CYPRESS, Texas – Video appears to show a Cy-Fair ISD elementary school instructor pushing a 10-year-old special needs student out of his chair onto the ground.
The kid says it’s all because he wouldn’t stop tapping his pencil on the desk. What’s worse, the family says the incident caught on camera back on February 6 isn’t the first time the teacher laid his hands on their son.
The family says no matter what, no grown man, especially not a teacher should be touching their child, and the fact the child has serious health concerns make matters even worse.
“You shouldn’t be doing it, and he been doing that to me since January,” said Destyn Dural. “He said that you better stop playing with me boy and then he put his hands in my face.”
Destyn’s parents say they learned about the abuse back on February 6 when another one of those incidents was caught on camera from various angles.
“If you watch the first video, it’s his left arm extended but he don’t fall in the video so if you watch both videos the second video shows him falling,” said Desmond Dural, Destyn’s father.
In addition to a learning disability and speech impediment, Destyn’s parents say he was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus also known as water on the brain.
“He has a, it looks like a vein but it’s not a vein. It’s actually a tube,” said Destyn’s mother, Trerosilyn Carston.
Destyn has a permanent shunt to drain excess fluids from his head and has already undergone two brain surgeries. He says that makes what his teacher did to him earlier this month even scarier.
“I was sitting down tapping a pencil and he told me to stop, and I didn’t stop and he said ‘I guess you want to get pushed out of the chair’ and he pushed me out of the chair, and I fell and hit my head,” Destyn said.
“He’s not there to teach these kids and protect these kids at all, you’re abusing these kids,” Carston said.
The family now teaming up with activist Candice Matthews
“And what’s going to happen, and I want Cy-Fair ISD to know, the hammer of accountability is finna come to your doorstep,” Matthews said.
Matthews says she’s helping the family push for criminal charges against that teacher, notifying CPS, and filing a grievance with the school district with plans to escalate the issue to the Texas Education Agency
In response, the school district issued KPRC 2 the following statement:
“After learning about the incident, the substitute teacher was immediately removed from working with the student, the campus began investigating, and the parents were notified. The substitute teacher has since been removed from the campus.”