From The Arizona Republic
The Scottsdale School Board moved Thursday to fire a teacher who it said hit students for speaking Spanish in class instead of English.
Kim Youngblood, who teaches English Language Learner students, told district investigators in a report released Thursday that she was enforcing the district’s English immersion program and did not intend to injure the children.
Youngblood, who taught seventh-graders at Ingleside Middle School, described the physical contact as “a gentle touch on the shoulders or a tap on the wrist.”
The Scottsdale Unified School District investigation said Youngblood hit eight students at the east Phoenix school. The district said the hits ranged from slaps on the forearm to strikes with a pen. Some children said they were hit multiple times.
NewMexiKen can remember a particular nun he ran across in the 6th grade who should have been fired.