Kid hit in head during shot put lesson by teacher assistant gets $200K
JACKSON, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – A teacher assistant who tried to show students how to perform the shot put but instead hit one of them in the head has cost his school district $200,000. The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Jan. 15 affirmed a judge’s ruling against the Shelby County Board of Education, which was sued after a demonstration-gone-wrong resulted in a shot hitting student Kenji Lewis in the side of the head. The accident happened in 2016, when Lewis was a sixth-grader at Geeter M...
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