JACKSON, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – A teacher assistant who tried to show students how to perform the shot put but instead hit one of them in the head has cost his school district $200,000.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Jan. 15 affirmed a judge’s ruling against the Shelby County Board of Education, which was sued after a demonstration-gone-wrong resulted in a shot hitting student Kenji Lewis in the side of the head.
The accident happened in 2016, when Lewis was a sixth-grader at Geeter Middle School in Memphis. Marcus Mosby was showing the 30 to 40 students participating in track and field tryouts how to throw a shot.