A Shawnee, Kansas, elementary school teacher caught on camera kicking a 5-year-old student could face criminal charges for the Feb. 21 incident, pending an inquiry by the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office. Video of the interaction shows the 5-year-old girl crawl onto a bookshelf in the Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School library as the other kids file out. The teacher, identified as Crystal Smith, pulls the girl onto the floor and walks away, then returns and chats briefly with another teacher across the room. The first-year teacher was fired on March 25, following an investigation by school administrators, reports the Kansas City Star. The girl told a different teacher that day she’d been hit, but the second teacher said she was unsure what had actually happened and therefore hadn’t reported it.

Source: Huffington Post May 02, 2019 20:03 UTC