Teacher admits to putting hands around students’ necks

Published October 20, 2011 4:00am ET



When Susan L. Burke grabbed her students, was she breaking up fights and engaging in role-playing exercises, or was she intentionally choking the first-graders to punish them?

That’s the question a Montgomery County Circuit Court jury will decide in the case of the former Greencastle Elementary School teacher facing trial on assault charges.

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