You have probably heard about the teacher who attempted to break-up a fight between two teenage boys in her Detroit high school classroom by hitting one of them with a broomstick (video appears later in this post). The teacher, Tiffani Eaton, was subsequently fired—but then reinstated.
I heard a lengthy interview with Eaton on WJR radio late this afternoon; and as it turns out, the fight was just the tip of the iceberg of incredible information surrounding this incident. So far the radio interviewer, Mitch Albom, has not posted a podcast of the interview; but here is a summary of what the teacher had to say:
1. The fight pursued due to an argument over a designer belt. Eaton didn’t know the specifics (i.e. was one student accusing the other of stealing the belt, etc.) other than what precipitated the argument was a belt.
2. During the commotion in the classroom, one of the other students took the opportunity to steal the teacher’s cell phone. Eaton said that some time later when things had settled down she discovered her cell phone was missing. The students and classroom were searched, but her cellphone was not found.