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A Fort Worth, Texas high school teacher resigned this week after a video surfaced of him "slap boxing" one of his students.
Brad Graves was a teacher at Castleberry High School where he would challenge some of his 9th grade students to box him.
This evidently had been going on for quite a while. It wasn't until a video was posted on youtube of one of the matches did he finally get in trouble.
The match didn't end until the student said, "I am already bleeding, come on."
Another student, 15 year old Samuel Rubio said the teacher approached him during class saying, "let's go box in the restroom". Once there, the teacher started throwing hard "body shots".
Superintendent Gary S. Jones said he thought Graves had sparred with students at least three other times.
"We don't slap-box," Jones said. "We don't hit kids. It's unacceptable."
The teacher said he was just trying to motivate the students.
"His intentions might have been good," Jones said. "But his behavior was unacceptable. He was acting like one of the kids."
Graves resigned after meeting with school officials on Monday.
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