SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Two Upstate parents are looking for answers after they said a teacher threw away their first-grader’s shoes at Bryson Elementary in Simpsonville last week.
Six-year-old Taraji Edward’s mother said she knew there was a problem when she was getting her daughter ready for school the next day.
“She began to cry, ‘no mommy I don’t want to wear those sandals’,” Chartrese Edwards.
Edwards said she asked her daughter why, and that’s when her daughter told her the teacher had thrown them away the day before.
“I was messing with my shoes, and the teacher told me eight times or seven, and I never listened,” Taraji said.
She said the strap was bothering her in math class last week.
Source: SC teacher humiliates black 1st-grader by throwing away her shoes as punishment for fidgeting
