Girl, 15, accused of throwing chair that clobbered teacher in head, knocked her to floor, and sent her to hospital is arrested, charged with felonious assault



A 15-year-old girl accused of throwing a chair that clobbered a Michigan high school teacher in the head and knocked her to a classroom floor, resulting in the victim's hospitalization, has been arrested and charged with felonious assault, WJRT-TV reported.

What are the details?

Thursday's incident at Southwestern Classical Academy in Flint was captured on video, the station said.

The viral clip shows two female students yelling at each other, after which one of them picks up a desk chair and throws it, WJRT reported. The chair hits the teacher in the head, and the teacher falls the floor.

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Flint Police Chief Terence Green said the school resource officer was called to break up a fight between two female juniors and found the teacher lying on the floor with head injuries, the station said.

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Both students were arrested, and prosecutor David Leyton authorized two counts of felonious assault against the girl who threw the chair, WJRT said.

Flint Community Schools Superintendent Kevelin Jones said the teacher was released from the hospital the same day, is "doing well," and is expected to return to work, MLive said.

“The resilience and dedication displayed by this educator are truly commendable,” Jones wrote in a statement, according to the outlet.

Jones added that many students, fellow teachers, and members of the school community have been supporting the injured teacher, MLive added.

“They consider this teacher a hero, and we share in their sentiment,” Jones also wrote, the outlet added.

Jones told MLive the student who threw the chair will be held accountable according to the law and the Flint Community Schools Code of Conduct — although it's still unclear what discipline might be employed.

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Tom Bevan of RealClearPolitics says his 5th grader was given vocabulary words for science class including 'transgender' and 'nonbinary'



RealClearPolitics co-founder and president Tom Bevan said that his 5th-grade child was given vocabulary words for a science class that included the terms "transgender," "cisgender," "adolescence," "consent," and "nonbinary."

"Last night my 5th grader told us his vocabulary words for 'science' class this week," Bevan tweeted along with a list of the words.

Bevan followed up his initial tweet by posting a photo of a sheet of paper that contained the five vocabulary words, as well as definitions and examples of each word being used in a sentence.

While Bevan did not state the name of the school, he referred to "our district" when linking to an article on the Post Millennial that discussed District 65 in Illinois.

Last night my 5th grader told us his vocabulary words for "science" class this week: \n\nadolescence\nconsent\ntransgender\ncisgender\nnon-binary
— Tom Bevan (@Tom Bevan) 1646776639
BTW, there was a recent article by @libbyemmons in the Post Millennial detailing the full scope of the gender and race stuff being pushed on kids in our district starting in kindergarten.https://thepostmillennial.com/illinois-school-district-teaches-gender-and-race-propaganda-to-all-lower-grades\u00a0\u2026
— Tom Bevan (@Tom Bevan) 1646784651

"This is just awful and unacceptable. I hope you intervene," Tammy Bruce tweeted in response to Bevan.

"Rescue your child from that school!" Mollie Hemingway declared.

"Homeschool is a great option," Mercedes Schlapp wrote.

"What's amazing is how many people think Tom is lying (he provides evidence in next tweet) and are clearly not paying attention. Every subject has become a lesson in wokeness. All of them," Karol Markowicz tweeted.

Many parents deeply oppose radical leftist gender ideology that flies in the face of biological reality and do not want their children exposed to that ideology at school.

What's amazing is how many people think Tom is lying (he provides evidence in next tweet) and are clearly not paying attention. Every subject has become a lesson in wokeness. All of them.https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1501316158506496003\u00a0\u2026
— Karol Markowicz (@Karol Markowicz) 1646793244

Joy Behar has already been caught maskless in public after saying she would stay masked indefinitely



"The View" co-host Joy Behar was caught sans mask after vehemently claiming that she would remain masked even if health officials eased their social distancing guidelines.

Behar told co-hosts that she didn't feel safe in public and would continue masking up despite reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was considering easing up on mask restrictions.

According to photographs obtained by Libby Emmons of the Post Millennial, Behar appears to feel perfectly safe unmasking in public with her friends at a restaurant.

Joy Behar said she was going to mask in public places "indefinitely" because it's just not safe. Except for last night out at this restaurant, apparently.

I hear that she also walked out of the restaurant unmasked, though her companions dutifully donned theirs. pic.twitter.com/bXO1lTUiGm
— libby emmons (@libbyemmons) February 18, 2022

Emmons reported that Behar also walked out of the restaurant without a mask even as her companions masked up, as per CDC guidelines.

