A troubling allegation out of Detroit has left one family demanding answers after a 9-year-old student said a substitute teacher not only struck him, but directed other children to physically overpower him inside a fourth-grade classroom.
In a report for WXYZ-TV Detroit, Randy Wimbley said the child, C’Antae Fleming, described being punched, pinned down, and choked at Robert Burns Elementary-Middle School on the city’s west side. According to the boy and his mother, the incident left him with a black eye, cuts on his face, and, according to a doctor, a concussion.
Detroit Public Schools Community District has placed the substitute teacher on administrative leave while the matter is investigated. Wimbley reported that the district says the woman cannot accept substitute assignments anywhere in DPSCD schools during the investigation, and that any findings will be referred to law enforcement…