WASHINGTON – Parents are angry after finding out that a substitute teacher has been charged with assault and cruelty to children for allegedly slamming a student’s head into a desk in November.
Georgette Takideu, 47, of Hyattsville, Md. is free pending a hearing in D.C. Superior Court on Jan. 31, reports.
The alleged assault occurred at the Noyes Education Campus in Northeast.
Children told the school’s principal Takideu was “knocking on [the victim’s] head as if someone were knocking on a door,” according to charging documents.
One student said the teacher told the 11-year-old boy, “You should die young.”
The child sustained a concussion, according to medical records produced by his mother.
Takideu told police the children were throwing spit balls and “causing a ton of confusion,” court documents say.
“A teacher is supposed to be a parent and take care of the a child,” parent Julius Tumushabe tells WJLA. “We trust our teachers with our children to be the parents when we’re not there.”
