A Texas substitute teacher was caught on video slamming a basketball on the head of a seventh grader, who was in remission from cancer.
But the violence didn’t stop there; the teacher continued to pelt other students with dodge balls, screaming at them saying, “You want to be down there crying like he is?” pointing to the teary-eyed student crumpled on the ground.
One brave soul thought to whip out his cellphone and catch the entire scene on video (presumably a middle school student).
The incident occurred during a game of dodge ball at Bridgeport Middle School in Texas last Thursday. The video shows that the student was already on the floor of the gym when the teacher walks over to him, raises the basketball over his own head and then slams it onto the student’s head. The school immediately kicked Billy Garvin, the 65-year-old substitute, off campus.
Garvin admits he hit the students, but claim the students provoked him when they threw dodge balls at his face.
The seventh grader’s mom did not find Garvin’s excuse acceptable.
“The substitutes… they’re supposed to be people you can trust,” she told News 8.
“How could he think that was okay to do?” she later said in another interview with Fox 4. “I just hope he can never be at another school.”
Garvin had been caught mistreating students before, and was banned from substituting at Alvord ISD school last year.
He could face two years of jail time and pay a $4,o00 fine for this latest incident, but the teacher has yet to be charged for his actions.
This video joins the footage of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice shouting gay slurs and slamming his players with basketballs among the worst displays of coaching ever caught on camera.
The footage below will blow your mind— and hurt your heart.
