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Current Events » New Mexico teacher told students to duel with swords. Female student was injured
CableZL
02/28/2024
06:05 PM
#1
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-teacher-students-duel-swords-class-leading-serious-injury-t-rcna140961

A pair of New Mexico high school students dueled with swords in class at the behest of their teacher, badly and permanently injuring a teenage girl, her family said in a lawsuit.

The civil action was filed by Arnold and Judy Gachupin, guardians and grandparents of a student only identified as N.S. who allegedly suffered severed nerves and tendons from a May 2, 2022 sword fight at Volcano Vista High School in Albuquerque.

The suit named Albuquerque Public Schools, Assistant Principal Manuel Alzaga and former chemistry teacher Loviata Mitchell as defendants.

Mitchell allegedly brought katana- and rapier-style swords to school that day, had students re-arrange desks to form a ring in the middle of class and had pairs of pupils square off, the lawsuit claimed.

After the first pair of dueling science students completed their two-minute bout, N.S. and classmate D.M. were allegedly called by Mitchell to fight.

"D.M. struck N.S. across her right forearm, wrist, and hand with the katana-style sword," according to plaintiff's attorney Jessica Hernandez. "N.S. suffered a large and deep laceration across her right hand and wrist that is inconsistent with a 'prop' sword."

As soon as it became clear N.S., 16 at the time, was badly hurt, Mitchell allegedly screamed, "I'm in trouble!" and ordered students to delete any videos they shot of the fights.

What the fuck
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VampireCoyote
02/28/2024
06:08 PM
#2
teachers arent even allowed to give their students swords and have them fight to the death fucking liberals man
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Robot2600
02/28/2024
06:09 PM
#3
wtf kind of science class
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Cuticrusader09
02/28/2024
06:11 PM
#4
WTF. How could a teacher think this was a good idea?

__starsnostars
02/28/2024
06:11 PM
#5
And American education continues to freefall.
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JumpstyIe
02/28/2024
06:12 PM
#6
....but why?
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boxoto
02/28/2024
06:12 PM
#7
yea, that person has no business being around young people; let alone having them in their care...
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tremain07
02/28/2024
06:13 PM
#8
CableZL posted...
As soon as it became clear N.S., 16 at the time, was badly hurt, Mitchell allegedly screamed, "I'm in trouble!" and ordered students to delete any videos they shot of the fights.
This is a horrible story but holy shit at this moment it legit sounds like a moment from it's always sunny
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Weezy_Tha_Don
02/28/2024
06:13 PM
#9
I think I saw this matchup on an episode of Deadliest Warrior
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Null_Gain
02/28/2024
06:13 PM
#10
Cuticrusader09 posted...
WTF. How could a teacher think this was a good idea?

It's probably a result of a teacher shortage. Or maybe a nepo hire
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CADE_FOSTER
02/28/2024
06:14 PM
#11
banned from teaching 3 years in prison
Irony
02/28/2024
06:14 PM
#12
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mario2000
02/28/2024
06:15 PM
#13
tremain07 posted...
This is a horrible story but holy shit at this moment it legit sounds like a moment from it's always sunny

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NoxObscuras
02/28/2024
06:16 PM
#14
What does that even have to do with science? And it sounds like they were using real metal rapiers without any sort of protective gear. That teacher is nuts
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synth_real
02/28/2024
06:21 PM
#16
From the article:
"In response to the report's question, 'Did the injury violate school rules?' Mr. Alzaga checked a box indicating 'No,'" the lawsuit added.
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NeonOPPAl
02/28/2024
06:22 PM
#17
Did the teacher yell "There can only be one!"?

Also zero surprise the katana won over the rapier. The Japanese blade is just better.
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hereforemnant
02/28/2024
06:25 PM
#18
tremain07 posted...
This is a horrible story but holy shit at this moment it legit sounds like a moment from it's always sunny
Literally lmao
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NeonOPPAl
02/28/2024
06:26 PM
#19
"In response to the report's question, 'Did the injury violate school rules?' Mr. Alzaga checked a box indicating 'No,'" the lawsuit added.


Hmmmmmmmmmm
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ssb_yunglink2
02/28/2024
06:29 PM
#20
this is crazy lmao. Literally sounds like something that would happen in a sitcom, but its real and a child got a serious injury

Keep that teacher away from children forever
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Naysaspace
03/01/2024
06:58 PM
#21
"was injured"

irreparable damage on wrist tendons.

lock this teacher up!
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Turducken
03/01/2024
07:06 PM
#22
tremain07 posted...

