Fresno Unified releases video showing principal assaulting special needs student

[ItsjustMe]

https://edsource.org/updates/fresno-unified-releases-video-showing-principal-assaulting-special-needs-student

A video released by the Fresno Unified School District showing a principal shoving a special needs student to the ground over the summer has led to the now-resigned employee being charged with willful cruelty to a minor.

Brian Vollhardt, the former principal of Wolters Elementary School in northeast Fresno, shoved the student during breakfast time on June 7, Fresno police and FUSD officials told reporters during a news conference on Thursday.

Superintendent Bob Nelson called the behavior “repugnant.”

“Instead of de-escalating the situation, which is what we expect of an educator in our system, the former principal chooses to aggressively shove the student down instead,” he said.

Nelson said Vollhardt reported the incident a day later, and after the district started the discipline process, he resigned. He has since taken a job at Tranquility High School in the Golden Plains Unified School District, ABC30 reported. Vollhardt’s name appears on the California Department of Education website as vice principal of the school.

[peacebuzzard]

1. I hope the school district comes after this creep

and makes sure he never gets a job in education as a minimum. He needs jail time, needs to pay for damages, placed on probation and community work for a very long time.

[Tetrachloride]

2. On behalf of

1. the special needs people in my family
2. the special needs students of my neighbor who is a teacher
3. the special needs students and adults at my previous job
4. on behalf of my father the teacher and WW2 veteran
5. and myself as a tutor, godfather …

that guy can find a job elsewhere away from schools.

6. Bonus. On behalf of the special needs teacher Miss J who asked me to dance at a country club event
7. On behalf of special needs people who were hidden away in my area

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