Quote:A recently released surveillance video shows a student allegedly attacking a Florida teacher aide, knocking her to the ground and punching her repeatedly.

Video released by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office shows the Matanzas High School student allegedly attacking the teacher's aide because she confiscated his Nintendo Switch during class.

https://rumble.com/v2arnwu-content-warni...acher.html

The 17-year-old student was arrested on charges of felony aggravated battery with bodily harm.

A local Fox affiliate reported that the alleged incident took place on Tuesday, "when a school resource deputy was notified that a teacher's aide had been physically attacked on campus. Officials said the woman was unconscious, bloody, and had severe injuries."

The student made comments that he was upset with the teacher after she confiscated the gaming device, and that he would " beat her up every time she takes away his game," an arrest report stated, and that "when he comes back he is going to kill her."

Video shows the teacher being beaten by the student, who is described as being 6'6 and 270 lbs, with the student pushing the aid to the ground before kicking and punching her at least 15 times.

Link

Reminds me of the teacher getting beat up in the movie Lean On Me:

'Mental Health Advocate' Jumps to Defense of 270-Pound Student Accused of Beating Teacher's Aide Unconscious: 'He Is Not a Threat!'

Florida high school student who attacked teacher had three prior battery arrests, will be charged as adult

Should be a hate crime.

Imagine if….never mind

I saw this earlier in the week... disgusting. This is why back in the day, people that had mental problems were institutionalized...

I always love the lilly livered flower child running to the defense of a criminal.

She probably wailed and gnashed teeth when Roe v. Wade got overturned too.

Mad dogs are put down.

Florida Teacher Says She Didn’t Confiscate Student’s Nintendo Switch Before Vile Beating

Quote:The Florida teacher’s aide assaulted last week by a 6-foot-6-inch 270-pound high school student asserted she did not confiscate his Nintendo Switch prior to his assaulting her.

“The 17-year-old student was transported to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility and later turned over to the Department of Juvenile Justice,” said Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staley in a statement. “The student has been charged with Felony Aggravated Battery with Bodily Harm.”

The New York Post further reported:

The Florida teacher’s aide who was brutally attacked by a 270-pound student denied her teenage assailant’s claims that she sparked the classroom beatdown when she confiscated his Nintendo Switch.

Joan Naydich, a paraprofessional at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, made the revelation Monday as she continues to recover from being slammed to the floor and stomped on 15 times.

“I just want to set the record straight. I never took the Nintendo Switch from him. From anyone that’s read or heard differently, I’ve been told this was unfortunately misinformation,” Naydich said, according to a fundraiser launched for her recovery.

Brendan Depa, 17, told cops he launched his tirade on Naydich after she took his handheld game console during class.

Disturbing video shows the hulking 6-foot-6 teenager exacting his revenge on the mother of two in the school hallway.

Depa can be seen sprinting toward Naydich and shoving her to the ground, knocking her unconscious immediately.

The teenager continues to beat Naydich’s limp body as stunned students and teachers try to break up the violence.

It took four adults to pry the massive student off Naydich, the footage shows.

Naydich was rushed to a nearby hospital and has since been released but said she is “overwhelmed with the idea of the long fight ahead.”

“I’m hopeful that the awareness of this incident being spread far and wide will prevent anyone else from ever dealing with the trauma, physical healing and disruption of everyday life that this has caused,” Naydich said on GoFundMe, where more than $66,000 has been raised for her.

Depa — who allegedly told cops he was “going to kill her” when he is released from custody — will be tried as an adult with aggravated battery on a school board employee, an offense punishable by up to 30 years behind bars.

The troubled teen has a violent past and was arrested three times for simple battery in 2019.

Depa is considered behaviorally disabled and requires specially designed instruction and related services as a member of so-called “exceptional students.”

