Montgomery County School District Sued Over Student Reprimand

As reported by an article in the Roanoke Times, the mother of a former Montgomery County elementary school student filed a $100,000 suit against the school board, alleging that her son suffered from anxiety and needed therapy after he was reprimanded at school. The article provides the following details:

According to the suit, Ratcliffe’s son, then a second-grader, who has autism, was “scolded, physically restrained and embarrassed” when a resource teacher and assistant principal reprimanded him on April 21. The three-page suit claims that the assistant principal and the resource teacher “had no training, educational guidance or experience” to deal with the boy’s impairment and that the incident caused him anxiety and panic attacks.