Attacked, Spit On, Threatened: The Scary New Reality for Teachers?
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.4 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A Florida teacher is brutally attacked by two 19-year-old students, caught on camera in a violent, unprovoked ambush. But this isn’t just one isolated incident. From elementary to high schools, teachers across America are being punched, kicked, cursed at, stalked, and even threatened with death — by the very students they're paid to teach.
Dr. Phil dives deep into the growing epidemic of classroom violence. Why is this happening? Who’s to blame — the kids, the parents, the system? This isn’t just a school problem. It’s a society problem. And it’s time we deal with it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Dr. Phil here, ready to talk to you about the real story, where I take headlines |
| 0:04.8 | that jump out at me and tell you what I think is really going on. |
| 0:08.9 | And today, I've got a question. |
| 0:11.6 | What the hell is happening in our schools? |
| 0:14.6 | Recently, two 19-year-old students were arrested after allegedly beating a teacher at a high school in Fort |
| 0:22.9 | Lauderdale, Florida. |
| 0:23.9 | Two students seen attacking a teacher. |
| 0:26.9 | And they're now facing charges as we learn more about that brutal beating. |
| 0:30.4 | Now here's what happened. |
| 0:32.7 | This is an altercation that is captured on video. |
| 0:36.2 | A lot of it on students' phones. |
| 0:40.3 | Punches are repeatedly thrown in this video all against the teacher who was already on the ground. |
| 0:46.3 | Now, what's that tell you? It tells you that they're not doing anything except videoing this instead of helping the teacher. |
| 0:54.5 | It shows Javis L. McLever 19 and Roderick McQueen 19 approaching a teacher and verbally |
| 1:02.5 | threatening to attack him. |
| 1:04.5 | This is according to police. |
| 1:06.4 | The two both enrolled at Dillard High School, then intentionally launched a synchronized physical |
| 1:13.3 | attack on the teacher. They repeatedly punched the teacher in the face and head with closed |
| 1:19.8 | fist, causing the educator to fall to the ground, according to police. They also added that the |
| 1:26.1 | students continued to punch the teacher while he was on the |
| 1:29.2 | ground. |
| 1:30.2 | Now finally, security staff, no students, pulled the two students away from the teacher who |
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