An elementary school teacher has been placed on administrative leave after she was accused of making a 5-year-old student unclog a toilet with his bare hands.
According to WHAM, Ashley Murry’s 5-year-old son told her his kindergarten teacher made him clean out the toilet because he had used too much toilet paper.
Murry said she notified the school principal about the situation. Since then, the teacher has apologized but Murry doesn’t think that’s enough. “I feel like she needs to be trained, suspended, or terminated or something because that’s unacceptable,” she said. “I want my son to be in a safe environment, a good environment.”
“She got on the phone with me and she said she didn’t have an explanation, she just knew she was wrong. But she stated to the principal that she was trying to teach how not to stop up the toilet,” she told KARK.
The boy’s grandmother Tami Murry took to Facebook to express her anger as she wrote: “I want this teacher to never ever do this to another black male student again!!!” she wrote. “This child is 5 years old in kindergarten!!! He is a young black male and this was done to degrade him, belittle him, and it will cause him to have anxiety, he keeps telling everyone what happened!!!”
She added, “I don’t know if it’s racism or pure dislike for him, but something isn’t right.”
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