Teachers 'watched boy, 6, slip on snow then forced him to crawl back to class with a broken leg'

A six-year-old who slipped on snow was forced by teachers to crawl 300 feet back to class with a broken leg and concussion, his parents claim.

Staff at the Skokie, Illinois kindergarten then allegedly failed to call an ambulance, leaving the boy's mother to take him to the hospital.

Rahul Chandani fell on a mound of snow in the playground and smacked his head two years ago, according to a lawsuit filed by his parents.



Youngster: Rahul Chandani, 6, slipped on snow in a school playground, suffering a broken leg and concussion. His teachers did nothing to help, his parents claim

The youngster suffered a fractured tibia and was left with a lump on his head 'the size of a tennis ball', his parents, Pritam and Priya, said.

The suit, filed on Tuesday, adds he had complained of dizziness but the school did not pay him proper medical attention and did not have a wheelchair to take him back to the building.

When she arrived to collect him, Mrs Chandani saw her son crawling and immediately took him to the hospital, she said.

'His teacher told him: "You’re a big boy — I can’t carry you,"' she told the Chicago Sun-Times.

'She told him to walk back, but his leg was broken so he fell again and then had to crawl at least 200-300 feet back to the school building.

'If someone did that to me as an adult, I’d slap them.'



Concern: In a lawsuit, his mother Priya, pictured, said the school did not call an ambulance and made her son crawl across the playground back to class



Protective: The suit, also filed by his father Pritam, pictured, seeks $200,000 in damages. Rahul missed six weeks of school and has had trouble sleeping, it says

The boy missed six weeks of lessons at Devonshire Elementary School, had trouble sleeping and was 'emotionally scarred' by the incident, according to the Sun-Times.

His mother added that the accident happened on an icy patch near some swings – and was uncertain why the teachers had made the children walk across the area.

‘You can’t expect 6-year-olds to be careful in a place like that,’ she said.

The suit, filed in a Cook County circuit court, seeks in excess of $200,000 in damages.



Scene: The suit concerns Devonshire Elementary School in Skokie, Illinois, above

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