A fifth-grader with ADHD slapped his teacher. The lawsuit alleges the teacher then grabbed him by the back of the neck and pushed him out of the classroom.
SEATTLE — A Seattle Public Schools (SPS) employee is speaking out two years after he says a teacher assaulted his 11-year-old son with. That teacher remains in the classroom.
Kenneth Smith Jr., an instructional assistant in special education for the district, filed a lawsuit in June 2025 alleging that a music teacher physically attacked his son during an incident at Emerson Elementary School on March 11, 2024.
“There were multiple times he came home crying,
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