Georgia middle school teacher, BeTreylin Elder, resigns after throwing student across classroom
A Georgia middle school teacher resigned after he tossed an 11-year-old student across the classroom and allegedly made sexual remarks about the child’s mother.
DeRenne Middle School student, identified as TJ, stood up from his desk and approached his teacher BeTreylin Elder at the front of his classroom to stop him from talking about his mom, according to WTOC.
“I was told that he had a share of words that were inappropriate to TJ and that he had made some remarks about me and my son was unhappy with it,” Che’Nelle Russell told the outlet.
TJ and Elder, who is also the school’s football coach, exchanged several words with each other before the educator grabbed the 11-year-old’s chest, footage of the altercation showed.
Elder lifted the student off the floor and effortlessly flung him into a desk near other students.
TJ allegedly told Elder to “stop talking about my mom” and wanted to call him about the teacher’s remarks.
“From that point, he was then grabbed and thrown to the floor like nothing,” Russell explained.
As TJ attempted to get off the ground, Elder stood directly over him.
Russell, who doesn’t know Elder, says the school system failed her as the violent throw has caused her to have a lack of trust in the school.
The preteen told his mom that Elder’s remarks were “sexual in nature” with one saying “that he left his shoes at TJ’s mom’s house,” Russell told the outlet.
School officials removed Elder from the classroom and reassigned him to a different location away from students.
TJ suffered a concussion and multiple bruises and was brought to the emergency room after school Friday, the outlet reported.
Elder submitted his resignation to the school district over the weekend.
The hastily timed resignation didn’t sit well with Russell who wanted further discipline against Elder.
“He needs to be placed in jail. He hurt my boy. I’m heartbroken because I wouldn’t do that to my child. His father wouldn’t do that to him. So for him to take the initiative to do that is sickening,” Russell said.
No lawsuits or criminal charges have been filed against Elder, according to Savannah Morning News.
In October, a 27-year-old Brooklyn teacher put a 15-year-old student in a headlock injuring the pupil to the point of hospitalization.
The shocking incident at the High School for Sports Management took place on Oct. 29 Tuesday, sending the injured student to Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital in Brooklyn.
The teacher, Gary Zeng, allegedly attacked the youngster after he entered his classroom without permission, sources told The Post.
Zeng was taken into custody and charged with second-degree strangulation, criminal obstruction of breathing, endangering the welfare of a child, and third-degree assault, police said.
The student suffered neck injuries.
