Teacher Allegedly Writes Reminder on Child’s Skin
A first-grade teacher has been placed on leave after she was accused of using an orange marker to scrawl “book” on the cheek, arms and legs of a 7-year-old boy who forgot to return an overdue library book, school officials said.
Mary Grace Blackstock will remain on leave indefinitely, until the investigation is complete, Jackson County School Supt. Andy Byers said Friday.
Mary Kuelper said Blackstock wrote on her son, Joseph, in front of his classmates Wednesday at North Jackson Elementary School in Jefferson, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.
“It was her way of reminding him to bring back the library book,” she said Friday. She is demanding an apology.
Kuelper said the incident was the first she had heard about the book being late. Blackstock could not be reached for comment.
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