Ben Fields

Superintendent: Officers Should Not Handle Minor Discipline

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s education superintendent says educators should ask officers to intervene only when students are being violent, not for minor classroom misconduct. Superintendent Molly Spearman said Tuesday her task force tried to take a commonsense approach to student discipline. She created the task force after a Richland County deputy yanked an 18-year-old student from her desk…

Black Parents to Protest Charge for Teen Tossed from Desk

Richland County Deputy Ben Fields, was fired after he was videotaped yanking a student from a desk in a Spring Valley High School classroom. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group of black parents plans to present a petition calling for officials to drop charges against a 16-year-old South Carolina high school student who was videotaped being yanked from her desk…