"No screaming. No distress." Fierce fighting club in a school-supervised classroom
A Florida teacher has been charged with four counts, including contributing to child delinquency, after it was found that she had organized a kind of fight club in her classroom.
According to WCTV, the school administration questioned information that 23-year-old teacher Angel Fottman organized these rounds of fighting and brawls in sixth grade in late March, until they finally obtained videos of the alleged fights in which Fottman was seen sitting at her desk watching students fight.
The Miami Herald quoted at least three administrators as saying they were able to hear the school's Fottman in these videos shouting at students to "stop pulling hair" and "disperse."
Several sixth-graders later spoke with interrogators and confessed to participating in fights fueled by Fottman, and two said their teacher once asked them if they were interested in repeating the battle later.
According to the students, Fottman had four rules, the first of which was that there should be no talk "about the Fight Club". Instead, her guidelines consisted of "30 seconds, no screaming, no distress, no phones."
Footman admitted to investigators that she failed to report the altercations to school principals or intervene, but denied any involvement in organizing the alleged fight club.
The teacher was summoned to judge. She will face up to a year for every charge against her.