Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
The Orcutt Union School District has settled a lawsuit after a teacher allegedly hit and bullied a student.
The lawsuit alleges that in 2017, Orcutt Academy High School teacher Ty Fredriks punched a male student in the stomach, cursed at him, and called him an idiot while a group of students stood in a school field waiting to watch the solar eclipse, reports Cal Coast Times.
The school district, Fredricks, Principal Rhett Carter, and Assistant Superintendent Susan Salucci were named in the lawsuit, which alleges Fredricks had a history of bullying the student.
After school security camera footage of the alleged assault was shown to a judge, the district settled the case for $75,000. Fredriks is still teaching at Orcutt Academy, reports Cal Coast Times.
How on earth does this guy still have his job?
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Not surprising. What is surprising is that this doesn’t occur more often. Many kids now are despicably insolent, disruptive to class and show no respect. They know they’re protected by admin and parents. How some teachers keep their cool is beyond me.
Matty why do you need to see it? If the teacher punched the kid, there’s not justification for it, regardless of what the video shows.
I think there are other ways to discipline a student than punching him in the stomach. Physical violence is never acceptable.
@8:26 are you seriously defending, or at least excusing, child abuse??? It’s NEVER ok to beat a child. No matter how “insolent” they are, you do not hit children. Not only that, you don’t do it to adults either, it’s called “battery,” and it cannot be claimed as a defense against being “despicably insolent, disruptive to class.” Sick.