An Arkansas mother said her 5-year-old son’s kindergarten teacher forced him to clean a clogged toilet with his hands after he used the bathroom.
Ashley Murry said the incident happened at Crystal Hill Elementary School in North Little Rock.
“It is degrading for a child, so I don’t think any child should go through this,” she told KARK-TV, an affiliate of NBC. “Basically, they forced him to go to the bathroom and take out his feces and dirty tissue.”
Murry was not found by NBC News on Thursday.
She told KARK that she took her son out of the classroom after learning what happened and she wants the teacher to be fired.
“It needs to be exterminated because you don’t treat children like that. He’s a kid, ”Murry told the outlet.
When contacted on Thursday, the Pulaski County Special School District referred NBC News for statements online. Administrators said the incident, which occurred on Friday, is being investigated and that the professor is on administrative leave pending the outcome.
“The Pulaski County Special School District understands the concern and outrage over the incident at Crystal Hill Elementary on Friday, March 5. We take our students’ welfare concerns very seriously,” said the district. . “The health and safety of all of our students is always a priority. The human resources department continues to investigate the incident to ensure that due process is granted to everyone involved.”
Murry said the teacher told the school principal that she was trying to teach the child how not to stop the bathroom. Murry’s mother, Tami Murry, said she should have been treated differently.
“Do you want a child to put his hand there physically and clean the dresser? No, no, no, no. He is not a janitor, he is not a janitor, he is not maintenance. No, not at all,” said Tami Murry.
