Teacher sues, says guards made her ‘mess herself’

TRENTON >> What a “mess.”

A Trenton teacher is suing the school board and Motivated Security Services after she claimed three guards refused to let her go to the bathroom during a shelter-in-place drill at Daylight/Twilight High School earlier this year.

The 64-year-old teacher was teaching a math class the morning of March 27, when the school was locked down for a drill, according to an discrimination lawsuit filed by her attorney Elizabeth Zuckerman.

The teacher alleges school protocol during these drills said the hallways were to remain clear and no one was allowed out unless for an emergency bathroom visit.

The teacher, who uses a walker to get around, had to go during the drill but claimed in the complaint that security guards Ariella White, Samiyee Kelley and Gretta Hendrick told her she had to stay in the classroom when they saw her in the hallways.

Kelley allegedly told White not to let the disabled teacher use the restroom, according to the lawsuit. Hendrick, the head security guard, didn’t “intervene” and let the teacher go relieve herself.

The teacher allegedly begged the guards to let her go to the restroom and “warned she would mess herself” if they didn’t let her.

Kelley allegedly told the teacher, “How dare you threaten us?”

Not getting anywhere with the guards, she headed for the restroom in the teacher’s lounge, the complaint said, but Kelley ran ahead of her and took the bathroom key out of the lounge, according to the lawsuit.

Kelley, walking back toward the disabled teacher with the key dangling, mocked her: “Now what are you going to do?”

The teacher “could no longer hold her bowels and proceeded to mess herself,” the lawsuit said.

All of it was caught on the school’s surveillance system, causing the teacher further “extreme embarrassment, humiliation and ongoing emotional distress.”

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