Earlier this week, we shared a report of a North Texas substitute teacher being fired after she was accused of encouraging students to fight each other in her classroom. That teacher has now been identified as 24-year-old Natally Garcia, of Dallas, and she has been hit with four charges.
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On Monday (April 17), police in Mesquite, Texas say Natally Garcia turned herself in, and she now faces four counts of endangering a child for the incident at R.S. Kimbrough Middle School.
It is reported that as of March 6, 2023, Garcia was an employee of the Mesquite Independent School District, and the district adds that the incident in question occurred on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
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MISD says they immediately conducted an investigation and they decided to terminate her on Thursday, April 13.
In the same statement released, the MISD said, “[Garcia] encouraged students to fight each other during class, outlined rules for the students to follow and even instructed a student to monitor the classroom door while the fights took place.”
An accompanying video has since surfaced as well. It showed Garcia telling students not to record the fights and to guard the door. She said, “What I need you to do is stand by that door and hold it in case somebody comes in.”
Two separate fights are seen on a video: one between two girls and another one between two boys. The students are seen throwing punches at one another.
Fortunately, there were no major injuries reported with the students, aged 12 and 13-year-old. MISD claims they also notified police about Garcia and the fights. They added, “Her actions are appalling and intolerable. We share the disgust that the families of students in this class must feel.”
Meanwhile, Mesquite Police Department Lieutenant Brandon Ricketts claims that there is no prior evidence showing that Garcia has organized students fight before the incident on April 12. He added, “[Garcia was] definitely trying to conceal her actions and actions that were going on in the class.”
Elsewhere, the mother of the student who recorded the video of the fights, Betty Martinez, said, “I saw the video, I paused it multiple times because I was in utter disbelief. I thought it was a joke. I didn’t think it was real. My brain couldn’t comprehend what was going on, right? I do not want this on record.”
Martinez added, “What you did was very disgusting and I wanted to make it clear. My daughter did not ruin your reputation as a substitute, as a teacher — she did not ruin your career. You ruined your own career.”
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