Parents of students at Meadowview Intermediate School in south suburban Country Club Hills are speaking out after they say a substitute teacher used physical force on a fourth grade student during an incident that left at least two students injured, including one that was pinned by a desk.
Parents and family members of some of the students involved held a press conference in front of the school Friday, saying the school never notified them of the incident, and that they only learned of it from their children.
Ella McEwen, the grandmother of a fourth-grader involved, said during the press conference her grandson was chased by the teacher from the hallway into the classroom where the teacher proceeded to choke and hit him…