Enraged Mom Assaults Son's Kindergarten Teacher

[redheadbaker]

Someone on my FB feed posted this. 

dailycaller.com/2013/09/07/enraged-mom-beats-the-crap-out-of-kindergarten-teacher/

The mother of a kindergarten boy in Kansas City received a citation for criminal assault because, police say, she inflicted a vicious beatdown on the boy’s teacher.

The pummeling occurred on Thursday night at Truman Elementary School. Simone A. Baker, 24, allegedly entered the school and proceeded directly to the unidentified teacher’s classroom at about 6 p.m., reports The Kansas City Star.

She said, “You better not touch my kid again.” She punched the teacher, 49, upside the head five to 10 times. Next, narrates a police report, Baker jerked the teacher out of her chair by the hair. Then, for good measure, Baker smashed the teacher’s head against a filing cabinet—twice.

Baker’s next move was to run swiftly out of the classroom and out of the school building

There were no students in the classroom when the incident occurred.

On the way to the classroom, Baker ran right by the school principal, whom she had called just moments earlier as she was on her way to the school. The principal gathered a posse and headed to the classroom, arriving just after the altercation ended.

Baker had a motive. Earlier in the day, her six-year-old son had come home with a scratch on his neck. He apparently told his mother that the teacher caused it when she had punished him for something during the school day.

Hickman Mills School District officials told local NBC affiliate KSHB that something did, in fact, happen between the kindergarten teacher and the student, but they provided no additional details.

On Friday, notes The Star, the boy told police and school officials that the teacher didn’t hurt him.

A roving KSHB reporter interviewed a couple of veritable moms on the street to get a bead on neighborhood opinion.

“If you’re not going to stand up for your child, who is?” asked one mom wearing a skull-design t-shirt.

Another mom in a Chiefs jersey disagreed.

“No words. Who does that?” she asked. “I mean, I love my kids to death but you got to take yourself out of the situation and act like an adult.”

A school district spokeswoman told The Star that the teacher got checked out at a hospital after the attack. She was released with little ado.

The spokeswoman added that the district intends to prosecute Baker to “the fullest extent of the law.”

[bugandbibs]

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

[Velar Fricative]

Holy overreaction Batman.

[simplyinpenguin]

Sept 8, 2013 17:47:12 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

More like trying to find "both sides" of the opinion by asking two women, representing 2 symbols of violence (the skull and the NFL), what they thought of it. I wondered that if the Chiefs mom was for it, then this story would've turned in to "how violence correlates with women's clothing"?

[NitaX]

Sept 8, 2013 17:47:12 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

To clearly show the need to ban skull and crossbones attire. 

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 8, 2013 18:21:33 GMT -5 NitaX said:

Sept 8, 2013 17:47:12 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

To clearly show the need to ban skull and crossbones attire. 

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[vanillacourage]

Sept 8, 2013 18:18:28 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

I wish I had never scrolled down to read the comments on this story. I hate people sometimes.

"Now MARRIAGE, that would have prevented this wild dingo woman of a human from acting like she did."

OMG. Ugh.

[sandsonik]

Sept 8, 2013 17:47:12 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

I think it's because this was originally aired as a televised news story.  Whoever does the transcripts for the site's written stories took their job a bit literally.

[mrslefty]

Last year I turned and accidentally elbowed a kid in the forehead. I felt so bad and called his parents as soon as school was out because I could just imagine him going home and telling his parents I had hit him. My students are just at the wrong height and always seem to need to stand thisclose behind me when they need something. This is my nightmare people!

[vanillacourage]

I have to say that (obviously!) while there is no excuse for her behavior, I would be upset if my kid came home from school with an unexplained injury. I would call up to the school to inquire though, rather than jump right to batshit.

[lilibet]

Sept 8, 2013 17:47:12 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

Because the skull shirt means she's a violent heathen.

