Teacher Punishes 10-Year-Old For Calling Her ‘Ma’am,’ Parents Claim

TARBORO, N.C. (CBS Local) – The parents of a North Carolina boy are demanding answers after they say their child was punished for addressing his teacher as “ma’am.”
Teretha Wilson told local reporters that she knew something was wrong when her son, Tamarion, got off the school bus on Aug. 21. “I asked him what happened,” Wilson said, via WTOL. “He said he got in trouble for saying ‘yes, ma’am.'”
The 10-year-old then showed his pare