KILGORE — A Kilgore ISD teacher accused of slapping an autistic child did so because she was surprised to have been slapped by the pre-kindergarten student, her attorney said Thursday. The 57-year-old teacher, who has not been identified, was placed on paid administrative leave after the Dec. 8 incident, the district said. She was not fired, as officials said Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The allegations stemmed from a Kilgore Heights Elementary School trip to visit Santa Claus at the Kilgore Public Library. According to Superintendent Jody Clements, the 4-year-old student became upset and slapped the teacher, who slapped him back. Her attorney said she has been a teacher for at least 30 years and it was a defensive move. The teacher has been interviewed by Kilgore police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KILGORE — A Kilgore ISD teacher accused of slapping an autistic child did so because she was surprised to have been slapped by the pre-kindergarten student, her attorney said Thursday. The 57-year-old teacher, who has not been identified, was placed on paid administrative leave after the Dec. 8 incident, the district said. She was not … Continue reading Police Investigate Report of Slapped Student<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 02:44:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150220,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149963\/revisions\/150220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}