A Brooklyn principal who beat a boy in his c🃏are “nearly broke” the child’s collarbone, according to a lawsuit filed by the student’s family.
Machael Spencer-Edwards, best known for excluding students🧸 from a Valentine’s Day party because🙈 the kids didn’t wear pajamas, was arrested ✨after he “savagely beat”🐠 Shema McKenzie’s son in a stairwell.
The PS 202 principal zeroed in on McKenzie’s then 7-year-old son, Hasheem Welch, in the cafeteria on March 1ꦯ3, 2017, after the boy, who had allegedly hit a teacher, ignored Spencer-Edwards’ instructions to stop running around, and to remove a hoodie the youngster was wearing.
Hasheem has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and “oppositional defiant disorder” and “could not quiဣckly comply,” the mom claims in her Brooklyn Supreme Court filing.
That’s when the clothing-obsessed principal hauledꦚ Hasheem into a stairwell, where he grabbed him “by the collar, smacked him, choked him around the neck, and kicked him repeatedly for disobeying his order to take off his hoodie and sit down,” according to court papers.
McKenzie’s son, who came home with severe bruising and cuts on his neck a🤡nd back, wasn’t the only victim𒐪, the mom charges.
McKenzie alleges she’s spoken with “at least six other parents who have told her that Principal Edwar🎃ds has savagely beaten their child also, they have informed the school, but nothing was done about it.”
Spencer-Edwards pleaded guilty last month to endangerܫing the welfare of a child, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said. He had to forfeit his teaching license and will have the charge reduced to harassment if he completes anger management, according to a spokeswoman.
A woman who answered a cell phone for the 🐻form💫er principal said he declined comment.
The Department of Education said it intends to fire Spencer-Edwards, calling his behavior “deeply tr🔴oubling.” The principal was reassigned away from sꦚtudents after the 2017 incident.
“We will pursue terminat🌞ion,” a spokesman to𒉰ld The Post.
In 2016 The Post revealed how Spencer-Edwards personally chec𒁏ked — and cruelly rejec🦩ted — young students who weren’t wearing pajamas for a three-hour “Valentine’s Pajama Jam” in the gym of the East New York school.