From Friday’s decision by Judge Ronnie Abrams in Samuels v. Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science (S.D.N.Y.), Samuels’ allegations:
On June 9, 2022, one of Samuels’ students “threw a hard ball that hit Samuels in the head, causing a concussion.” Upon being struck, Samuels immediately reported the incident and her injuries to Defendants. Although Noah [the school’s founding principal] “instructed Samuels to not give the police any information about the student who had assaulted her,” she nonetheless began reporting the incident to the police. Samuels asserts that Noah then physically confronted her, “approach[ing] her within a few inches of her face … and angrily ask[ing] if she really wanted to get a kid involved in the criminal justice system.” In response to Noah’s alleged “attempt[ ] to prevent her from reporting the incident,” Samuels “objected” and continued to report the incident to the police officers…
