Student Beat Up Teacher Who Took Friend's iPod

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Classmates: Student Beat Up Teacher Who Took Friend's iPod

POSTED: 11:59 am EST February 23, 2007
UPDATED: 1:26 pm EST February 23, 2007

An unnamed male teacher was taken to a local hospital after a student beat him up over an iPod on Friday, according to students.

A witness said the teacher took a student’s iPod away and a fellow classmate assaulted the teacher after a ruckus broke out.

The teacher was bleeding and was taken to a local hospital. His name and condition were not released.

The school is located on East High Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
 
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Teacher's Neck Broken in Attack
Police Arrest Two Students

by Erin O'Hearn and Bob Monek

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GERMANTOWN - February 23, 2007 - Two students accused of attacking a teacher in a hallway of Germantown High School on Friday morning are now behind bars.

The attack happened after 60-year-old Frank Burd confiscated an iPod from one of the students who was using it in class. The 14-year-old returned later with an 11th grader.

The teens allegedly pushed Burd, who struck his head on a locker. Schools CEO Paul Vallas said Burd broke his neck in two places. He was taken to Einstein Medical Center, but showed no sign of paralysis.

The confrontation was caught on videotape. School officials were able to use the tape to immediately identify the students.

17-year-old Donte Boykin was taken to Northwest Detectives in handcuffs on Friday evening, shortly after arresting the 14-year-old.

Both students have a checkered past. They were both previously expelled, but they were allowed to return to school after a year. School officials say the kids were in the process of being expelled again when they assaulted Burd.

They are behind bars in the process of being slapped with serious charges. They will be charged as adults.

Burd, a popular math and photography teacher, is recovering in intensive care at Einstein Medical Center. He remains in critical but stable condition. He is expected to have surgery on Monday.
 
Great Schools Search... Germantown High School

12th grade enrollment : 265
Number of graduates intending to obtain a job: 17

Percentage of students at Advanced reading level: 0.0%
Percentage of students at Below Basic reading level: 67.8%

Percentage of students scoring in the top 25% in the SAT verbal part: 1.3
Percentage of students scoring in the bottom 25% in the SAT verbal part: 70.7

Percentage of students at Advanced math level: 0.0%
Percentage of students at Below Basic math level: 81.2%

Percentage of students scoring in the top 25% in the SAT math part: 0.0
Percentage of students scoring in the bottom 25% in the SAT math part: 73.3

Ref... Schools Data
 
Powdered Toast Man said:
Great Schools Search... Germantown High School

12th grade enrollment : 265
Number of graduates intending to obtain a job: 17
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Seventeen whole niggers out of 265 enrolled intend to get a job???!!!:lol:

Does the inverse apply? Maybe greatschools.net would be interested in using the following logical demographic:

Number of graduates intending to get on SSI disability or welfare: 248
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Either one is equally damning, in my opinion.
 
3 Ks said:
I hate to say it, Bobster, but, judging by this guys pic & career choice, he probably belongs in the new wiggers and other victims of Diversity.
Hope I'm wrong, but I won't be surprised if he is a good & forgiving socialist progressive fake un-bigot.
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Based on his comments below, I'm about ready to move the thread. I'm just waiting for him to "forgive" the attackers. He's already stupid enough to teach in a nigger school.


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Teacher: The Attack "Scared Me" By Dann Cuellar

COONTOWN - February 26, 2007 - 60-year-old Frank Burd told Action News on Monday night that he has mixed emotions about returning to teach at Germantown High School. What happened to him last week has changed him forever.

Burd suffered an incredible ordeal last Friday after taking an iPod from a student. He said the student was playing the iPod so loud that it was disrupting class. :mad:

Shortly after class that student and another one allegedly attacked him in the hallway. He was either pushed or deliberately tripped and then fell into a locker, breaking his neck. Even so, he finds it difficult to speak badly about the students who attacked him.

"I feel bad for one of them who I know. I didn't know the other kid. He just jumped on the bandwagon or something. They tell me he's the one that did the damage. And he's a kid that was supposed to be expelled to a disciplinary school," said Burd.

Despite breaking two vertebrae in his neck, Burd's spinal cord was not damaged, which was a great relief, but doctors still cannot say if he will suffer any more damage until after surgery is complete.

