Michigan teacher suspended for taunting boy stuck in chair

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'A Michigan school district has withdrawn its efforts to fire a teacher over a video showing a student stuck in a classroom chair and instead is suspending her for a year.

The Goodrich Area Schools board was to meet in closed session Thursday evening to consider the settlement with Nicole McVey.

The video was recorded in November at Oaktree Elementary School and released to a TV station in February. On it, the boy is shown with his head and arms stuck in an opening in the back of the chair.

McVey and Principal Michael Ellis taunted the fifth-grader, who has Asperger’s syndrome, according to Patrick Greenfelder, a lawyer for the boy’s family.

Ellis has since resigned. McVey had been fighting the district’s efforts to fire her.

According to Greenfelder, McVey can be heard questioning the boy about how he got stuck before asking, “Do you want to get Tasered?”

The boy is told that a maintenance crew is on the way to help, and Greenfelder has said Ellis is heard saying it’s really “not an emergency in their book.”

McVey apologized to the boy’s parents in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. The AP is not identifying the boy or his parents.'