(03-01-2023 01:03 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  Florida Teacher Says She Didn’t Confiscate Student’s Nintendo Switch Before Vile Beating

Quote:Depa — who allegedly told cops he was “going to kill her” when he is released from custody — will be tried as an adult with aggravated battery on a school board employee, an offense punishable by up to 30 years behind bars.
The troubled teen has a violent past and was arrested three times for simple battery in 2019.
Depa is considered behaviorally disabled and requires specially designed instruction and related services as a member of so-called “exceptional students.”

WTF was he doing in a classroom anyway?

(03-01-2023 03:13 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(03-01-2023 01:03 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  Florida Teacher Says She Didn’t Confiscate Student’s Nintendo Switch Before Vile Beating

Quote:Depa — who allegedly told cops he was “going to kill her” when he is released from custody — will be tried as an adult with aggravated battery on a school board employee, an offense punishable by up to 30 years behind bars.
The troubled teen has a violent past and was arrested three times for simple battery in 2019.
Depa is considered behaviorally disabled and requires specially designed instruction and related services as a member of so-called “exceptional students.”

WTF was he doing in a classroom anyway?

Flagler may not have a school for troubled youth. There is one in St. Augustine for kids that are "expelled" from our county schools so that they still have a shot at an education.

Florida teacher severely beaten by 270-pound student over Nintendo Switch refuses to help defense lighten sentence

Quote:The Florida teacher who was beaten unconscious by a 270-pound student in a viral video has refused to help the teen’s defense lighten his sentence, according to a report.

Brendan Depa, then 17, violently hurled Matanzas High School paraprofessional Joan Naydich to the ground, then could be seen in the video kicking and punching her in the back and head more than a dozen times before he was pulled off her by other staff.

The troubled teen told investigators he attacked Naydich because teachers ordered him to stop playing a video game on a Nintendo Switch.

Depa, who was charged as an adult, faces up to 30 years in prison for the first-degree felony charge of aggravated battery.

According to Flagler Live, Naydich has “shown no interest in mitigating what penalties Depa might face.”

The autistic teen — who will plead guilty to avoid trial — was initially charged as a juvenile in the case before the raps were upgraded.

Still, Judge Terrence Perkins still has the option of sentencing him as a youth — and meting out a penalty as low as probation. The teen’s disabilities will likely weigh on his decision.

Now 18, Depa had three prior battery arrests before the shocking February attack on Naydich, who was treated at a hospital after the assault.

Flagler Live also reported that Depa got into a brawl in jail just last month.

Depa, who stands 6-foot-6, reportedly threatened to kill Naydich during his arrest.

It was initially reported Naydich had personally confiscated the Nintendo device from him, but she denied doing so in subsequent interviews.

“I’m hopeful that the awareness of this incident being spread far and wide will prevent anyone else from ever dealing with the trauma, physical healing and disruption of everyday life this has caused,” she said on a GoFundMe page that has raised more than $100,000.

Depa is slated to issue his plea later month and will be sentenced after that in a separate proceeding.

The high school where the assault took place has been besieged by violence in recent years — and days.

Just this week, 11 students were arrested at the Palm Coast school after a massive fracas erupted in a crowded hallway.

Deputies and administrators who tried to quell the chaos were shoved and punched during the incident.

“The lack of respect demonstrated by these students is simply shameful,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said of the fight. “But actions have consequences.”

In yet another violent episode this week, a 16-year-old student was arrested for biting a teacher who tried to stop her from fighting another girl.

Lock him up and throw away the key... he has no chance of being rehabilitated...

(10-25-2023 01:12 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  Lock him up and throw away the key... he has no chance of being rehabilitated...

Too bad they turned Alcatraz into a museum............

Gee, maybe mental institutions weren’t bad after all. This guy is exactly why they existed. Some folks just can’t function in society without endangering others.

(10-25-2023 01:12 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  Lock him up and throw away the key... he has no chance of being rehabilitated...

I understand that reaction but as a grandfather that is dealing with a grandchild that is autistic. I see it differently. While the spectrum is wide there are children that should not be in a everyday classroom. But schools are not spending the money needed to teach these children.

