A video was captured when a Tennessee student pepper sprayed her teacher twice after he confiscated her cell phone during class.
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The incident occurred Friday during classes at Antioch High School. According to the New York Post, the female student allegedly used her phone for “texting and Googling answers for her schoolwork,” said Reddit user @Lazy_Mouse3803. The post also said the same teacher was attacked two months ago for taking a student’s phone during a test.
Imagine being so entitled you would use pepper spray on your teacher. What a brat.
pic.twitter.com/n42T5e2ygD— AlphaFox (@Alphafox78) May 6, 2023
“Girl pepper sprays teacher because he took her from her in Antioch, TN. This same teacher two months ago got punched in the face by a different student for taking a kid’s phone [for] cheating on a test with it,” the post caption reads. The video shows other students laughing and joking before following the female student and teacher into the hallway, where she attempts to get the phone.
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The teacher could be heard explaining to someone else that the female student just pepper-sprayed him, and she followed him out of the classroom and then pepper-sprayed him for the second time, causing him to yell and fall to his knees. Another adult intervenes and attempts to de-escalate the situation, but the student still demands that her phone be returned.
After the viral video on Twitter, various debates defended the student’s actions or felt sorry for the teacher. One user wrote, “Teachers need to stop taking things they don’t pay for away from kids if they ain’t give it to them, all they have to do is call a dean or principal and get the child removed from the class teachers be tryna flex they muscle a little too much IMO.”
Another wrote, “Teacher here. If we call an administrator for everything, we will be accused of not having classroom management, which could result in us being written up and having bad evaluations.”
Teach your children to stay off ALL electronics while in the classroom, unless they need it for the lesson. Damn, half of yall got thru school w/ a phone attached to the wall back at the house!
— Dana Y Banks (@DanaYBanks1) May 8, 2023
I agree with the teacher, and you wonder why these students get bullied sometimes. You can’t read, can’t spell properly, can’t form complete sentences, can’t develop basic math skills.
When the teacher calls on them to answer the question, they want to start showing out.…
— SoloSunRize (@SoloSunRize) May 7, 2023
Honestly having pepper spray on school campus is the real violation and tbh from my perspective she looks like she has issues following the rules. Regardless of whether the phone was out she still had pepper spray… she violated a rule regardless
— MPH Shordie✨ (@Glitterthetrack) May 8, 2023
Teachers are already changing careers due to this. I know quite a few that realized it’s now a lost cause. These kids are different and the parents are to blame.
— Blexis Blexriguez (@TheBlexican) May 8, 2023