St. Paul teacher finds himself a reluctant hero in an a
ttack by three boys on a fellow student.
After seeing the first punch, teacher Tom Song immediately moved through the packed hall to stop the assault. Then a second student punched the ninth-grade boy, knocking him to the floor.
A third started kicking him.
Here we see the chinks apparently attack in a pack like niggers.
In an attack that lasted less than a minute at St. Paul Harding High School on Wednesday, Song knew he had to do more. So he dropped to cover the victim with his own body.
How noble.â┚¬Ã…¡ÃƒÆ’”�Å¡ When I was in school just a teacher saying "stop" would end the fight.
"I thought that when I covered the kid up, they would have relaxed a little bit," Song said, noting he was kicked a couple of times himself.
Even a teacher was kicked.â┚¬Ã…¡ÃƒÆ’”�Å¡ Whites just would not to this.
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ortunately, they didn't."
A Harding student was hospitalized Wednesday night, and three male students were arrested after an attack that school officials say may have been racially motivated. But a police spokesman said there is no evidence that race played a role.
Well, who is correct, the school official or the police
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One thing is clear to people who witnessed the attack: Song kept it from getting a lot worse.
So everybody admits the chinks were going to hurt the White student even more?
"It's way above and beyond," said St. Paul interim Superintendent Lou Kanavati, a former Harding principal. Kanavati went to the school Thursday to thank Song personally for his actions. "If it wasn't for Tom, God knows what would have happened."
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:red'>The three students, who are Asian</span>, were released to their parents. Police say they likely face misdemeanor assault charges. The victim, who is white, was kept overnight for observation at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. He was to be released Thursday.
Neither the victim nor the suspects have been identified.
"To the best of my information at this time, it may have been racially motivated," said Harding Principal Todd Hochman, on
the basis of statements from other students.
But St. Paul police spokesman Pete Crum said the incident that sparked the attack happened in an auto technology class last week, when a student sprayed another with deodorant. Since then, Crum said, "it's been brewing all week."
Just how bad do these chinks smell for the White kid to have to spray them with deodorant?
But this is type of stuff that happen
s all the ti
me among 9th
grade White boys.
I guess the Whites will know have to taught about the chink concepct of "face".
Beyond that, Hochman said, there had been no altercations between the students involved. And he said he knows of no simmering tensions between white students and Asian students at the school.
At 44 percent of the student body, Asian students make up the largest ethnic group at Harding, a 2,100-student school on St. Paul's East Side. Twenty-four percent of Harding's students are white and 22 percent are black[
/color], according to 2005 information.
I would say that this demographic change occured in less then a generation.
Hochman said this is the first serious incident at the school this year.
No weapons were involved, "just feet and fists," he said.
The beating occurred s
hortly after the
school's fi
nal lunch period, around 1 p.m. The students were returning to class in the hall just north of the school's Ninth Grade Academy office when the three suspects attacked the victim, Hochman said.
Song saw the first punch and intervened. The rest happened very quickly.
"I tried to be as proactive as possible about it," he said. "But it was such a big gathering [in the hallway]."
Two of the suspects are students in one of Song's classes.
Crum said the attack lasted "maybe 30 seconds."
After other teachers stopped it, Song said he looked at the boy and saw he was having what appeared to be a seizure. Paramedics were called and the boy was taken to Regions by ambul
ance.
'A choice these kids made'
The principal said that school officials continue to investigate what happened. Hochman planned to send letters home to students' families Thursday afternoon.
He said he's co
nvinced the attack w
as premeditated.
"You look at the videotape and, man, there were staff everywhere," he said. "This was a choice that these kids made."
I hope the video is made public.
Now, he said, they'll face the consequences.
"Once we have all the details, we will pursue disciplinary action to the fullest," Hochman said.
In the aftermath of the attack, school and district staff members were gushing about Song, who has taught physical education and health at Harding for nearly a decade.
"He's a dynamite teacher," Hochman said. "He's here for the kids, obviously."
Song, however, was reluctant to discuss it.
"To tell you the truth, I would rather not be in the newspaper," he said quietly. "I mean, it wasn't reall
y that big of a deal."
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