When you are dealing with a level 2 or 3 child that is autistic there will be a history of violent outburst. There is no maybes, it's going to take place and some children, often. I don't know if this person is a level 1 (low/mild level autism) or higher but his past and present acts of violent outburst makes me think he's a level 2.

These kids are strong, way stronger than kids their age, can snap into a fit of violent outburst, quickly when they are stimming and someone stops it. In my experience that is when they are most likely to dangerous and not only to other people but themselves also.

I don't know the answer and neither does doctors but if you put a child into a class room with level 2 autism and especially a boy this size, at some point someone is going to get hurt.

When we take our grandchild for his speech classes there's a 10 year old boy there and his mother has bruises on her face, arms, legs, almost every time we see them. This is a loving 10 year old boy, that really doesn't understand everything going on around him, for the most part. Last month, out of the blue, he was stimming (touching, picking up, smelling and licking (textures) everything around him) and someone broke a glass and his mother ran over to move him away from it.

Just like that, at the snap of the fingers, he had blooded her nose and was on top of her, swinging his fist and arms. It took me and two other men to get him off her. The hitting still didn't stop because he turned on himself and started to punch his own face. It stopped just as quick when his beaten mother got into his face eye to eye, telling him it's OK.

I doubt the boy in this article has ever got treatment because it's very hard to get into a speech or PT class. Took over a year for my grandchild and honestly at this point that is about all the help you are going to find in a lot of places. That is basically useless, but still don't want him out of the program so we still take him twice a week. But after a year of that we also went with a private teacher 3 times a week for our 5 year old grandchild and it's like night and day on the things he is being taught and learned. Especially the signing.

The whys and a treatment for why...a long list that is different for most children is just not there. At this point it's basically unknown why these things happen. So I don't think prison is going to be the answer. But someone that large and has shown the violent outbursts....

should never be in a class room full of students and a teacher that was not at least trained on autism. I'm not blaming the teacher, at all. But the school system and their need to get every person in a school....mostly for the dollars they get.

I don't have the answer but this person does need to be locked up getting help. But "help" or understanding it, is rare to find.

I must have missed the part that said the kid was autistic. That changes things a bit.

Thanks for your post detailing what you know about the condition.

(10-25-2023 02:17 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(10-25-2023 01:12 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  Lock him up and throw away the key... he has no chance of being rehabilitated...

I understand that reaction but as a grandfather that is dealing with a grandchild that is autistic. I see it differently. While the spectrum is wide there are children that should not be in a everyday classroom. But schools are not spending the money needed to teach these children.

When you are dealing with a level 2 or 3 child that is autistic there will be a history of violent outburst. There is no maybes, it's going to take place and some children, often. I don't know if this person is a level 1 (low/mild level autism) or higher but his past and present acts of violent outburst makes me think he's a level 2.

These kids are strong, way stronger than kids their age, can snap into a fit of violent outburst, quickly when they are stimming and someone stops it. In my experience that is when they are most likely to dangerous and not only to other people but themselves also.

I don't know the answer and neither does doctors but if you put a child into a class room with level 2 autism and especially a boy this size, at some point someone is going to get hurt.

When we take our grandchild for his speech classes there's a 10 year old boy there and his mother has bruises on her face, arms, legs, almost every time we see them. This is a loving 10 year old boy, that really doesn't understand everything going on around him, for the most part. Last month, out of the blue, he was stimming (touching, picking up, smelling and licking (textures) everything around him) and someone broke a glass and his mother ran over to move him away from it.

Just like that, at the snap of the fingers, he had blooded her nose and was on top of her, swinging his fist and arms. It took me and two other men to get him off her. The hitting still didn't stop because he turned on himself and started to punch his own face. It stopped just as quick when his beaten mother got into his face eye to eye, telling him it's OK.

