A coach at Walter Cohen High School has been suspended for two months after she paddled several members of the girls basketball team, New Orleans public school officials said Monday.
Glynes Herbert, girls basketball head coach, was suspended Monday based on allegations raised last week by parents of one player, school system spokeswoman Tia Alexander said. At a team practice during the first week of October, Herbert paddled several members of the girls basketball team, Alexander said.
Herbert, who is also a social studies teacher at the school, will continue to teach during her suspension as coach, Alexander said. During her suspension, she will not be paid the extra money she gets as coach.
Herbert could not be reached for comment.
Orleans Parish School Board policy forbids corporal punishment of any kind, saying discipline measures “should be positive, constructive.” The policy defines corporal punishment as any act “which might be used to cause pain upon a child.”