Temper tantrums in an elementary school class are common, but not from the teacher.
But that's what happened in Sarasota, where a substitute teacher was arrested after he assaulted three students who he was supposed to be teaching.
The teacher, 55-year-old William Amory, reportedly got upset - not at the students - but because his teaching equipment wouldn't work. When the kids tried to help him out, Amory lost his cool and started throwing punches.
Talk about someone who might need a class in anger management.
According to Sarasota Sheriff's deputies, Amory was assigned to a second-grade class at Emma E. Booker Elementary School. Everything was going smoothly until he started having trouble with the classroom's electronic whiteboard, which broadcasts computer images onto a screen in front of the classroom.
The substitute became so agitated that he tossed the remote control for the whiteboard against a wall, deputies claim.
That's when a 7-year-old and 8-year-old boy tried to come help the teacher. Bad idea.
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Amory punched both of the boys in their stomachs and then when a 7-year-old girl got near the action, Amory pushed her over a chair.
One of the boys was hit twice and he threw up in front of the class. When the students tried to leave the classroom, Amory told them to get back in their seats.
School administrators didn't learn about the incident until the following day. One of the boys had to go to the hospital with chest pains.
When deputies showed up to question Amory about the incident, he admitted that he did become 'agitated' while teaching in the class.
Now he's in time out, charged with three counts of child abuse.