I doubt the boy in this article has ever got treatment because it's very hard to get into a speech or PT class. Took over a year for my grandchild and honestly at this point that is about all the help you are going to find in a lot of places. That is basically useless, but still don't want him out of the program so we still take him twice a week. But after a year of that we also went with a private teacher 3 times a week for our 5 year old grandchild and it's like night and day on the things he is being taught and learned. Especially the signing.

The whys and a treatment for why...a long list that is different for most children is just not there. At this point it's basically unknown why these things happen. So I don't think prison is going to be the answer. But someone that large and has shown the violent outbursts....

should never be in a class room full of students and a teacher that was not at least trained on autism. I'm not blaming the teacher, at all. But the school system and their need to get every person in a school....mostly for the dollars they get.

I don't have the answer but this person does need to be locked up getting help. But "help" or understanding it, is rare to find.

I'm familiar dealing with an autistic kid. The key is what level was the kid? If he's sitting in high school level classes, then he's most definitely high functioning and very, very different from the kid you described who has all the sensory challenges that causes melt downs. This 17 year old most likely knows right from wrong and has learned to game the system because he's "special needs".

(10-25-2023 03:20 PM)miko33 Wrote:  

(10-25-2023 02:17 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(10-25-2023 01:12 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  Lock him up and throw away the key... he has no chance of being rehabilitated...

I understand that reaction but as a grandfather that is dealing with a grandchild that is autistic. I see it differently. While the spectrum is wide there are children that should not be in a everyday classroom. But schools are not spending the money needed to teach these children.

When you are dealing with a level 2 or 3 child that is autistic there will be a history of violent outburst. There is no maybes, it's going to take place and some children, often. I don't know if this person is a level 1 (low/mild level autism) or higher but his past and present acts of violent outburst makes me think he's a level 2.

These kids are strong, way stronger than kids their age, can snap into a fit of violent outburst, quickly when they are stimming and someone stops it. In my experience that is when they are most likely to dangerous and not only to other people but themselves also.

I don't know the answer and neither does doctors but if you put a child into a class room with level 2 autism and especially a boy this size, at some point someone is going to get hurt.

When we take our grandchild for his speech classes there's a 10 year old boy there and his mother has bruises on her face, arms, legs, almost every time we see them. This is a loving 10 year old boy, that really doesn't understand everything going on around him, for the most part. Last month, out of the blue, he was stimming (touching, picking up, smelling and licking (textures) everything around him) and someone broke a glass and his mother ran over to move him away from it.

Just like that, at the snap of the fingers, he had blooded her nose and was on top of her, swinging his fist and arms. It took me and two other men to get him off her. The hitting still didn't stop because he turned on himself and started to punch his own face. It stopped just as quick when his beaten mother got into his face eye to eye, telling him it's OK.

I doubt the boy in this article has ever got treatment because it's very hard to get into a speech or PT class. Took over a year for my grandchild and honestly at this point that is about all the help you are going to find in a lot of places. That is basically useless, but still don't want him out of the program so we still take him twice a week. But after a year of that we also went with a private teacher 3 times a week for our 5 year old grandchild and it's like night and day on the things he is being taught and learned. Especially the signing.

The whys and a treatment for why...a long list that is different for most children is just not there. At this point it's basically unknown why these things happen. So I don't think prison is going to be the answer. But someone that large and has shown the violent outbursts....

should never be in a class room full of students and a teacher that was not at least trained on autism. I'm not blaming the teacher, at all. But the school system and their need to get every person in a school....mostly for the dollars they get.

I don't have the answer but this person does need to be locked up getting help. But "help" or understanding it, is rare to find.

I'm familiar dealing with an autistic kid. The key is what level was the kid? If he's sitting in high school level classes, then he's most definitely high functioning and very, very different from the kid you described who has all the sensory challenges that causes melt downs. This 17 year old most likely knows right from wrong and has learned to game the system because he's "special needs".

