Parent calls for cameras in SPED room, better training for substitute teachers

  • Last year’s Hot Springs School Board President Ryan Walz, third from left, holds the plaque which the 2023-24 board earned from the Associated School Boards of South Dakota (ASBSD) for meeting certain criteria in their ALL (Act. Learn. Lead.) recognition program. Other board members pictured include, from left, Dave Hoskins, Brian Jarding, (Walz), Katie Burchfield, Lloyd Morgan, Robert Preuss and Jason Mazzocchio. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
    Last year’s Hot Springs School Board President Ryan Walz, third from left, holds the plaque which the 2023-24 board earned from the Associated School Boards of South Dakota (ASBSD) for meeting certain criteria in their ALL (Act. Learn. Lead.) recognition program. Other board members pictured include, from left, Dave Hoskins, Brian Jarding, (Walz), Katie Burchfield, Lloyd Morgan, Robert Preuss and Jason Mazzocchio. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
    HOT SPRINGS – During the Public Participation portion of last week’s Oct. 14 meeting of the Hot Springs School Board, a parent of a non-verbal child in the special needs department spoke about an alleged Sept. 12 incident at the school in which her son was reported to have been “slapped (on the hand) with significant force by a substitute teacher.”The parent, Kelli Rhoe, prefaced...

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