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Related: About this forumArkansas private school director accused of orchestrating 'child fight club'
May 2, 2025
JONESBORO, Ark. A private school director and three employees are facing charges of permitting child abuse for what the prosecuting attorney is calling a "makeshift child fight club."
The charges come after Craighead County Judge David Boling and Prosecuting Attorney Sonia Hagood found probable cause to charge the four people after law enforcement officials viewed a video showing a student striking another while in the presence of 50-year-old Mary Tracy Morrison, the school director.
The other three arrested are 45-year-old Kathrine Mae Lipscomb, 38-year-old Michael Bean, and 36-year-old Danielle Bell. All four a being charged with permitting child abuse.
Police say that in the video Morrison, who is the founder of The Delta Institute for Developing the Brain in Jonesboro, can be seen sitting in the middle of a circle with a students and surrounded by 18 other students.
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SheltieLover
(68,380 posts)Is she trying to foster the development of the reptilian part of the brain? Guessing so. Shame on them!!!
Irish_Dem
(69,993 posts)One of my neighbors is paying quite a bit of tuition money so her son can attend a highly respected private school. However the Spanish teacher speaks not one word of Spanish and lectures
from a book titled "Spanish for Dummies." There are more examples along the same lines.
ret5hd
(21,422 posts)Back to work losers
no breaks here!
No, payday is NEXT week. I know i told you it was this week, but its next week!
Dont make me call ICE!
LiberalArkie
(18,283 posts)Irish_Dem
(69,993 posts)At least the local Catholic schools here have high academic standards.
LiberalArkie
(18,283 posts)to just avoid having their kids to have to associate with "those other kids".
Irish_Dem
(69,993 posts)The spanish teachers actually speak excellent spanish.
So yes I wonder why so much money for a bad private school.
LiberalArkie
(18,283 posts)Irish_Dem
(69,993 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(7,936 posts)Midnight Writer
(24,031 posts)But to teach something you know nothing about?
That takes skill!
jls4561
(2,357 posts)IjustDontlikeRepugs
(731 posts)The first rule of child fight club is to not talk about child fight club.