BEAUMONT, Texas — A Texas teacher lost it when a student allegedly made disparaging jokes about his favorite football team and knocked the student unconscious with one punch.
The teacher in question was immediately terminated from his job. But he has yet to be brought up on charges, nor named in the media, angering the student’s mother and the community in suburban Houston.
Accoring to 12newsnow.com, the parents of the 80-pound seventh-grader are now looking to get legal representation because they believe the perpetrator is not being punished sufficiently for violently assaulting a child.
Middle school student Reginald Wells, 12, claims that last week he stopped in the hallway to talk with his math class’s assistant teacher.
Wells testified that during that conversation, he made a joke about the man’s favorite team and was then punched in the arm by the teacher.
Wells admits that he reflexively reacted to the punch shoving the teacher’s shoulder.
He said that’s when things exploded along the hallways. Walls claims the teacher suckerpunched the student with a punch so powerful to the face that knocked him out for at least a few seconds.
“He like hit me, and I blacked out — the left side of my face was numb, my lip hurt, my head was hurt, like it had been shaken,” he told the media outlet.
Reginald’s mother, Adrianne Wells, claims the principal admitted to her that the teacher gave her son an uppercut to the face, causing the boy to slide across the floor at Willie Ray Smith Middle School in Beaumont, about an hour east of Houston. 
The principal reportedly told the mother of the injured student that the teacher was immediately fired and escorted off the school’s property. The principal says the teacher admitted to just “snapping” and had been having a bad day.
Wells says the firing is not enough, reiterating her stance that the teacher should be facing criminal charges as well. She says she is seeking legal counsel because she can’t seem to get any further action from the school district.
