VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Beach middle school teacher is back on the job after he was placed on leave when a video of a confrontation with a student circulated online.
WAVY-TV reports that Karl Whitley returned to the classroom Thursday at Kempsville Middle School. Whitley, a 30-year teaching veteran, was placed on leave in January after a video showed him engaging with a student in his eighth-grade civics class.
In the video, he pulls AirPods out of the student’s ears after telling him to remove them several times. His students came to his defense after he was put on leave.
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