6 Year Old Demon Child Beats up 220-pound Gym Teacher

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/nyc-gym-teacher-claims-6-old-student-beat-195314203.html

At 5-foot-10 and 220 pounds, gym teacher John Webster is not a slight figure. But the former college football player claims a 50-pound, 6-year-old student physically assaulted him and sent him into therapy.

The New York Post reports that Webster fractured his ankle and injured his knee, all at the hands of 4-foot-2 Rodrigo Carpio. Walker says he now has to wear a brace on his right leg.

"It's sort of like an angel-devil sort of thing," Webster, 27, said of Rodrigo. The boy "looks like an angel, but then, all of a sudden, that halo turns into horns. It's been a nightmare. It's embarrassing. It's humiliating."

And there's reportedly more than just the incident with Webster. Rodrigo, a first-grader at PS 330 in Queens, also allegedly kicked the school principal and pinched several other individuals, including a school security officer.

Webster told the Post that the confrontation started when he was escorting several students to the school cafeteria.

"I tried to hold his wrists, and he began biting me,'' Webster said. "I took him to the principal's office, and he kicked me in the ankle, and one kick landed right on my knee. I felt a pop.''

Lawyer Andrew Siben, who is representing Webster, described Rodrigo as a "tiny terror."

"It's sad that teachers like Mr. Webster are not offered protection from someone who can endanger other teachers and students," Siben told the paper.

However, Rodrigo's parents say the allegations are ridiculous.

"The lawsuit is totally absurd," said the boy's father, Jorge Carpio, 44. "How could my little boy do so much damage?"

"This is a terrible thing to say [about] a child," said his mom, Josefa Marcia.

Anyone wanna bet the kid made his parents say that? haermm

My half-brother is seven years old and he couldn't hurt me with baseball bat, and I'm 132 lbs.

Teachers can't lay a finger on kids or they lose their career. Apparently the kid got a lucky kick in and the guy's knee popped. If the teacher had fought back, the kid would be dead.

The parents could whup the **** out of him if they wanted to. And they might, given his disposition. Still, their response is telling. Teachers have better things to do than make up stories of assault.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing that the gym teacher couldn't overpower the kid if he put any kind of effort into it.

Hell, he wouldn't even need to hit him--if he were to sit on him the kid couldn't do a thing.

5'10" and 220lbs? That's a fatass right there, knee was probably just waiting for a light breeze to come by and make it pop out.

Originally posted by Robtard
5'10" and 220lbs? That's a fatass right there, knee was probably just waiting for a light breeze to come by and make it pop out.

If he has a naturally heavy build then he might only be 10-20 lbs overweight.

Originally posted by Astner
My half-brother is seven years old and he couldn't hurt me with baseball bat, and I'm 132 lbs.

Does your half-brother have a serious medical problem?

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Yeah, I have a hard time believing that the gym teacher couldn't overpower the kid if he put any kind of effort into it.

His options were:
Don't defend himself.
Lose his job.

Anything he did to overpower the kid risked his job. The "taking him by the wrists" part was already pushing it.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Does your half-brother have a serious medical problem?

Originally posted by Robtard
5'10" and 220lbs? That's a fatass right there, knee was probably just waiting for a light breeze to come by and make it pop out.

Looking at the gym teacher's picture, he appears to be a man with a naturally large build, only a little overweight if that.

Why the shit would this man lie about a kid injuring his knee? Something that humiliating isn't something you lie about.

Originally posted by Robtard
5'10" and 220lbs? That's a fatass right there,

Those are my dimensions and I'm not a fatass. 😐

Originally posted by Astner
Actually, it was I who asked him to hit me. I was curious as to how strong the kid was.

That's just weird, man.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Why the shit would this man lie about a kid injuring his knee? Something that humiliating isn't something you lie about.

This. Especially because he was a football player in his state...machoism is a big deal where he is especially in football. I could be generalizing and I do not know the dude...but it seems more likely that he is being genuine and feels terrorized by a child he cannot do anything about.

Hope the kid gets help. He needs discipline and therapy, it seems.

Originally posted by dadudemon
That's just weird, man.

Originally posted by Astner
Just because I embarrassed you in the anime thread doesn't mean that you have to quote my replies in every single thread.

This is a little weird, too.

Originally posted by Digi
Teachers can't lay a finger on kids or they lose their career. Apparently the kid got a lucky kick in and the guy's knee popped. If the teacher had fought back, the kid would be dead.

The parents could whup the **** out of him if they wanted to. And they might, given his disposition. Still, their response is telling. Teachers have better things to do than make up stories of assault.

