Providence substitute teacher loses classroom assignments after he's slow in reporting apparent BB gun

PROVIDENCE -- A substitute teacher at Esek Hopkins Middle School saw a student with what looked like a BB gun, but didn’t report it until the next day, school officials said.

The substitute teacher is now no longer working for the schools in Providence.

Interim Providence schools superintendent Frances Gallo “took immediate action and the substitute was removed from all school assignments,” spokeswoman Emily Martineau said in an email. “After a thorough search no weapon was found.”

The substitute teacher saw a student with what appeared to be a BB gun on Oct. 16. He did not report it until the next day.

Teachers should immediately report these sorts of incidents, Martineau said.

The substitute teacher was not criminally charged.