Just Do It

Teacher Says 'Just Do it', Student is Beaten

The severe beating of a student at L'Anse Creuse Middle School East has the boy's parents demanding punishment for a teacher they say encouraged the attack.

Six students have been punished for the beating, which left the boy with contusions and a concussion. But his parents want a teacher to answer for these words they say she uttered in a classroom full of students:

"If you're going to fight, just do it right now and I'll walk away and come back when it's done. ... Just knock his teeth out and be done with it."

A spokeswoman for the L'Anse Creuse schools tells Action News the teacher admits to saying, "If you're going to fight just do it right now." But the spokeswoman says the statement was made in "frustration" and was "not made to encourage any fighting."

Body Slam

Substitute Teacher Arrested In Hartford

A substitute teacher at Weaver High School has been arrested after getting into a fight with a female student.

Hartford police arrested Benjamin Blake, 61, of Kent Street on Tuesday and charged him with breach of peace in the second degree in connection with an altercation with a 17-year-old student.

Police said that around 8:30 AM, the school resource officer saw Blake fighting with the student. Blake allegedly picked her up and slammed her to the floor.

The resource officer and a security guard broke up the fight and the student was not injured.