Video of fight involving teacher at DeKalb school being used in investigation

The Dekalb County Schools Superintendent responded Tuesday to a video of students warring a teacher that has gone viral.

The combat happened April 22 astatine Martin Luther King Junior High School.

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The superintendent said determination was a verbal altercation earlier what was seen successful the video and an effort to interruption up a disagreement, Channel 2’s Candace McCowan reported.

The camera picks up what happened next, and it is present being utilized successful the investigation.

You tin spot the teacher being punched, others trying to interruption it up and past different swings from students and the teacher himself.

Three students person been charged with artillery and disrupting nationalist school. The teacher is connected administrative permission during the investigation.

Superintendent Devon Horton and Principal Michael Alexander laid retired what they are doing to forestall fights similar this one, similar mentors and de-escalation training.

Horton spoke astir the 3 students who are present facing charges.

“I don’t enactment them being criminalized. I bash not,” helium said. “Every pupil deserves an opportunity, right? And I volition accidental they are immoderate factors that we are alert of that could person prevented this, and truthful we are looking into that close now.”

One of the students progressive conscionable moved to the territory a period ago. He wasn’t successful the mentoring program.

There were parents person raised questions astir the incident, acrophobic astir what they saw and what they privation to spot happen.

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