SUIT SAYS AIDE BULLIED, DRAGGED STUDENT:

AN EX-HARLEM elementary school aide with a “history of assaulting students” dragged a kindergartner by his shirt — causing deep scratches on his chest — according to a $10 million suit his mom filed against the city.

The former Countee Cullen/Public School 194 elementary aide, referred to in court papers as Mr. Kaseem, allegedly dragged the boy off a school stage on Dec. 7, 2017, according to his mother’s Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit. School administrators didn’t tell the mom, Bernadette Torres, about the alleged incident, the suit says.

Torres found out when her son, identified as “JL” in court papers, got home.

“I stated to him, ‘Why is your shirt ripped? I don’t have money to buy new ones,’ ” Torres said in an interview with the Daily News.

JL told his mom “an adult with a green shirt and a beard aggressively grabbed him by his shirt and dragged him,” according to the suit filed Monday.

The aide, whom the Education Department identified as Kaseem Gordon, has been suspended since February, officials said. The agency also said Gordon, 29, worked for an organization that provides services to schools. The group, identified in court papers as Partnership With Children, told The News Gordon was fired.

Torres has named the city, the Education Department and Partnership With Children as defendants. She has not sued Gordon.

Reached by phone, Gordon said he worked for Partnership with Children at Cullen but was not familiar with Torres’ specific claims. When first asked about accusations, however, Gordon alluded to an incident, saying he “was cleared . . . there was no wrongdoing on my end.” He insisted he’s still on good terms with the organization.

When Torres asked her son’s teacher about the incident — and also later the school’s assistant principal — both Cullen employees said Gordon was involved in the alleged incident, she said.

“Mr. Kaseem has a history of assaulting students at the school, including instances of smacking, pushing and aggressively grabbing elementary school students,” the suit claims. “JL was another victim of Mr. Kaseem’s actions that were known to the school and condoned by its administration,” the court papers say.

The school principal agreed to meet with Torres, but then was a no-show, the mom said. Torres said she met with the assistant principal and Gordon instead.

Gordon claimed “he was breaking up a fight between JL and another student,” but “Mr. Kaseem later changed his story and admitted he did grab JL off of the stage but may or may not have ripped JL’s shirt when he dragged him,” the suit contends.

Torres also said school administrators never gave her the identity of the other student or an incident report. She requested a safety transfer for her son, who is now 6, but he has not been moved.

“I have to basically bribe him to go to school,” Torres said. “He says, ‘I want to stay home, I don’t want to go.’ He’s like, ‘Why are you still taking me to this place?’ ”

An Education spokesperson said, “This individual has been suspended from working in our schools since February. The Law Department will review the legal complaint.”

Partnership With Children said it takes “a matter like this very seriously, but have not had an opportunity to review the complaint yet.”