"The more people explained it to me, they said, 'You almost died!' So, it scared me," said Burd. "I don't know how I'd feel walking into the school. It's too hard to answer. Let's put it this way, I can't see me not teaching."

Earlier, his brother told us that teaching has been Frank's lifelong passion.

"He taught me to swing a bat. He taught me American history. He taught me anything he knew," Bill Burd said.

Frank Burd told us that he hopes his case illustrates how difficult it is for teachers.

"I wish parents and administrators would recognize just how hard this job is, and try to be more supportive cause we really are the front line of troops," he said.

Frank Burd is scheduled to have surgery on Wednesday.
 
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Injured Teacher: 'I Don't Understand It'
Burd Says He Will Return To Classroom

POSTED: 10:38 pm EST March 9, 2007
UPDATED: 11:02 pm EST March 9, 2007

PHILADELPHIA -- A veteran teacher who had his neck broken, allegedly by two students over an iPod, talked to NBC 10 News on Friday about the recent violence in Philadelphia schools.

Frank Burd, who is being treated at the Moss Rehabilitation Center, said just moving is a challenge these days.

"Some mornings I feel I can do this -- I can do this," he said. "I get so excited."

The 60-year-old Germantown High School teacher spends more than four hours a day in intensive physical and speech therapy.

"They're helping me put my arm in the sleeves in shirts," Burd said. "They want to encourage me to eat by myself. "

Two weeks ago, Burd was attacked by two students after he took an iPod from one of them in math class.

"I picked up the iPod and walked away," Burd said. "I didn't remember anything after that except a fleeting moment in the ambulance and being in the hospital and waking up. I don't understand it, how somebody could do something like this."

When Burd woke up, doctors told him he had several broken bones in his neck. Since surgery, he's worn a halo to stabilize his neck, and a vest supports his chest and back. Doctors said the combination must be a part of his recovery for at least three months.

"Everything hurts when you lay on a pillow," Burd said.

Burd, a 23-year teaching veteran, has taught math and theater at Germantown High School at total of 10 years, and he described his devices in a theatrical way, NBC 10 reported.

"It's so odd to me," Burd said. "It looks like some kind of torture out of the Middle Ages, and they hurt a lot."

Burd also said he is hurting emotionally, wondering why one 11th-grader he knew and a ninth-grader he did not know would push and punch him.

"The one who punched, I don't even know what or why," Burd said. "The kid I do know who knows I care about him, I don't understand it."

Burd said he believed the Philadelphia school system should keep troublemakers out of the classroom, away from students who want to learn and teachers who want to help teach.

"If someone has done something of a violent nature, they should not return," Burd said.

When asked if he planned to return to the school, Burd said he would be back.

"The school is my family; the kids I teach are my family," Burd said. "I'm not there to help my family."

Copyright 2007 by NBC10.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 
It's probably too late to reprogram this teacher while he's getting physical therapy. He should never considered those niggers his "family." Too bad he got nailed so close to retirement. Now in his declining years, he can reflect and consider whether he should have chosen some productive line of work.
 
Okay, it's moved.

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Student Pleads Guilty in Teacher Attack Case

PHILADELPHIA - March 12, 2007 - A Germantown High student pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the attack on a popular math teacher.

One of two Germantown High School students has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and other charges in connection with the attack on popular math teacher Frank Burd. The 15-year-old boy appeared in family court Monday morning.

The other teen in the case, 17-year-old Donte Boykin, is due in court for trial on April 3rd.
 


Lengthy slideshow with their dirty coonfaces obscured: here

Also video.
 
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Nigger-Loving Assaulted Teacher Speaks Out
An Action News Special Report

By Lisa Thomas Laury

March 26, 2007 - It has been one month since a Philadelphia public school teacher suffered a broken neck in an attack by two students. Now he is speaking out about the incident and how it has changed his life.

"It's just not something I could have expected from anyone I know ... any kid I know," said Burd.

Frank Burd has been recovering from last month's attack at Moss Rehabilitation Center. It hasn't been easy...

Frank said of his neck brace, "I sleep with this, keep in mind, this doesn't come off at night."

