Parents defend teacher in duct tape incident
Parents, friends and community members gathered Wednesday outside I.S. 292 in East New York to show support for the teacher accused of duct taping a student's mouth. Kenyatte Hughes, the band director
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Nov 5, 2015, 5:03 AM
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Updated 3,282 days ago
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Parents, friends and community members gathered Wednesday outside I.S. 292 in East New York to show support for the teacher accused of duct taping a student's mouth.
Kenyatte Hughes, the band director at I.S. 292, allegedly duct taped a 9-year-old boy's mouth shut. He maintains that he was trying to teach the student a lesson about slavery.
Parents say they believe what is happening to Hughes is a witch hunt propagated by the principal and administration.
Hughes is charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a weapon.
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