The parents of a Black high school student are suing the Williamsport Area School District in Pennsylvania after their son was strapped to a medical backboard by a teacher for appearing to sleep during class.

The incident occurred on May 28 in the classroom of Richard Caschera, who was hired by Williamsport Area High School three weeks earlier to teach in the homeland security program of the school’s career and technical education program.

Caschera had no prior teaching experience and held a temporary teaching certificate that did not require any education credentials, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania on Aug. 21 and obtained by Atlanta Black Star.

The class was taking a test that day, and the minor plaintiff, a junior, identified in the lawsuit as “N

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