Jay Grossman

hometownlife.com

A Seaholm High School parent accused of shoving a mathematics teacher was arraigned Friday on a misdemeanor count of assault and battery.

Marci Lizabeth Gallison, 46, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on a personal bond. As conditions of the bond, she was ordered to stay away from the high school and to avoid any contact with the Birmingham teacher.

The incident occurred Jan. 19, just after the woman’s daughter reportedly called the same teacher a racial slur on a school bus that was returning from a classroom field trip to see the movie “Hidden Figures.”

When the parent went to Seaholm to pick up her daughter from the field trip, she reportedly got into a heated argument with the teacher and pushed her. Witnesses told police the two women were arguing over what transpired during the altercation on the bus.

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Gallison is scheduled to return to court Feb. 21. Her lawyer, Jeffrey Decoster, was not immediately available for comment. School officials say any discipline involving the student will be handled privately.

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