SCHOOL DISTRICT SETTLES TEACHER ABUSE LAWSUITS

A school district in West Virginia has reached settlements totaling over eleven-million dollars in lawsuits involving a teacher who abused special education students in her classroom. Nancy Boggs was sentenced to ten years in prison after being caught on camera abusing several students at Holz Elementary School in Charleston in September 2021. She admitted to hitting one student with a cabinet door, pulling her hair and pulling a chair out from under her. The Boggs case helped lead to the strengthening of a state law that requires cameras in classrooms. Video footage must now be kept on hand for a full year instead of three months and must be regularly viewed by administrators.