2 St. Landry Parish teachers arrested for bullying students

Two teachers at Washington Elementary have been arrested for bullying students.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said the mother of an 11-year-old student filed a complaint with the sheriff’s juvenile section on Feb. 24 stating the child was bullied by Ann Shelvin, 44, of the 500 block of Brignac, Opelousas.
The mother also directed the report to the St. Landry Parish School Board.
Shelvin is charged with two counts of encouraging or contributing to the delinquency and one count of malfeasance in office and two counts of intimidation and interference in the schools.
On April 5, the mother returned to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office to file charges on Shelvin because the bulling continued, Guidroz stated in a news release. 
During the investigation it was revealed that Ann Shelvin intimidated and interfered in the operation of a public school with three of her other students by threatening to fail them if they would not fight with one of their classmates, Guidroz stated. Shelvin also reportedly told the bullied juvenile to “Go and Kill Yourself,” Guidroz stated.
Guidroz stated, Detectives interviewed a student that was involved in the bulling of the 11-year-old juvenile and admitted that she was forced by Shelvin to start an altercation with her classmate that resulted in several students being sent to the principal’s office. The student admitted she was told if she would not fight with the 11-year-old, that Shelvin would refuse to help her with her class work just like she refuses to help the 11-year-old, he stated.  The student stated that she was scared that she would be treated like the 11-year-old and would fail the seventh grade, he stated.
Guidroz continued:
On April 24, the mother of the student involved in the bullying told detectives that the incident had been going on since October of last year with her daughter being threatened by Shelvin to fight another student or Shelvin was going to fail her.  The mother stated that Shelvin was escorted off the school grounds and Tracy Gallow then took over the class.  Gallow then started pulling, pushing and yelling at her daughter because she reported to the principal that her teacher Ann Shelvin was making her and two of her other friends fight the 11-year-old because Shelvin did not like her or her mother.
“Detectives observed the school video footage and witnessed Tracy Gallow on two occasions pushing the juvenile student on the school bleachers stopping her from exiting the gym. During the interview, Tracy Gallow admitted to pushing the juvenile on the bleachers because she felt she was too upset to go start her testing,” he stated.
Gallow, of the 200 block of Crimson, Opelousas, is charged with one count of malfeasance in office, one count of simple battery and one count of intimidation and interference in school operation.
Shelvin’s bail was $2,000 and Gallow’s was $2,500.