A student who was wounded after she was made to fight with swords during a high school chemistry class in 2022, is now suing the school district after having been disfigured by a blade in the incident, KRQE in Albuquerque reports.
During the May 2nd, 2022 chemistry class at Volcano Vista High School, the teacher (who was also sued but unnamed in the report) told the class that she had a “surprise” for them before pulling two katana-style swords from behind her desk. According to the Sacramento Bee, she then had two students duel one another, with the pair hitting the blades and swinging the weapons for a timed two-minute round, before turning the swords over to two girls, during which one of the girls was slashed on the wrist, severing tendons. Some of the battles were recorded and posted to students’ social media accounts.
The teacher, who had been hired as a special ed teacher the year before, reportedly said she was attempting to do a lesson on metallurgy, but she was fired by the school district.