Katherine Bodwell was shocked when her 7-year-old son got off the school bus with a huge bruise on his forehead earlier this month.

Bodwell brought her son inside and asked him what happened.

“He said he was kicked several times by his teacher,” Bodwell recalled.

Bodwell’s son, who has autism, is a student at Carlton Viveiros Elementary School. She wasted no time calling the school to find out exactly what happened.

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