TX Elementary Teacher Accused of Attacking Elderly Couple at Shopping Mall
- Posted on February 25, 2011 at 1:56am by
Meredith Jessup
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A Texas elementary school teacher was put on administrative leave earlier this week after being arrested for assaulting an elderly couple at an Arlington, Texas, shopping mall.
Brenda Jones Stafford (KDFW)
The alleged assault happened Feb. 19 (a Saturday) at The Parks at Arlington mall as Brenda Jones Stafford, a fifth-grade teacher, escorted several of her A.M. Pate Elementary students out on a school field trip.
An elderly couple — Carlton Morgan, 73, and his wife Bette Davis Morgan, 71 — were having coffee at the mall’s food court when Stafford approached them and tried to grab a chair Ms. Davis had her leg propped up on. Stafford claims she needed the chair for one of her students to use. But when Davis refused to let go of the chair, Stafford spit on Ms. Davis, pushed her and even tried to choke her. When Ms. Davis’ husband stepped in to try and stop the fight, Stafford pushed him down, hit him and tried to choke him as well.
The alleged assault incident is not the teacher’s first run-in with the law. In 1996, Stafford was indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault with bodily injury when she threatened a woman at gunpoint. Those charges, however, were later dismissed by prosecutors.
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Comments (87)
thejackal
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:16amMy God, Obama supporters are just running rampant. They think they are able to do whatever to YT now that B. Hussein Obama is prezident! I hope she gets the book. How does someone with a aggravated assualt conviction get a teaching job, hmmmm, I wonder…. NOT!
Report Post »IBLEEDREDWHITEANDBLUE
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:16am@blight14
Report Post »I still stand by my assessment of broad generalities. Race does not indicate character. God created us equal. What we do with it after that is our own responsibility. (novel idea, huh?) And yes, I am aware of the crime statistics and the prevalence of black rage in our country. But I am also a witness to three white teenage punks breaking in on an elderly white lady in my neighborhood and robbing her…and of a black family who offered comfort and support to the same woman when her husband passed away. Every race has them…good and bad.
Back to subject, this woman needs to lose her job. She is a loose cannon and should not be teaching children.
redneckgenius
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:15amevil…. animal….. and with children… had enough of this crap yet?
Report Post »poozak
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:59amNow here is a “Teachable Moment” if there ever was one. Since the background check failed to slow the career path, let us keep incidents like these in her “foreground check.” Next, stop her paycheck. Reality check? Sheesh. God save us all.
Report Post »Azmodious
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:55amAnother brilliant mind teaching the yoots of today? She’ll probably get a promotion. She’s an ignorant disgusting piece of crap that should be in jail.
Report Post »mdlwoods
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:48amAgain: Assault by a teacher, but not just a teacher, a black teacher. This is another assault from uncontrolled rage from a black person. What the heck? Whats going on here and what’s at the bottom of it? It can’t all be black rage at whites. Some of the recent black rage assaults have been against other blacks! And, in this case, to think this lady is a teacher? How many times has she come unglued on her students yet no one knows about it? Or, how many times has she come unglued on her students and the school was very aware of it but chose to sweep it under the rug? The TEA Party is violent, full of rage, could pull guns at any time and kill people. Yeah, right. Maybe the left needs to think about black rage and see what needs to be done to fix it!
Report Post »ImahaIngttta
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:46amI’m still trying to get past “the field trip to the mall” part???
Report Post »chkiaar
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:45amI’m telling you, this country is STUCK ON STUPID!!
And I hate to bring this up, but I will. Were the Morgan’s african-american or european-american? Was her class predominately african-american or european-american?
Can you say “HATE CRIME”?
Report Post »BruH
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:30amProtected class…good luck!
Report Post »conservativeme
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:23amWow! What a great example for our youth! The kids were encouraging her to stop! Maybe the cartoons have it right – the kids have the answers and the adults are the IDIOTS!
Report Post »catndahat
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:23amNotice how almost all union members take such textbook-perfect mugshots?
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:14amThe Athens Banner-Herald in Georgia reports that a shocking question was asked at a town hall event held by Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) on Tuesday. According to the article, an audience member asked the congressman, “Who is going to shoot Obama?”
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:24pmWho is going to pay 75.00 for fire coverage for one year? Who shot J.R.? Who shot Liberty Valance? Please pass the maple syrup. FAIL
Report Post »IBLEEDREDWHITEANDBLUE
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:11am(For the educated and particular, sorry about the poor typing. These little phones are impossible.)
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:09amAnd she is teaching children. Let’s all sing together, “Obama is our savior …”
Report Post »IBLEEDREDWHITEANDBLUE
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:02amSorry but I do not agree with your broad generalities of racial behavior.
Report Post »All races have their low life. This woman is a prime example.
Interesting to me that children that point their fingers and say ‘bang’ are a
menace to society. But a teacher can continue teaching after threatening
Someone with a real gun? Hmmmmmm.
Blight14
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:16amYour assessment of the ‘broad generalities’ is 100% WRONG……….But we may as well be attempting to convince you that the earth is spherical (or nearly so)……try this, review the DOJ (that would be the Department of Justice) and peruse their pesky data….
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on February 27, 2011 at 12:37pmQuite truthfully, I could care less what race or sex the teacher happened to be.
The point is that a teacher launched an unprovoked attack on an elderly couple who were peacefully sitting in a dining area of a mall. The students who were with the teacher knew it was wrong and actually had to intervene.
The above paragraph sums it up. The fact that she was a woman probably counts because the kids were able to pull her off and the couple survived the attack. How her race happens to factor in remains to be seen in whatever legal proceedings that follow. There are federally protected classes of people and she happens to belong to two of them.
