{"id":438813,"date":"2026-09-17T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438813\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:30:10","slug":"fort-worth-teacher-accused-of-encouraging-toddler-fight-club-at-daycare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438813\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth teacher accused of encouraging \u201ctoddler fight club\u201d at daycare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth parents Heather and Richard Harris have filed a lawsuit against their child\u2019s school over accusations his teacher encouraged the kids to fight one another.<\/p>\n<p>Security camera footage obtained by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/article\/fort-worth-daycare-sued-alleged-child-fight-22433540.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Morning News<\/a> showed one teacher holding onto a student, encouraging another to punch him, with another teacher standing off to the side observing the incident without intervening.<\/p>\n<p>The Harrises have filed a lawsuit against Arka Risinger Educators LLC, which operates the Arka Montessori Academy of Risinger, located on West Risinger Road.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit accuses the school negligence, gross negligence, and failing to properly hire, train and supervise its employees. The couple is seeking more than $1 million in damages, and for a jury to determine the final amount.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/listen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LISTEN <\/a>on the Audacy App<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/newsletter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign Up<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow 100.3 JACK-FM<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jackfmdfw\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth parents Heather and Richard Harris have filed a lawsuit against their child\u2019s school over accusations his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-438813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}