Age-a-licious

Am I the only one who would've loved to see this when I was in school?


MACON, Georgia - A teacher-parent brawl in front of 19 primary school pupils sent a mother to the emergency room and the teacher to jail.

Teacher Katrina Ann Rucker, 30, is charged with battery and cruelty to children for allegedly beating a parent who tried to retrieve her daughter's book bag, The Macon Telegraph newspaper reported Friday.

According to police interviews, parent Lurella Amica went to Bruce-Weir
Elementary School Thursday morning to deliver a note to her 9-year-old daughter.

At the classroom door, the girl told her mother that Rucker had thrown her bag in the trash can, the report stated. Amica entered the classroom and tried to get the book bag, but Rucker grabbed for it and the two struggled, the report said.

After Amica wrestled the bag away, police say Rucker picked up a chair and hit her in the back, knocking Amica to the floor. Rucker then began punching Amica in the face and body.

During the fight, the girl was reportedly crying for her teacher to stop hitting her mother and ran up to them. Rucker then allegedly hit the child, pulled her hair and pushed her out of the way before starting to strike the mother again.

Rucker dragged Amica by the hair outside the classroom, according to the report.

"A school administrator and another teacher had to pull the teacher off the mother," Macon police spokeswoman Melanie Hofmann said.

In Rucker's account of the story, she said Amica hit her hand during the initial struggle, Hofmann said.

"The teacher said she was defending herself because she gets a shot in that hand and it hurt," Hofmann said.

Amica was in stable condition in the emergency room of The Medical Center of Central Georgia late Thursday night.

Rucker was placed on administrative leave.

Sylvia McGee, Bibb County's deputy superintendent, said school staff called the parent or guardian of each child in the class. Social workers counseled students, and only Amica's daughter left school early.

Principal Karen Konke sent letters to parents about the incident.

"Let me assure you the school is safe and that our students have been involved in appropriate instructional activities throughout the day,"

Konke wrote.

Bibb County Elementary teacher accused of beating up a parent with a chair, and pulling the hair of a student appears before a judge.

According to a Macon Police incident report obtained by Fox-24 News, 30-year-old Katrina Rucker was taken into custody on Thursday and booked on charges of battery and cruelty to a child.

On Friday, Rucker appeared in Bibb County Magistrate Court where she was given a $4,100 dollar bond that she must post to be released.

When school police arrived they say that Rucker had Amica pinned down on the ground and was beating her with both fists, and they had to pull her off to subdue her.

Lurella Amica was then taken to the Macon Medical Center to have x-rays taken of her face, and medical reports show that Amica suffered a broken nose, a possible fractured skull, multiple contusions of the face, and eye hemorrhages.

The Bibb County School Board has placed Rucker on unpaid leave until the criminal charges are settled in court

Jerry D

Oh man! Was it a classroom that happened in, or the Jerry Springer show? That teacher should never be around students again.

roswellain_chick16

Not at all!
Seems such a HUGE fight to have over a school bag CRAZY!!

Age-a-licious

What I'm wondering is...why did the teacher throw the bag away in the first place? Was it the wrong color?

In Fair Verona

Wow. How does one become a teacher when her maturity level is even lower than that of her students?

Wild Pikachu

Uh, this is a very old story. In fact, there was a thread about it on this board when it happened last October.

Hot Like Fire

That teacher is crazy

Ambular

I wonder how long she had been teaching there?

-Kelly-

This person shouldn't work with kids

Lain

Jeez...it's not like the bag was filled with crack and cocaine. Oh wait, that could have been the teacher's and she could have been hiding it in the kid's bag

Ok...i could be wrong.