My God, I’m still shaking after watching this video, of a 116-lb, 15-year-old student being tackled and thrown across tables, chairs and repeatedly slammed to the floor by a hulking, 300 lb teacher for walking into his Brooklyn school without being properly cleared for entry. A newspaper story and video of George Westinghouse Career and [...]
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