Teachers at North Carolina high school where student slapped tutor twice in ... trends now
Teachers at a North Carolina high school where an educator was slapped twice by a student have said rampant violence is the norm at the campus.
A teen student was arrested earlier this week after a classmate filmed the profanity-laden physical attack at Parkland High School.
Kisha Wall-Freeman, a former teacher at the North Salem school, shared that student aggression is nothing new at the magnet school.
'I did see it coming. That's the way things have been progressing for quite some time now,' Wall-Freeman told WFMY.
The teacher, who began working at Parkland in 2012, said she did not fear the students or felt threatened at first.
Kisha Wall-Freeman, a former teacher at the North Salem school, shared that student aggression is nothing new at the magnet school
Phones are whipped out at Parkland High School in North Carolina as the student attacks his teacher in class, towering over her and landing a series of blows
The middle-aged teacher sits impassively as the student punches her in the face again, sending her glasses flying from her face
But things took a turn over the years, as administrators tweaked the ways students were disciplined.
'They hear the cussing and the bad language from their parents as well,' Wall-Freeman said.
'And I have seen that get progressively worse, even just going through the stores or being in the malls, I hear it... I see it, and it wasn't like that, not even 10 years ago.'
Kayleigh Connell, who spent 11 years teaching in elementary schools in the Greenville area, said she left education following a terrifying experience.
'I ended up in Urgent Care with a concussion because a student got upset and lashed out,' Connell told the local outlet.
She added: 'At the worst point for me, I would say 80 percent of my day on average was spent trying to manage behaviors.'
Connell said that students' behavior got out of hand when
