When you drop your child off at school each day, you’d like to hope that they’re in a safe environment where the teachers encourage everyone to be respectful of one another.
This news story posted by NBC News shares how a substitute teacher in Texas was fired and is facing charges after allegedly staging student fights in her classroom.
Natalie Garcia from Mesquite, Texas, was arrested in April 2023 and charged with four counts of child endangerment after a video taken inside her classroom during a substitute teaching job came to light.
The video showed a group of teenagers, some not even 13 years old, inside a classroom at Kimbrough Middle School. Their faces have been blurred because they are minors, but you can see them fighting one another at the encouragement of their substitute teacher, 24-year-old Natalie Garcia.
The mother of the student who filmed the video and brought this alarming incident to light found herself completely shocked when she saw what was happening in the video.
“I was devastated … I couldn’t watch the full video. I had to stop it multiple times because I didn’t think it was real,” Beatriz Martinez explains.
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According to Martinez, her daughter alleges that Garcia had students push desks aside in the classroom in order to create ample space for them to physically fight one another.
The Mesquite Independent School District confirmed that the teacher encouraged her students to physically fight and even had one of them stand guard at the door to make sure no one walked in and caught them in the act.
To hear what the school district had to say about this teacher’s actions, watch the full video shared by NBC News.
