With tears rolling down his cheeks, a 10-year-old boy from Kansas recounted the moment he says his elementary school teacher told him he will be shot by police when he grows up.
Malachi Pearson, who until recently was a student at Rosehill Elementary School in Lenexa, said he and his friend were playing and laughing together last week when the teacher pushed the boys away and confronted the fourth-grader.
‘She told me when you turn 16 and the police shoot you, the only person you can be mad at is yourself,’ Malachi told Fox 4 KC.
Reduced to tears: Malachi Pearson, 10, is seen weeping while recounting how his teacher allegedly told him that when he turns 16, he will be shot by police
Until recently, Malachi was a fourth-grade student at Rosehill Elementary School in Lenexa
Close to home: Malachi lost his father to gun violence when he was just seven months old (pictured together)
The young boy said the comment reduced him to tears because his father was shot and killed in Kansas City when Malachi was an infant.
Two days after Malachi’s alleged run-in with the teacher, his infuriated mother pulled him out of the school.
Mahogany Foster said she then got a call from the school district’s assistant superintendent telling her the teacher has been placed on leave.
Foster and her son are African-American. The teacher’s race has not been disclosed.
Shawnee Mission Schools spokeswoman Shawna Samuel on Tuesday told the station that ‘allegations of this nature are taken very seriously,’ but she would not confirm that the teacher has been reprimanded, citing a federal law that prohibits the disclosure of personnel matters
Malachi’s mother, Mahogany Foster (left), pulled the 10-year-old out of the school two days after his interaction with the teacher
Malachi is pictured posing in his football uniform with a Fox 4 KC reporter
DailyMail.com on Thursday reached out to the district seeking a comment on this case and was awaiting a reply.
Foster has since enrolled Malachi in a new school, but she wants his former teacher to apologize to him for what she had said.
‘It’s just made me scared to send him to any school,’ the mother added.
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