Student Violence Against Teachers Spikes In North Carolina

Wadesboro, NC
There's a rise in the number of teachers attacked at schools in North Carolina.
Right now, a local teacher is suspended without pay after slapping a student who she says attacked her.

"I got in front of him and said you need to pull your pants up. So he pushed me and said get the ‘F’ out of my face," said Pat Frost, Anson County High School teacher.

Frost says an 18 year-old student attacked her in the hallway during summer school.

When she followed him to the parking lot to ask his name, she says he lunged at her so she smacked him. Frost says he then punched her.

The school board has suspended her without pay.

"Tell me. If it were your daughter who was pushed and cursed at in this manner... would it be ok for me to walk away because that's what the school system is saying... I should have just walked away," said Frost.

Frost’s attorney says what happened between Frost and the student at Anson High School raises bigger concerns about a growing issue - violence against teachers.

There were more than 1, 156 assaults on school personnel in North Carolina last year.
That's up almost 200 from the previous school year and almost 300 from 889 cases in 2006.