Brickbat: Some Horseplay

Melvin McClain, a teacher at Conyers Middle School in Georgia, faces one count of simple battery and three counts of cruelty to children after allegedly beating a 13-year-old student more than 20 times in the head and stomach. School surveillance video shows McClain grabbing the boy by the neck, clearing other students from the classroom, and carrying out the attack. A former “Teacher of the Year,” McClain described the actions as “horseplay.”