By Tim Binnall
A substitute teacher at a Michigan elementary school has been fired after she gave a lesson on the Ouija Board to her class of second graders. The eyebrow-raising incident reportedly occurred last week at Freeman Elementary in the city of Flint. For reasons unexplained, the unnamed teacher showed the youngsters a video on the infamous divination device and promised to bring one of the 'talking boards' to class the following day. As one might imagine, the misguided discussion of the proverbial dark arts did not sit well with parents when they learned about the lesson.
Billie Deville Mitchell, the mother of one of the students, told a local TV station that the video was particularly traumatizing for her daughter. "She has not been able to sleep at night," the mom lamented, "it is the same for me knowing that she is still having reactions to whatever she learned in the classroom." After Mitchell and other parents took their concerns to the school district, administrators issued a swift response wherein they apologized for the unfortunate incident that, they stressed, was not a part of the official curriculum.
As for the teacher at the center of the strange scandal, she was subsequently dismissed by the company responsible for providing substitute staffing to the school district. Oddly enough, the incident in Flint is not the first time that a Ouija Board has spelled trouble at an elementary school. In March of 2017, a Milwaukee teacher was placed on administrative leave after she used the divination device with her class of kindergartners.