Teacher barred for 12 years after dragging student by hair
JACKSON, Miss. — Fired, criminally charged and with her state teaching license on the line, Linda Winters-Johnson admitted Wednesday that she’d been wrong to drag a special education student by the hair across the gym floor at Greenville High School.
“I am an imperfect human who has made a grave mistake,” she told Mississippi’s Teacher Licensure Commission
The commission, though, didn’t buy her remorse. After brief deliberations, a three-commissioner panel voted to bar Winters-Johnson from the classroom for 12 years.