You would think an adult would at least try to get both sides of the story instead of relying solely on what their kindergartener tells them. And, you know, not beat up a person....

[msmerymac]

Sept 8, 2013 17:47:12 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

For the Lols. Skull and crossbone t-shirt?  (huh)


Um, yeah, and we wonder why kids are told "just hit back if someone disrespects you!"

[SusanBAnthony]

Well, my kindergartener reported that an ADULT STOLE HIS COOKIE AT LUNCH.

Ends up they threw it away because he dropped it on the floor.

2 sides to every story. Or possibly even more sides if some of them are coming from the mouth of a five year old.

[Deleted]

Sept 8, 2013 19:44:56 GMT -5 sandsonik said:

Sept 8, 2013 17:47:12 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I'm puzzled as to why they needed to describe the clothes of the women quoted in the story.

I think it's because this was originally aired as a televised news story.  Whoever does the transcripts for the site's written stories took their job a bit literally.

Ah, maybe that explains it. I was distracted by the unprofessional style of the piece. "Hit her upside the head" and "gathered a posse" don't strike me as overly journalistic.

ETA: I missed that paragraph. All this over a scratch? Wow.

[speckledfrog]

Sept 8, 2013 19:48:02 GMT -5 mrslefty said:

Last year I turned and accidentally elbowed a kid in the forehead. I felt so bad and called his parents as soon as school was out because I could just imagine him going home and telling his parents I had hit him. My students are just at the wrong height and always seem to need to stand thisclose behind me when they need something. This is my nightmare people!

I've elbowed a kid, too.  I also gave one kiddo a large scratch above his eyebrow with my ering when I suddenly gestured with my hands as he unexpectedly walked up behind me.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Sept 8, 2013 20:09:44 GMT -5 @vanessadoof said:

Sept 8, 2013 19:44:56 GMT -5 sandsonik said:

I think it's because this was originally aired as a televised news story.  Whoever does the transcripts for the site's written stories took their job a bit literally.

Ah, maybe that explains it. I was distracted by the unprofessional style of the piece. "Hit her upside the head" and "gathered a posse" don't strike me as overly journalistic.

ETA: I missed that paragraph. All this over a scratch? Wow.

Well, it is the Daily Caller.... and the headline is "Enraged Mom Beats the Crap out of Kindergarten Teacher." This ain't the New York Times. 

[Deleted]

Sept 8, 2013 22:08:24 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

Sept 8, 2013 19:48:02 GMT -5 mrslefty said:

Last year I turned and accidentally elbowed a kid in the forehead. I felt so bad and called his parents as soon as school was out because I could just imagine him going home and telling his parents I had hit him. My students are just at the wrong height and always seem to need to stand thisclose behind me when they need something. This is my nightmare people!

I've elbowed a kid, too.  I also gave one kiddo a large scratch above his eyebrow with my ering when I suddenly gestured with my hands as he unexpectedly walked up behind me.

I sort of wondered if something like this is what happened. 

[IIOY]

Sept 8, 2013 19:48:02 GMT -5 mrslefty said:

Last year I turned and accidentally elbowed a kid in the forehead. I felt so bad and called his parents as soon as school was out because I could just imagine him going home and telling his parents I had hit him. My students are just at the wrong height and always seem to need to stand thisclose behind me when they need something. This is my nightmare people!

LOL I feel as though I'm constantly accidentally harming my children because they are just the "wrong" height and they are always underfoot. They will walk up behind me in the kitchen when I am doing something and stand two inches away from me without announcing their presence. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

[marissa]

My first year teaching there was a 1st grade teacher beat up by a mom and grandma during the school day. Poor teacher had a class filled with 1st grade babies and a co-teacher; the co-teacher got the class out and ran to the principals office.

[Alyssa]

"“If you’re not going to stand up for your child, who is?” asked one mom wearing a skull-design t-shirt.

Another mom in a Chiefs jersey disagreed."



What's with the clothing descriptions?  How is that relevant.