The women of "The View" were commenting on the CDC reviewing mask guidelines in the light of coronavirus cases plummeting when Behar said she listens to voices in her head.

"Personally, I listen to the little voice in my head that doesn't really follow a hundred percent what they tell me because they keep changing it," she said.

"So like, a very short time ago they were saying put the N95 masks on, make sure it's on, and now they're saying you don't have to wear them anymore," she explained helpfully. "So if I go on the subway, if I go in a bus, if I go into the theater, if I go into, where else would I go? A crowded place, I would wear a mask, and I might do that indefinitely."

While CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the CDC may lessen mask restrictions, Dr. Anthony Fauci was far more cautious. Fauci said that it would be risky to ease up on mask restrictions for children and cautioned that there's always the chance of a new variant emerging.

Here's the video of Behar's comments:

CDC Expected to Relax Mask Mandates | The Viewwww.youtube.com

Washington public school requires student-athletes to wear ankle monitors to ensure social distancing, track COVID-19 outbreaks



Eatonville High School in Eatonville, Washington, is reportedly requiring its student-athletes to wear ankle monitors as a condition of participating in team sports, the Post Millennial reported.

What are the details?

One unnamed mother told the Post Millennial that her daughter had only just arrived at volleyball team practice when she received a text message revealing that the team coach was asking her child to put on an ankle monitor.

"The teen did not answer the mother's follow up texts or calls," the outlet's Ari Hoffmann wrote. "The mother assumed she was playing during practice and attempted to contact the school via phone. No one at the school was able to answer her questions about the monitor, so she drove to the building."

When she arrived at the school, the mother said that she encountered an employee in the school office, who reportedly told her that there was a meeting held the previous week discussing the "ankle monitoring program."

The program, the staffer reportedly told the mother, was intended for contact tracing in the event of any student's positive COVID-19 test.

The coach also reportedly told the mother that use of the device was intended to inform players when they were not distanced enough, and was only reportedly intended for use at indoor practice. The coach also added that the school reportedly handed out opt-out forms during the previous week's meeting, but the unnamed mom said that she never received any such forms, nor was she ever made aware of such a program.

According to the outlet, the device used by the school was reportedly manufactured by a company called Triax. The company website states that the monitoring bracelet was conceived in order to maintain social distancing guidelines. The device, according to the outlet, provides a "visual and audible alarm" so that any individual, who may come into unnecessarily close contact with another person, will "know when to adjust their current distance to a proper social distance."

EXCLUSIVE: Washington public school forces unvaccinated teens to wear ankle monitors@thehoffather for… https://t.co/J9LlmWFljJ

— libby emmons (@libbyemmons) 1629811936.0

The devices, according to the outlet, were not mentioned in the school's updated 2021-22 school year policies.

Parent Jason Ostendorf is also angry over the practice.

He told the News Tribune that students have enough to deal with these days amid a global pandemic.

"It's just one more thing they're doing to the kids through this whole COVID thing," he insisted. "The vaccine, now be tracked when you're at practice. Where does this end? I feel like this is an experiment on our kids to see how much we can put them through before they start breaking."

Ostendorf added that he was told if he refused to sign the permission slip, his children would not be permitted to play on team sports.

"My son has played football since he was in third grade," he said. "He's passionate about the sport. ... I signed it reluctantly. It's either that or he doesn't play. ... It's not optional. If you don't sign the waiver, they don't get to play. You have no choice in the matter. ... Above all, they're putting tracking devices on my kid."

What now?

In a statement to the Post Millennial, school board director Matt Marshall told the outlet that the school has decided to stop using the devices "until proper procedures including community input and board approval process occur."

Eatonville School District Superintendent Gary Neal also spoke out about the controversy and said that the monitors were not intended to segregate the student population.

"We received grant funding (known as ESSER III) that specifically included provisions to support higher-risk athletic programs, and we used some of those funds to pay for athletic proximity monitors," Neal said.

"We are using these monitors for high contact and moderate indoor contact sports. The monitors are for both staff (coaches) and students on the field, regardless if they are vaccinated or unvaccinated. If a student or coach tests positive, we will have immediate information regarding athletes' and coaches' contacts, so we can more tightly determine who might need to quarantine," he continued, sharing the same language posted on the school's online FAQ page.

A spokesperson for the district told the Daily Dot that the program is "entirely opt-in" and requires signed permission slips from parents and that monitors are for vaccinated and unvaccinated students alike.