North Carolina Substitute Teacher Ground And Pounds Handsy Teen

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — Rocky Mount police are looking into a fight between a substitute teacher and a student from Monday morning at Rocky Mount High School.

Police and Nash County Public Schools (NCPS) learned there was an altercation between a juvenile student and a substitute teacher over the confiscation of a cell phone. The fight occurred between the end of first period and the start of Connections Intervention period, according to NCPS.

"Why does the rules not apply to everybody else?" said the student. "That's my phone."

The substitute teacher, identified by police as Xaviera Steele, responds, "it does apply to everybody."

"No. You did not keep nobody else phone," said the student, who appears to attempt to grab the phone from the substitute teacher's hand as she's making a phone call.

"Don't touch me," the substitute teacher goes on to say several times. The confrontation then gets physical with the two swinging at each other and the substitute teacher ending up on top of the student.

The substitute teacher has been with the school system for approximately a year. As of Monday afternoon, no charges have been filed.