Three incidents involving two schools–Flagler Palm Coast High School and Old Kings Elementary–kept school resource deputies busy Tuesday over the school day. One student was stomped by several others in a fight after school. Two students face charges in separate incidents, including a 12-year-old boy accused of pot possession.
The first incident involved a 17-year-old boy at Flagler Palm Coast High School. The boy had been speaking with Matt Johnson, one of three deans at the school, in reference to “recent issues on campus that are becoming a safety concern,” according to the student’s arrest report.
Two school resource deputies was summoned. As they tried speaking to him “to get him to understand why he was in trouble,” he allegedly became disrespectful and racially offensive to one of the deputies, using a slur. “You think I’m scared of you because you have all that shit on?” the student went on to say as the deputies advised him it was in his “best interest to stop.”
The student stood up and “bowed up in an aggressive manner towards me,” a deputy reported, and the commotion became such, as the student refused to comply with the deputies’ commands, that the dean’s office area had to be cleared of other students. But the student was eventually handcuffed and detained, and charged with disruption of a school function and resisting arrest without violence.
The student had not been facing charges–it was strictly a disciplinary issue–before his confrontation with the deputies, and had no prior criminal record. He was to be charged under a civil citation program, a diversion program that means the student won’t have a criminal record even after Tuesday’s incident, assuming he complies with the program’s conditions.
Soon after school let out, deputies had again to respond, this time to the parking lot adjacent to the FPC campus, near Olive Garden, which students regularly use as an unofficial lot. They’d been dispatched on reports of a fight involving several juveniles.
The victim, a 19-year-old woman, told deputies she’d been having issues with a female student and working with school faculty “about aggression and unwanted attention” from her, according to an incident report. The victim, who was injured in the fight and required first aid, had before school let out completed a statement to a dean detailing issues at school. Over the course of the day she began hearing rumors that the alleged assailant would “jump” her in the parking lot after school.
As she approached the vehicle she was going to, she was confronted by the other student, who is 18, and who “immediately began to punch her in the face with closed fists,” the report states. The fight escalated, others got involved, tripping her and causing her to fall. She said “several other students kicked and punched her while she was on the ground, but she was unable to identify them,” the report states.
As the alleged victim was speaking to a deputy, she received a video of the altercation by phone. “The video shows the events as [the victim] described, but also shows several other students kicking, punching, and stomping on [the victim] after she fell to the ground,” the report states. The victim was pursuing charges, and deputies said they’d investigate during the week and seek to identify her assailants.
Almost at the same time, Old Kings Elementary Vice Principal Nick Schell summoned a school resource deputy regarding a 12-year-old boy allegedly in possession of pot. The deputy found two small “baggies” of what looked like a green leafy substance in the boy’s backpack–about 4 grams’ worth. (As the deputy and Schell were discussing the matter, the boy himself said it was just 4 grams.)
The 12 year old already had a criminal record: he was on felony probation. He was charged with pot possession and a probation violation.
Outside Looking Out says
Flagler County – Little Miami. So glad I got out of there. Crooked politicians, failed school system, greed and corruption.
Thomas says
The Deputies…and faculty members…should not have to put up with these punks. Expel them.
Disturbed parent says
Why is there a person with a felony at an elementary school? And why as a parent do I not have the right to know that a convicted felon is in school with my child everyday? This is a major problem!
Trailer Bob says
Outside looking out, calm down now. Not all of us are school kids with undeveloped brains and parents who apparently cannot control the children they created. It is a large world, so don’t make it so small. Most people are good and you will see that once you age a little. Peace out!
ASF says
Nineteen year olds are still in High school?
Gary R says
If you you flunk and grade then yes there are 19 year olds in High School.
Willy Boy says
Precisely!
Bill harvey says
I would be willing to bet that the 13 year old is a reflection of the home he comes from
Rich & Wanda Harnage says
Yes Sir!!! Remember, 9th. grade is tough to pass. Have hope though, should be able to pass in a couple more years Then 10th. grade will probable take another 5 or 6 years. The saga continues. Probably make a movie out of it.
Pumkin says
Well i guess thats about 99% of parents who can’t control their kids. Wonder why the parents are the ones that needs to be controlled.
oldtimer says
Seems like a lot of these wanna be thugs are growing up with a xbox game mentality
Mrs. Mc Doogle says
19 years old and still in high school. No wonder this country is in the mess its in. For the past 2 decades, NO Math, Science, Reading, Writing on a high level. These illiterate kids have learn ZERO, NOTHING, NODA, O, …….. Its very sad and pathetic that the liberal idiots involved in our children’s education only care about teaching socialistic interests and ” Rules for Radicals ” . You will reap what you sew !
TheyKnowWho says
My child was being manipulated in BTMS by a 13 yr old that had raped two 10 yr olds. Not only did nobody tell us, now hes back in FPC and nobody there knows. Your kids are not safe in these schools. NOBODY is supervising them or protecting them. Its all a facade.
Bc. says
Start holding parents responsible for there children and fine them. and expel the bad ones.
Christina says
What else but crime does an expelled student have to turn to? Expelling students gives them ZERO prospects of getting out of the situation they’re in.
Roger says
I know I sure wished we did a little more research on this place before moving here. And now we want to add 2000 more homes making this place another Jacksonville or South Daytona. A damn shame.
Steve says
Agree they dont need that BS cya
Steve says
Why Law Suits It gets everyone’s attention when Reputations, money and power are on the line.
Outside Looking Out says
Well Trailer Bob (Hmmm?) I call it like I see it and Flagler has become quite bad. As for aging a little, I’ve already aged – a lot, I’m not a school kid, my parents have been dead 20 years and I’m not making the world small, it is small. Perhaps you should leave the trailer park now and then and take a look around.
Person says
That’s not the story, the whole thing was planned her car was park away from where the fight happened, she put her stuff down and walked back to fight.
Concerned parent says
That’s the problem! As a parent to come to the class I have to pass a background check. But yet theee criminals are able to interact with children all day! Talk about letting the wolf into the chicken coop! Parents need to start waking up and knowing what is going on at school. We need to demand that those with criminal record are removed! No hiding behind a minor facade. If you commit the crime you are responsible for the consequences! I don’t want these kids near my kids!!
Me says
Under the age of 16 the state has to provide school. So, the child can go to school online, another school, or an alternative school. Whatever this county has in place would be what they can choose from.
I think the prospects being meek for them is a choice they are making.
Expulsion also keeps other student’s safe. Think about the majority, not the kid who brought it on.
From says
Right🤣🤣and how would minors go to jail for fighting somebody older than them ?
Angered Parent says
The schools know about these kids in advance. Matanzas is no better. My kid has been the victims of bullies multiple times and the school just ‘talks’ to the kid and sends him back out. The schools should be held accountable as much as the bullies they populate our schools with.
Concerned parent says
There seems to be a many things we r not aware of. Why aren”t the charter buses required to have seat belts when transporting our children on field trips? I understood that Florida had seat belt laws. This is not safe!