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LARKSVILLE — A teacher locked a student in a restroom at the Wyoming Valley West School District, and now administrators have reported that teacher to police, officials say.
Charles Coslett, district solicitor, said Friday that a kindergarten student in the State Street Elementary School was acting out in class last week. The substitute teacher, provided through the intermediate unit’s Guest Teacher Program, locked the student in a restroom within the self-contained classroom. The teacher then proceeded to shut off the restroom’s lights.
“The teacher overreacted,” Coslett said.
The attorney also explained he made it “perfectly clear” to the LIU, of Kingston, that the teacher is not to “be deployed in the school district in the future.”
The guest teacher program was introduced to local school districts in 2016 due to a lack of substitutes. Becoming a guest teacher through the LIU is relatively simple and cheap compared to getting a state teacher’s license.
Coslett said police have been made aware of the incident, but he didn’t know of any pending charges.