Teacher Disciplined For Writing On Boy

A first-grade teacher was placed on leave after she was accused of using an orange marker to scrawl “book” on the cheek, arms and legs of a 7-year-old boy who forgot to return an overdue library book.

Mary Kuelper said Blackstock wrote on her son, Joseph, in front of his classmates Wednesday at North Jackson Elementary School in Jefferson, northeast of Atlanta.

“It was her way of reminding him to bring back the library book,” she said Friday.