CINCINNATI
Personnel records show verbal reprimands were given to a southwest Ohio teacher and teacher's aide now accused in
a lawsuit of humiliating an 11-year-old by tying his long hair into ponytails.
Records also show that the Boyd E. Smith Elementary School employees say the boy participated in what they considered a joke in September and that he joked and laughed about it. The reprimands came in the days after the incident.
The boy's mother filed the federal lawsuit this week against the sixth-grade teacher, the teacher's aide, the Milford school
district and other school officials. The lawsuit filed by Amanda Anoai alleges that the school employees made the boy show the ponytails to other classrooms and encouraged students to mock him.
The lawsuit also charges that the boy's constitutional rights were violated.
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