Her 5-year-old daughter began acting out in class, crying and refusing to go to school because her classmates were picking on her.
Days later, a Salem County mother says she learned her child’s distress was not just about bullying, but about what she describes as ongoing abuse by a teacher’s aide that ended in an alleged violent classroom assault.
Mariah, who asked that her full name not be used to protect her daughter’s privacy, said she repeatedly tried to alert staff at John Fenwick Academy in Salem that her daughter was being bullied…