‘I Did Pop Him’: Florida Teacher Unapologetic After Allegedly Slashing 5-Year-Old’s Face with Ruler, But Judge Allows Her to Keep Teaching 

A Florida teacher accused of slashing a 5-year-old student’s face with a ruler is now facing one felony count of child abuse after initially blaming the child for the injury. The teacher, 25-year-old Chrishawn Nicholson of Aspire Preparatory Academy in Miami Gardens, maintained the child cut himself while playing with a pencil in class. But prosecutors say they have a video of Nicholson admitting to the assault. “The allegations are that she hit a 5-year-old with a ruler, the 5-year-old required medical treatment, and there’s a video where she said, ‘I did pop him,'” a prosecutor said in court on Jan. 10, according to NBC 6 South Florida. A 5-year-old was left traumatized after an incident at school left him with a gash. (Credit: 7News Video Screengrab) The incident took place at the suburban K-5 charter school on the morning of Nov. 19. When Nicholson contacted the victim’s mother, she said her son had been playing with a pencil and “got cut near his eyebrow,” according to police documents obtained by NBC. The young boy was sent home with a deep gash that required a trip to the hospital and three stitches. “This was a gash. This wasn’t just a...