WXIA TV
“I will knock your lights out and I will f—k you up,” are the words that students at Mundy’s Mill Middle School say school nurse Beverly Barnes directed at 11-year-old Jason Ezzard during a physical altercation.
According to WXIA TV, the incident occurred inside the Georgia middle school’s cafeteria after Barnes caught Ezzard and another boy throwing a bag of chips back and forth.
“The nurse kept asking why he threw it, (and he) was saying, ‘Huh, huh,’” said one of the witnesses. “Then the nurse got mad and pushed his head and was saying, ‘I will knock your lights and I will f–k you up.’”
Bystanders add that Barnes used the n-word and followed Ezzard around “like she wanted to fight” him. Thankfully, a teacher stepped in. Ezzard’s mom, Tomeka Ezzard, was able to watch the disturbing incident, which was captured by surveillance cameras.
“My heart, I swear, was going 100 miles per hour, and I had to remind myself to breathe,” she said. ““She’s abused my child physically, mentally, and verbally, and no one will help me.”
Following the October 2014 incident, Barnes was suspended for two days without pay before being permitted to return to school, but the sixth-grader’s mom says that this is not enough. On the other hand, school officials say that they believe the two-day suspension was appropriate because there were no prior complaints made against Barnes.
“If it would’ve been the other way around, Jason would have been locked up on the spot,” Ezzard said. “I would have been going to pick my child up at the Clayton County Juvenile Detention Center. What makes her any different from Jason?”
Mundy’s Mill Middle School declined to release surveillance footage of the incident to the public, citing privacy concerns.
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