The Schenectady Board of Education voted to accept the resignation of Maria Mawson, a librarian at Lincoln Elementary School, during its meeting Wednesday, Jan. 14.
The resignation follows widespread outrage over an image that appeared to show an adult with a foot placed on the back of a child lying face-down on the floor of a classroom, as Daily Voice reported.
The child’s mother, Ashley Rivera, told Albany television station WNYT that the student is her 8-year-old son, Gian, a second grader with ADHD who struggles to express himself. Rivera said she was never notified by the school about the incident and only learned of it after receiving the photo directly from another staff member…