Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit June 29, 2010, No. 09-12623 (T.W. v. School Board)

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PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the questions whether a teacher violated a disabled student’s constitutional right to be free from excessive corporal punishment or discriminated against the student solely by reason of his disability, in violation of a federal statute, when the teacher physically and verbally abused the student on several occasions. The student, T.W.