This is a horrible story but holy shit at this moment it legit sounds like a moment from it's always sunny

God damn it, basically along the lines of what I was gonna say. I actually laughed out loud when I read that part; it's amazing.
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streamofthesky
03/01/2024
08:44 PM
#23
VampireCoyote posted...
teachers arent even allowed to give their students swords and have them fight to the death fucking liberals man
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1384725341550305281

NeonOPPAl posted...
Also zero surprise the katana won over the rapier. The Japanese blade is just better.
Indeed.
Hornswoggled
03/01/2024
08:52 PM
#24
There can be only one!
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JoeDangIt
03/01/2024
08:55 PM
#26
How did this start?
Torgo
03/01/2024
08:55 PM
#27
__starsnostars posted...
And American education continues to freefall.

Thanks Fox news and religious institutions.
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hmnut7
03/01/2024
08:58 PM
#28
tremain07 posted...
This is a horrible story but holy shit at this moment it legit sounds like a moment from it's always sunny
I would say more Arrested Development

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3b1ad778.jpg
but same idea

but seriously I hope the kids are ultimately okay, and the teacher should be fired... out of a cannon into the sun. I use to be a teacher and we weren't even allowed to give a students aspirin if they said they had a headache.
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thronedfire2
03/01/2024
09:02 PM
#29
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Tanthalas
03/01/2024
09:07 PM
#30
How the hell did the teacher think this was a good idea?
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AgentCoulson
03/01/2024
09:11 PM
#31
CableZL posted...


As soon as it became clear N.S., 16 at the time, was badly hurt, Mitchell allegedly screamed, "I'm in trouble!" and ordered students to delete any videos they shot of the fights.



Lmfao

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kirbymuncher
03/01/2024
09:42 PM
#32
Tanthalas posted...
How the hell did the teacher think this was a good idea?
honestly how did they think it was an idea at all?? like what kind of thought process did they go through that made them realize this was a thing that could even actually happen and then decide to do it
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xGhostchantx
03/01/2024
09:43 PM
#33
nothing personnel, class.
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CountCorvinus
03/01/2024
09:48 PM
#34
streamofthesky posted...
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1384725341550305281

Indeed.

Ugh. I remember when she posted this.
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itachi15243
03/01/2024
09:52 PM
#35
What kind of drugs do you have to be on to to think this is a good idea?
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Dark_Arbron
03/01/2024
10:01 PM
#36
Incident number 16777215 on the what the fuck is wrong with America list.
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DragonClaw01
03/01/2024
10:06 PM
#37
Robot2600 posted...
wtf kind of science class
The type of science class that has a lot of ballistic gel, crash test dummies and dudes wearing chain mail.
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Venixon
03/03/2024
12:30 AM
#38
Like okay, they could have just brought in foam or plastic if they were gonna do this shit. What's that got to do with science again?
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CE_gonna_CE
03/03/2024
12:31 AM
#39
This is a FUCKING topic title
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Venixon
03/03/2024
12:32 AM
#40
Schools, if the person in your employ has less brains then a brick, don't have them teach.
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Umbreon
03/03/2024
12:34 AM
#41
I can't even snark at this. This was exceptionally fucking stupid of the teacher to allow.
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bigtiggie23
03/03/2024
01:10 AM
#42
You have to admit Volcano Vista is an awesome name for a high school.
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Dark_Arbron
03/03/2024
01:30 AM
#43
Ordering the students to delete video footage of the fight. Yeah, itd be a shame if evidence of your fucking insanity were leaked to the media
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boxoto
03/03/2024
01:33 AM
#44
this news clip shows some of the sword fighting, but not the one where the student gets hurt:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ASMR6BFlEf0
Don't you agree, Zach?
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02fran
03/04/2024
08:45 PM
#45
The teacher was on some of that blue meth.
DoctorPiranha3
03/04/2024
09:01 PM
#46
Started my day with this topic:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80712402

Ending my day with THIS topic.

American schools, you are not alright.
Jokeaccountinc
03/06/2024
01:14 PM
#47
02fran posted...
The teacher was on some of that blue meth.

lmao it really is a chemist in New Mexico. Why is a chemist teaching sword fighting
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texanfan27
03/06/2024
01:24 PM
#48
The hell, I cant logic out how they got to sword fighting in Chen class. And with battle ready weapons.
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bigblu89
03/06/2024
01:26 PM
#49
This is insane,

I was in a play about King Arthur in 6th grade back in literally 1990, and we weren't even allowed to use prop swords becasue it was considered too dangerous. We had to make them out of cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil, and this dude has kids dueling it out with legit battle weapons.
It takes zero effort to be a good person.
Prestoff
03/06/2024
01:40 PM
#50
I get trying to make class more fun and interesting, but this is absolute negligence on the teachers part. Them dueling like this without having any safety measures in place, especially when they're using real weapons and not just props. Hell, my friend was in theater class and they were never allowed to play around with the props because they were still considered too dangerous, even when they were literally soft foam swords. Safety should absolutely be the #1 priority because human life is too valuable.
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