Carlsbad school officials won't say why Ron Laughlin, a first-year fourth-grade teacher at Eddy Elementary School, is no longer teaching, but a parent tells the Carlsbad Current-Argus that Laughlin used physical force in disciplining her child.

"That teacher will not be back," Carlsbad Municipal Schools Superintendent Ron Owen said Wednesday, confirming the teacher's removal from his classroom on Tuesday. "Mr. Laughlin will be on leave for the remainder of the school year."

Susan Shope, the mother of a fourth-grader at Eddy Elementary, told the Current-Argus that she has had issues with Laughlin for several months, but that things came to a head on Monday when the teacher allegedly grabbed her son with both arms, lifted him from his desk and dragged him into the hallway to admonish him for a classroom incident.

It wasn't the first time Laughlin laid hands on her son, Shope told the paper, but this time she went to Principal Sandy Nunley and demanded that something be done, the Current-Argus said.

Owen said no further details could be released about Laughlin because of confidentiality concerns, the paper reported.