I hope that the the elderly couple sue this woman from here to Kingdom Come and that owner of the mall sues , too. If I was the parent of child at that incident, I’d be furious and talking to my lawyer, also.
Report Post »WishWeWereFree
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:34amThis crazy woman was allowed to take 5th grade children on a field trip? Stories like this infuriate me because I wonder why no one stepped in to take this nut down after seeing her assault the elderly couple. If it was my parents who were assaulted, I’d want a piece of her.
Report Post »All evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
WolfGal
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:19amI guarantee you the folks where I live would have had her pinned on the ground at the first spit.
Report Post »theplumber
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:33am“In 1996, Stafford was indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault with bodily injury”…..hahaha. This jerk jababi should be teaching in prison.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:31amWhy is this criminal still in the classroom?????????????????????? Is she some one special and above the law?
Report Post »ThomasUSA
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:24amHey Texas Department of Education – Good background check you did there…
Why is this not all over the news as a White Hate Crime?
Where are you Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton? Oh.. that‘s right Blacks can’t be racists.
Report Post »You double standard hypocrites!
Rebel Maggie
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:03pmI agree. White HATE crime! Where’s the DOJ on this? Oh yeah, I forgot they are lapdogs for the Top Dog in the WH.
Report Post »dantom
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:23amNothing will be done gender race teacher nothing here.
Report Post »Blight14
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:14am100% true, sadly…………..But at least a few on the Blaze are paying attention…
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:20amAn example of why the teachers unions need to go…schools need to be able to fire people like this.
Report Post »pecopfc
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:19amUnion trash should be properly disposed of…………
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:18amTHIS is what is teaching our youngsters? Someone with that much inability to control themselves? Are you kidding me???
Report Post »Jesus the Righteous
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:27amHey, whadya want, you get what you pay for, right?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:45amNo, in this case ou get a whole lot less than you pay for!
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:10amAnd despite her record, she will be back in the classroom by fall. That’s my prediction. Sad, truly sad.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:06amWhat are the chances she’ll ever lose her job?
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:11amIf she is in the teachers union, zilch, zero, nada.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:13amI am afraid they are “slim to none” – http://wp.me/pYLB7-HB
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:14amNone…..protected by her gender, her color and her union…..the NEW American untouchable.
TurnRight
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:36amMaybe the elderly couple needs to civilly sue her and get her paycheck since she will probably be put in one of those “rubber room” where teachers still earn a paycheck yet don’t work another day in their life.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 8:37amProbably put her on “paid leave” while she serves time in jail.
Report Post »WolfGal
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:17amNo unions in my Home State of TX – just another reason we natives LOVE IT! That’s one bush she cannot hide behind.
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:39am@ WOLFGAL-that is true, teachers here in Texas have the option to join a union or not. They are not forced into it.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 9:48amFort Worth Independent School District, the district where Pate Elementary is located, ranks 734th of 897 Texas school districts. With teachers like this it’s no wonder why.
Report Post »jwind
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:16amI was also kinda wondering about a weekend field trip to … the MALL? Lots of great educational opportunites there. Maybe a self defense class? More appropriately a self offense class….?
Report Post »butler180
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:20amNever.
Report Post »Jesus the Righteous
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:22amShe has a Masters Degree on the way and an upgrade to Gym Teacher. Aye yi yi.
Report Post »Curioso
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:50amOOPS sa Daisy Texas has right to work law she will loose here job. Should have lost it after the first incident.
Report Post »martinezjosei2
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:05pmhempstead1944 said “None…..protected by her gender, her color and her union…..the NEW American untouchable.”
And if she is Muslim then the old pair is Islamaphobic and racist for defending themselves against her right to get what she wanted.
Report Post »terryhamilton
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 12:24pmIt is exactly situations like this that allow me to support Governor Walker’s Wisconsin attempt to break the public sector union. It should be done in all 50 states and the federal government as well. This person should never have been allowed to teach. She has a history of violence. Every teacher and every person dealing with people or the public in a public service job should be required to pass a phychological test before being hired. This women may never be fired because of the union. Get rid of these unions and people like this will be fired and not collecting their pay from our taxes.
Report Post »HoldingTheLineInTexas
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 3:46pmTeachers are employed by the School Districts here in Texas, not Public Sector Unions. Teachers are fired here for misconduct much more minor than this.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 7:05pmShe did not hit a child so she will probably get her teaching pay while she spends time in jail for this. I want to know how she ever got a teaching position with issues like she has. Good for her students!
Report Post »david3755
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 3:01pmWell she can be a teacher in the Texas prison system. She just won’t get to go home at the end of the day.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 4:54pm“Stafford’s students yelled at her, encouraging her to stop attacking Mr. Davis and managed to pull her off him. ”
The STUDENTS – HER STUDENTS had to stop their teacher from beating on Mr. Davis!
“In 1996, Stafford was indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault with bodily injury when she threatened a woman at gunpoint. Those charges, however, were later dismissed by prosecutors.”
If I was the parent of any child in her classes, I would either transfer my child to a private school or home school my child for the remainder of the school year. I would NOT let a child of mine near that woman. Aggravated assault !?! Charges dismissed or not, she pulled a gun on someone. Now she’s attacked two elderly people without provocation. Who is to know what will happen if some student mouths off to her and she starts beating on him or her? This woman is a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. If she is not fired and banned from the school grounds and she has another “incident”, I hope that the parents in the District ban together and sue the School Board from here to Kingdom Come for reckless child endangerment.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on February 27, 2011 at 2:38pmMaybe she can run for Alcee Hastings seat.
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