:26amGood for her.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:35amKid the kid use the “C” word?
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 6:37amI love her too! Good job teacher! It’s about time the Teachers take back control of their classrooms!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:32amBANJARMON, yes, this has hit (pun intended) close to home. Oops, I mean it has hit where I live too.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:37amgood for her. kids are ******
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:49amAnother stupid lib teacher thinking she’s above the law. Hope they fire her a$$ and put her in jail. Then watch the unions make a$$es of themselves.
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:02amI was thrown against a locker by a teacher once. The bottom line was that I deserved it. Look at things today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dNIXND6T5E This video shows who the real enemy is.
Report Post »DC
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:23amThese kids need to learn a little respect.
Report Post »Keep up the good work.
cassandra
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:39amSo these teachers can stand by and let one kid punch another but if they are called names they start punching! here is another example to get rid of tenure
Report Post »proliance
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:40amYou people who think that teachers starting a brawl with students is a good thing need your head examined.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:50amI feel bad for the nation’s cops and teachers for basically each and every day they face an on slaught of wild immoral animals… They are simply the products of a vile wicked Media and the ever failing family structure..
Report Post »BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:52amBAAM !!!!! You know that kid is going to take heat for getting jacked by a 60 something year old lady. My hat’s off to her. Kids have a way of getting out of control if not checked. These poor teachers have been putting up with this abuse for way too long. Some may call what she did abuse as well. I just call it positive punishment. Giving a fist to the lip for vulgar disrespect. Now that’s “CLASSIC” conditioning.
Report Post »Trance
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:57amI wouldn’t be so quick to judge. The facts don’t always fit the stereotype of the teacher whose had enough of the jerk student. I used to go to a private religeous school that allowed corporal punishment, and it took over a year to get rid of an abusive teacher who beat up students.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 9:43am.
Report Post »I guess he learned his lesson.
My parents would have done worse after they found out.
Blackhawk1
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 10:14amFunny how teachers will stand by and watch students beat the crap out of each other but don’t bad mouth a teacher. I wonder how the union will explain this one?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 12:52pmThis is what happens when parents refuse to discipline their offspring. No teacher should have to put up w/even the hint of disrespect in the classroom. Then again, this is what you get when you make the classroom a “child centered” place rather than the adult centered one I learned in. Rare is the child who knows what he/she wants to learn and will find joy in pursuing that learning.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 3:41pmWe had teachers that would do that at the drop of a hat. They believed in maintaining discipline.
Report Post »7hunt77
Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:38pmIs that all she did? Good thing it wasnt back when i was in school.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on May 15, 2011 at 7:20amgood
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