The yelling happened in 2020 when the boy apparently got upset in class and threw a clipboard that hit his teacher. The cops claimed the boy was defiant when they tried to take him back to school.
Two years after police officers screamed at and handcuffed a kindergarten student, local leaders continue to call for a resolution to the family’s lawsuit, even after a judge cleared the county from liability. During a virtual event on Monday, Council Member Tom Hucker again called on attorneys to admit that the officers harmed the boy,
Now, Pfeiffer is switching to a job in the school system’s central office.
In a letter to Thurgood Marshall parents on Friday, MCPS Chief of Teaching, Learning and Schools Ruschelle Reuben wrote that it would be Pfeiffer’s last day at the school and she will move into a new central office position.
Pfeiffer’s new job will be coordinator of summer programs and tutoring in the Office of Teaching Learning and Schools, MCPS spokeswoman Gboyinde Onijala told Bethesda Beat on Friday. Pfeiffer starts the new job on Monday, with a salary of $119,870, Onijala said.
Asked whether the change in position is related to the controversy over the incident at East Silver Spring or any backlash at Thurgood Marshall Elementary, Onijala declined to comment, calling it a “personnel-related matter.”