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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno Unified School District teacher is speaking retired aft she says she and 1 of her students were attacked successful her schoolroom earlier this month.
McLane High School teacher Alison Mattox claims, that connected Oct. 3, 1 of her students and their big comparative walked into her schoolroom and attacked different student.
“I got successful betwixt the 2 students to halt the fight, but the bullying pupil started swinging and hitting some the unfortunate and myself,” Martin said.
Mattox says they gave her a concussion.
Fresno Unified Teachers Association President Manuel Bonilla says students and teachers merit better.
The combat was not a surprise, though.
Mattox says the unfortunate had been sending her screenshots of the bullying student’s threats for 2 weeks starring up to the attack.
She says she took the screenshots to a schoolhouse counsellor who agreed the bullying pupil should beryllium suspended from cheer practice.
However, Mattox claims the bullying student’s ma refused to fto her miss practice.
So Mattox says she took the contented to the Principal and Vice Principal but was told to enforce “restorative practices” betwixt the bullying pupil and the victim, alternatively than usage disciplinary measures.
“Instead of offering support, everything was enactment backmost onto me… They person been alert of these issues from the commencement and thing should person happened and they should person stepped in,” Mattox said.
She says the students held a “restorative circle” to speech things out. It was seemingly ineffective.
She says the adjacent day, Oct. 3, the unfortunate and respective different students sat successful her schoolroom during lunch.
Mattox says that’s erstwhile the bullying pupil and their middle-aged comparative walked successful and started attacking the victim.
“In the struggle, the big comparative was hitting maine arsenic well, pulling my hair. Unable to clasp connected immoderate longer owed to the assault, I fto spell of the bullying pupil and some her and her big comparative chased the unfortunate down the hallway,” Mattox said.
She says she called for security, but claims the bullying pupil and the big were gone earlier anyone caught them.
She does not judge that an big has been arrested oregon cited since.
Bonilla says helium considers this particularly frustrating aft determination was a shooting adjacent the schoolhouse this year.
“Could you ideate the information that somebody, an big relative, was capable to spell onto a field that should person been unafraid during luncheon time, was capable to battle a teacher and a pupil and capable to past permission and not beryllium apprehended,” Bonilla said.
He says the schoolhouse should person been connected precocious alert.
Yourcentralvalley.com reached retired to FUSD for remark but did not perceive back.
“All of our students merit a harmless space. All of our teachers merit a harmless space. And that's evidently not happening. And this is conscionable 1 illustration of it,” Bonilla said.
They promote parents to be schoolhouse committee meetings to advocator for stricter information policies and are talking to lawyers astir their adjacent steps.
