DC Public Schools is reportedly coordinating with the Metropolitan Police Department to investigate an elementary school teacher accused of mistreating a child.
The school system is looking into an alleged incident in which a teacher at Lawrence Boone Elementary School locked a child in a closet.
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DCPS parent Bertrina Herndon told NBC News that she noticed her 7-year-old son’s shirt looked like someone had dragged him by the collar after picking him up at school on Monday.
“He said, ‘My teacher, she ripped my buttons off of my shirt,’” Herndon said.
The boy told his mother that one of his art teachers became angry with him and forcefully shoved him into a school utility closet as punishment for misbehaving.
“They didn’t know of the closet,” Herndon said. “They didn’t have any knowledge of this — the principal, security — no one did. They had to sit and ask my son questions before they entered the closet to make sure that his description matched the description, and it did — to a T.”
While DCPS did not confirm the incident occurred, the school system wrote in a statement to the Washington Examiner that it had been referred to MPD and DCPS internal departments “for further investigation.”
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“DC Public Schools is committed to the safety and well-being of every student,” DCPS spokesman Enrique Gutierrez wrote. “While we cannot comment on personnel matters, DCPS takes any allegations regarding student safety and wellbeing extremely seriously.”
