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To: Scrapps who wrote (13288)3/3/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: jhild  Read Replies (2) of 22053
 
Two sides to any story it seems out in San Francisco:

Tuesday March 3 11:13 AM EST
81-year-old substitute teacher accused of battery

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An 81-year-old substitute teacher has been accused of battery after she allegedly clobbered a disruptive high school student.

English teacher Bella Hodesson, a 20-year veteran substitute at San Francisco's Galileo High, was giving a test on Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" last Tuesday when one 14-year-old student became disruptive.

Hodesson said Monday she tried to reason with the boy and at one point their arms touched -- leading him to storm straight to the dean's office.

"I touch people all the time. That's just the way I am," Hodesson told reporters Monday after news of the scuffle broke. "I didn't hit him. No way. I wouldn't even have thought of hitting him."

Despite mediation efforts by police, the boy, who has not been identified, insisted on filing charges and Hodesson faces a court hearing March 31.

Police Officer Eileen Murphy, who took Hodesson's thumbprint and cited her for battery, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the teacher, who stands just 5'4" and weighs 138 pounds, is no frail little old lady.

"I asked her to touch me the way she touched him, and it felt like a hit to me. And I was wearing a bulletproof vest."

^REUTERS@

dailynews.yahoo.com

Good thing she didn't really hit the little scholar.
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