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The Bexar County Medical Examiner dominated the demise Brandeis Excessive Faculty worker Alfred “Mr. Fred” Jimenez a murder.
An educational assistant at San Antonio’s Brandeis Excessive Faculty who died final weekend sustained his life-ending harm throughout an interplay with a scholar within the college’s gymnasium, a Northside Impartial Faculty District spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
NISD spokesman Barry Perez revealed the brand new element in regards to the harm to Alfred “Mr. Fred” Jimenez after a photograph reportedly exhibiting the 73-year-old educator mendacity on the ground of a campus gymnasium circulated on the r/SanAntonio Reddit web page. The Present will not publish the photograph out of respect for Jimenez’s household.
Though Perez declined to verify specifics in regards to the incident, he did say on-line rumors {that a} scholar hurled a ball at Jimenez, inflicting him to fall are “not in line with experiences from campus.”
As an alternative, NISD officers preserve Jimenez “fell to the ground and sustained a head harm” whereas attempting to “redirect” a special-needs scholar. The Bexar County Medical Examiner on Wednesday dominated the demise a murder brought on by blunt-force head harm.
The Northside American Federation of Academics — NISD’s trainer union — issued an announcement Tuesday blaming Jimenez’s demise on the state’s lack of public schooling funding.
“The fault for the mindless tragedy doesn’t lie with Fred, who did precisely what he was purported to, or the scholar, whose wants haven’t been met,” Northside AFT President Melina Espiritu-Azocar mentioned in an announcement. “The villains on this story sit within the governor’s mansion and the state Capitol, far-off from the implications of their continuous undermining and endangerment of our faculties.”
Northside AFT’s assertion mentioned each trainer has the fitting to really feel secure whereas finishing up their duties. That may’t occur till Texas faculties are adequately funded, the group added.
Texas persistently ranks among the many backside of U.S. states in per-student funding for public schooling. Consultants additionally warn that Gov. Greg Abbott’s college voucher plan might additional defund public faculties within the state.
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