Good choice of words. You literally can not lay a finger on a student, say to wake them up if they fall asleep in class, cuz even that is considered corporal punishment.

On the other side of the coin, the child should be evaluated, which may very well also necessitate an evaluation of the home situation. I had a case last year where Mom was seeking residential placement for her son because he was not only disruptive in school but even worse at home. Turned out that 1) the kid was fine in school when he took his meds; and 2) Mom was looking to get rid of her son so she could have a peaceful new life with her new husband. My psycho-educational eval (as well as prior psychiatrics) revealed that the kid was acting out largely in reaction to how he was being treated at home: he had become the "scapegoat" for all the family's ills (including "being responsible" for the behavior of his deadbeat bio-dad). At one point, the Administration of Child Services had to temporarily place the student in foster care for his own protection.

Long story short: my conclusion was that the student was already properly placed (residential placement was not warranted, not by a long shot), and that the family should seek therapy. Mom went ballistic but too bad. Be a parent, not a child disposal agent.

What the **** are you talking about? Teachers are allowed to grab and restrict the children.

"A parent is not allowed to hit/smack/slap someone else’s child. A teacher is not allowed to hit/smack/slap a student. An uncle or aunt cannot hit/smack/slap their niece or nephew – at least not without the consent of the child’s parents." - Source

Originally posted by Mindship
Right on.

Good choice of words. You [B]literally can not lay a finger on a student, say to wake them up if they fall asleep in class, cuz even that is considered corporal punishment.

On the other side of the coin, the child should be evaluated, which may very well also necessitate an evaluation of the home situation. I had a case last year where Mom was seeking residential placement for her son because he was not only disruptive in school but even worse at home. Turned out that 1) the kid was fine in school when he took his meds; and 2) Mom was looking to get rid of her son so she could have a peaceful new life with her new husband. My psycho-educational eval (as well as prior psychiatrics) revealed that the kid was acting out largely in reaction to how he was being treated at home: he had become the "scapegoat" for all the family's ills (including "being responsible" for the behavior of his deadbeat bio-dad). At one point, the Administration of Child Services had to temporarily place the student in foster care for his own protection.

Long story short: my conclusion was that the student was already properly placed (residential placement was not warranted, not by a long shot), and that the family should seek therapy. Mom went ballistic but too bad. Be a parent, not a child disposal agent. [/B]

You can't wake up a kid if he/she falls asleep in class? Wtf?

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
You can't wake up a kid if he/she falls asleep in class? Wtf?

I think there's some sort of acceptable limit. When I taught, I smacked sleeping kids on the head lightly - legally or not I suppose - to wake them.

Though it was much more fun to slam a book onto their desk. Much more startling, and you don't touch them. 313

In any case, Mindship may have taken the idea too far, but the principle holds true: if that teacher fights back, he's out of a job and the story is much different in the media. Ask any teacher - literally the only indicator you need to know about what the kid will be like i school is "what are the parents like?" Do they have discipline at home? They'll be fine in school. Care about grades? The kid will be a 3.0, minimum. With insanely few exceptions, anything else is almost superfluous.

Originally posted by Astner
What the **** are you talking about? Teachers are allowed to grab and restrict the children.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
You can't wake up a kid if he/she falls asleep in class? Wtf?

In NYC, teachers are allowed to touch a student only to defend themselves or others or protect school property, and only as a last resort (ie, if talking does not de-escalate the situation). That's it. And you better have witnesses on hand because if the child makes a competing claim (eg, the teacher started it), the political climate is such that the teacher is, in effect, guilty til proven innocent (what makes this worse is when the news reports alleged sexual misconduct prior to due process findings). In the interim -- while due process occurs -- lives are disrupted, reputations ruined, and you don't want a principal with "administrative upward mobility" in mind on your back because you made his/her school "look bad."

Even a friendly touch on a student's shoulder can land a teacher in hot water if the child is a dick and wants to make trouble. Over the years I have been told more than once by supervisors not even to shake hands with a student if no one else is around. It's that bad (I still shook hands anyway, given that the positive message inherent outweighs the slight chance the student will want to cry wolf).

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Fight!

Originally posted by Astner
What the **** are you talking about? Teachers are allowed to grab and restrict the children.

That seems to be at a national level, there could easily be local laws and individual school policies regarding teacher's right. Also that's Australia.

Meanwhile in the civilized world my mother was reprimanded by her principal for touching a sobbing child on the shoulder. People get very litigious about their kids and schools don't want to take any risks.

I would have beat that kid into his next life.