{"id":10375,"date":"2010-09-16T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10375"},"modified":"2010-09-16T21:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T01:54:14","slug":"an-exceptional-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10375","title":{"rendered":"AN EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/16\/1031247?sac=Home\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a local one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A teacher at J.W. Coon Elementary School has been suspended with pay after being accused of breaking the arm of a 5-year-old student, Cumberland County Schools officials said this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Bennett, 57, of the 6500 block Pacific Avenue in Fayetteville, is charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury and child abuse inflicting serious injury, said Debbie Tanna, a Cumberland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett is an exceptional children&#8217;s teacher, said Theresa Perry, schools spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett told investigators he was trying to use a &#8220;therapeutic hold&#8221; on the girl Tuesday when she was injured, Tanna said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A therapeutic hold refers to the technique used by school employees to restrain a child for a limited time in an attempt to calm the child and to prevent them from harming themselves or others,&#8221; Perry said in an e-mail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But just remember, schools are the safest place for students to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a local one: A teacher at J.W. Coon Elementary School has been suspended with pay after being accused of breaking the arm of a 5-year-old student, Cumberland County Schools officials said this morning. Jackie Bennett, 57, of the 6500 block Pacific Avenue in Fayetteville, is charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury and child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}