No, the student who assaulted a teacher is not from Kibabii University, but rather from Rockdale’s Heritage High School. - iVerify Kenya

No, the student who assaulted a teacher is not from Kibabii University, but rather from Rockdale’s Heritage High School.

False

The video of a student physically attacking her teacher in class is from Heritage High School in Rockdale County, not Kibabii University in Kenya. Rockdale is a county in Georgia, United States.

The female student in the trending video, captured in January 2023, walks up to the teacher and confronts her, saying she doesn’t like the way she is talking to her, and then becomes more aggressive with her teacher, throwing her phone on the ground and leaving tongues wagging among the students.

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Verified Feb, 02 2023

Claim

A fourth-year student at Kibabii University confronts her lecturer after discovering a WhatsApp conversation between the lecturer and her boyfriend.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We found an article published on January 27, 2023 by WSB-TV, a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with ABC, in which the pupil was caught on camera getting into an argument with her teacher and attacking her, further breaking her leg.

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