Burd suffered 5 fractured vertebrae in his neck when he was slammed against a locker, punched and knocked to the floor by a 14 and 17-year-old. He now wears a halo neck brace, which immobilizes his neck so the bones can heal. He had surgery where doctors grafted bone from his hip to fuse his cervical vertebrae and inserted tiny bolts to offer more stability.

His biggest physical difficulty has been sleeping and swallowing, but Burd is most concerned about the injury to his brain. :lol:

Burd says, "My biggest fear is, I don't have my full facilities back. I can't remember things sometimes, that people said to me five minutes ago."

What disappoints Burd the most is that he felt he had a good rapport with the 17-year-old, whose iPod he took. And contrary to earlier reports, that boy was not a problem student. :rotfl:

"I don't know what was going on in his head that day. But I am so angry at him. It's hard for me to be angry and keep anger ... I'm angry. He took a lot away from me."

The Teachers Union says assaults on teachers have increased over the past 3 years, and Burd doesn't think more security or a stronger police presence is the solution, but he says smaller classes is a start. :headbash:

"You take any one of my kids I teach and work with them one on one in a small group, and they're so different then sometimes when they get into a large group." :rolleyes:

Burd says every teacher he knows just wants what he had been fortunate to have from most of his students:

Burd said, "We want respect. And we want respect not just from the kids. We want respect from the administration ... from everybody. We want respect because we worked hard. We went to school, we learned stuff. We're a smart group of people. But we're not necessarily movers and shakers. We do the grunt work. We're the front line of troops, and we've got to believe in our commanders."

Still, though he loved his profession, his future is uncertain.

Frank Burd has been able to leave Moss Rehab since our report; but is being treated as an outpatient, and is living with his brother until he can take care of himself.
 
William of the White Hand said:
Good news. I guess that means that he can still continue teaching coons.
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:tongue: Hey, watch it William. Those coons, that broke his neck, are like "family" to him!:lol:

When he recovers, he might seek you out and hit your fists with his face.http://www.newnation.co/

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You're spot on, Veritas.

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Numbnuts Teacher Wants To Face Attacker
Two Teens Charged In Violent Assault

POSTED: 6:25 pm EDT April 1, 2007
UPDATED: 6:42 pm EDT April 1, 2007

PHILADELPHIA -- A high school teacher assaulted after he took an iPod away from a student says he will be in court to see one of the attackers sentenced.

"I want to see what a person looks like who would do this to me," Frank Burd, 60, said Friday evening. "I want him to see me, too. I want him to see my eyes. I want to look into his eyes. I don't know what I'll see, if I'll see anything."

Burd is recovering from a broken neck and brain injury in the Feb. 23 assault at Germantown High School. The attack caused widespread outrage, prompted other teachers to talk about assaults on them and has led the district to change the way it handles student violence.

Authorities said a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old attacked Burd after the teacher took away an iPod from the older boy during class. Prosecutors said the 15-year-old punched Burd between one and three times, causing him to fall into a locker and hit the floor.

The 15-year-old acknowledged his role in the attack last month and is slated to be sentenced Tuesday in Family Court. The 17-year-old is scheduled to go on trial Thursday.

Burd, who remembers nothing about the attack, said he has thought "a million times and not at all" about what he will say before the younger student is sentenced. He declined to speculate on what a just sentence would be, but says he wants to be sure "that others see there are consequences."

"As a teacher, I'm a very forgiving person, but sometimes if you forgive someone too many times, they feel they have license to do what they want," he said.
 
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Guilty Plea in Teacher Assault Case

By Rick Williams

April 5, 2007 - A Germantown High School senior who assaulted a teacher in the hallway back in February has pleaded guilty.

17 year-old Done Boykin had been scheduled to begin trial in juvenile court Thursday morning on assault and conspiracy charges, but instead entered the guilty plea.

Boykin admitted shoving teacher Frank Burd twice on February 23rd after Burd confiscated his iPod.

The algebra teacher fell towards ninth grader James Footman, who was allegedly cutting class.

Footman, who knew neither Boykin nor Burd, punched the teacher in the face three times. :eek:

The attack left Burd with five broken vertebrae in his neck and a concussion.

15-year-old Footman pled guilty to aggravated assault last month.

Both students will be sentenced April 26th.

Burd is expected to make a statement in court at the sentencing. (I can't wait to hear this.)
 
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