Stacey Beckham, director of communications for Tift County Schools, confirmed that there was an incident that occurred at the school and that the child was not injured.
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She then proceeds to enter the classroom, but forcefully knocks her left knee into the back of the little boy sending him to the floor. Instructor Amelia Stripling quit her position with the school district after the boy’s parent s were notified, the station said.
Video surveillance shows her walking in a hallway before abruptly kneeing a then-3-year-old child with a backpack, causing him to fall.
A Georgia teacher resigned this week after surveillance footage captured her knocking down a 4-year-old special needs student earlier this month.
Sarah Patterson, the boy’s mother, said her son has special needs and has obtained a lawyer.
Amelia Stripling’s teacher page has since been removed from the school’s website. Officials said she had worked for the school system for more than 20 years.
School officials say the boy wasn’t hurt in the incident, though his mother told reporters she has hired an attorney.
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Tifton is about 200 miles south of Atlanta.
