Three DeKalb County students are facing charges after allegedly initiating a physical altercation with a teacher, but Superintendent Devon Horton said he doesn’t think the students should be criminalized.
A short video of a fight involving several students and an adult circulated on social media last week, raising concerns about what led to the violence. The three Martin Luther King Jr. High School students were charged with battery and disrupting a public school. The teacher is on administrative leave while the district investigates the situation.
“They are not criminals, and we should not be criminalizing them,” Horton said Tuesday at a news conference about the situation. “And to be honest, there’s more to it than meets the eye.”…