I don't disagree with you but what is getting me is he snapped on a dime and it seems like it happens a lot. But then again some kids are just mean ******** that because they are bigger and stronger takes advantage of that.

My grandson is level 2 mostly because he started to stop talking at the age of 14 and at 18 months 99% stopped. He's normal in a lot of ways and smart as hell with numbers and anything to do with a Ipad (since 18 months old). We talked our son who got custody of him at 3 months old to move in with us (a MIL apt) so we could help.

Just started the melt downs the last 6 months and we can see a look he gets before it happens. I would say 70% happens during stimming, including when he's stimming on numbers on his Ipad. In those six months he has started the hitting (himself included). If you catch it early enough you can get his attention on something else and it passes. The other 30% noises, or bright light, textures bring them on. Those you just have to let run their course and back away unless he's hitting himself. Talk to him and if you can get him eye to eye they end in a few minutes. Some last 15+ and when he snaps out of it the little fellow is so tired he will hug up to you and sign I love You and fall right to sleep.

(02-24-2023 04:55 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:A recently released surveillance video shows a student allegedly attacking a Florida teacher aide, knocking her to the ground and punching her repeatedly.

Video released by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office shows the Matanzas High School student allegedly attacking the teacher's aide because she confiscated his Nintendo Switch during class.

https://rumble.com/v2arnwu-content-warni...acher.html

The 17-year-old student was arrested on charges of felony aggravated battery with bodily harm.

A local Fox affiliate reported that the alleged incident took place on Tuesday, "when a school resource deputy was notified that a teacher's aide had been physically attacked on campus. Officials said the woman was unconscious, bloody, and had severe injuries."

The student made comments that he was upset with the teacher after she confiscated the gaming device, and that he would " beat her up every time she takes away his game," an arrest report stated, and that "when he comes back he is going to kill her."

Video shows the teacher being beaten by the student, who is described as being 6'6 and 270 lbs, with the student pushing the aid to the ground before kicking and punching her at least 15 times.

Link

Reminds me of the teacher getting beat up in the movie Lean On Me:

It's high time to bring back the draft. These useless thugs need to be made into cannon fodder for Israel and Ukraine.

Florida student accused of violent attack on teacher's aide files lawsuit blaming school for incident

Quote:On Wednesday, the then-17-year-old Florida student who was arrested after he assaulted a teacher's aide for taking his Nintendo Switch filed a complaint against Flagler Schools with the Florida Department of Education which blamed the school for the incident.

While Brendan Depa pleaded no contest to "aggravated battery of a school employee," his attorney Stephanie Langer told FOX 35 the incident was avoidable.

According to the complaint, Depa is a student with "Emotional Behavioral Disorder, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Mood Disorder, and ADHD" and that "had the student's needs been properly addressed and had the staff around him been properly trained, this incident would not have occurred."

"What we saw was a complete failure to do any evidence-based intervention practices to change his problem behaviors as identified by the school district," Langer said. "It's not about negating what he did or excusing what he did, but it's holding the system accountable to make sure that kids get the support and services they need, so we never have another Brendan who goes out and hurts a paraprofessional or hurts anybody."

"Had the school system acted in the right way, this incident would never have happened, and the 17-year-old, now 18 years old, would not … be in jail today and would not be facing such significant penalties for his conduct that day," she claimed.

Video from the attack made national news in February 2023 after "a school resource deputy was notified that a teacher's aide had been physically attacked on campus. Officials said the woman was unconscious, bloody, and had severe injuries."

The arrest reports at the time noted that the then-17-year-old said that he would "beat her up every time she takes away his game," and that "when he comes back he is going to kill her."

The victim of the incident, teacher's aide Jaon Naydich told the outlet, "My whole life was just turned upside down."

"Unfortunately, a lot of my injuries that are not visible … I'm going to have for the rest of my life," she added.

Depa's complaint alleges that Naydich, "did not follow the plans and did not utilize an evidence-based strategy putting herself in a dangerous situation. An avoidable situation."