• Edith Craft, a special education teacher at an elementary school in New Jersey, has been suspended without pay by a state Appellate Division panel after slapping an 8-year old student in November 2010.
• According to the report, the disorderly student had struck Craft in the past, and was first to hit the teacher in the 2010 incident.
• Though Craft has never faced disciplinary action before the November ordeal, she will endure a 240 day suspension -- twice her original sentence -- and will not be eligible for her next pay raise.

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An elementary school special education teacher who struck a student in 2010 had the length of her suspension doubled but will keep her job...