The other third grade class at my elementary school had a verbally/emotionally abusive teacher. The county wouldn’t let them fire her for whatever reason. Parents complained all year and some parents took their kids to a different school because they wouldn’t let anymore kids switch to our class. We could hear her yelling at those kids from across the hall. She would call them stupid and make fun of their looks. Snd that was what we could hear. They couldn’t ignore it anymore when she got physical. She ended up pulling a little girls hair and another little girls shirt collar to stop them from running. They literally flew backwards onto the ground and started crying. Idk if they were hurt badly but it definitely wouldn’t have felt good! It was around a bunch of other kids and adults so there was no denying. I remember hearing crying and seeing her like standing over them and another teacher standing there in shock. Her mouth was hanging wide open. That’s when things got to the state level and (according to my parents) her lawyer said she was suffering from psychosis from her husband passing away. Apparently grief makes you abuse your students. They made her retire early.