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Marathon City teacher fired

MVA instructor terminated over ‘corporal punishment’allegations
Marathon City teacher fired
EVIDENTIARY HEARING - Teacher Jessica McCarthy, front left, and her attorney, Ben Hitchcock Cross face questioning from the Marathon School Board during an evidentiary hearing held in public last Wednesday. From left to right are school district attorney Davis Runde and board members Paula Vesely, Lia Klumpyan, Jodi DeBroux, Beth Seubert and Ted Knoeck. The board voted to terminate McCarthy over allegations of corporal punishment. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN O’BRIEN
Marathon City teacher fired
EVIDENTIARY HEARING - Teacher Jessica McCarthy, front left, and her attorney, Ben Hitchcock Cross face questioning from the Marathon School Board during an evidentiary hearing held in public last Wednesday. From left to right are school district attorney Davis Runde and board members Paula Vesely, Lia Klumpyan, Jodi DeBroux, Beth Seubert and Ted Knoeck. The board voted to terminate McCarthy over allegations of corporal punishment. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN O’BRIEN

A Marathon City teacher was fired last week after she allegedly engaged in “corporal punishment” as a means of disciplining a pair of disruptive students during a class on Sept. 9.

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