A mother was banned from her daughter’s school after threatening a classroom full of children.
On May 14, Christian Tinsley went into a classroom with students who she believed were bullying her daughter at Niguel Hills Middle School in Laguna Niguel, Calif., CBSLA reported. The school’s principal, Tim Reece, informed parents of the visit in an email on the same day.
Tinsley entered the class during the second period of the day and said she was willing to fight the parents or other adult relatives of any child who bullied her daughter.
“If ya’ll bully my daughter, if you look at her the wrong way, if you breathe the wrong way, send your mom to me. Sisters, aunts, anybody over 18, I’ll [expletive] them all up. Do you understand me?” Tinsley told the class, in video posted to Twitter by Ciella Harrison.
Tinsley said that a group of boys had bullied her daughter for months, according to CBSLA, and that the bullying got worse over time, despite school intervention.
“Leave my daughter alone. I’m not going to say it again. If I have to go to every class I’ll do that. I’m letting you know right now: Any mom, any sister, can catch these hands. Okay?” Tinsley continues, in the video.
Tinsley said that she decided to enter the classroom because when she drove to the school to drop her daughter off, her daughter started crying and begging her to stay in the car.
Video of a mother’s anti-bullying rant inside a California classroom has gone viral: https://t.co/bUGWrWKzYA
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“She made a comment to me that if she wasn’t as strong as she was, she would have killed herself,” Tinsley told CBSLA, “That’s when Mama Bear mode went into effect.”
In addition to months of bullying, a boy was suspended after sexually harassing Tinsley’s daughter, on May 10, the Associated Press reported.
“Kids are committing suicide every day because they’re getting bullied, and I don’t want that for my daughter,” Tinsley said. “And so, what do I do when my daughter’s afraid to go to school?”
“Ya’ll better leave her alone. No messages online. Don’t post nothing about her. None of that. None of that. Ya’ll don’t know me. Ya’ll think ya’ll bullies? I’m the big bully,” Tinsley continued, during the classroom rant displayed via Twitter.
The mother explained to the class that she was there to defend her daughter because boys were doing the bullying. She claimed that if it was girls doing the bullying, her daughter could fight them.
“Pick them up. [expletive] whippings, [expletive] whippings, for free. For free! You ain’t even got to pay for it,” Tinsley continued in the classroom rant.
Reece said in the email that the teacher contacted the school’s front office and the assistant principal escorted Tinsley out of the school.
Tinsley thinks she could have handled the situation a little better, according to CBSLA.
“I think that sometimes when you’ve done everything you can do the way you’re supposed to do it, and it hasn’t been resolved, then sometimes as a parent…you have to decide if you’re going to go a step further and deal with any consequences,” Tinsley told CBSLA.
Reese said that the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was asked to investigate the situation, CBSLA reported.
“Leave my daughter alone and I’m not gonna say it again,” she continued, while later offering “free a** kicking” tickets. https://t.co/LejFL4LqUZ
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