Colorado teacher Harold Easton pleads no contest to hitting 10-year-old in the face with a book

Who knows?  Kids can be unruly.  But, this teacher admitted to losing his temper.   

 Fox News reports m a teacher who hit a 10-year-old boy in the face with a book during class at a Grand Junction elementary school has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor reckless endangerment.


The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports 66-year-old Harold Easton entered his plea Friday and will be sentenced Feb. 14. Prosecutors dismissed more serious charges of child abuse and third-degree assault.

Easton says he lost his temper with a group of disruptive students while he was substitute teaching Oct. 4 at Chatfield Elementary, and he smacked the fourth-grader with a teacher's instructional book.

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