A 14-year-old student was in a building known as the pottery shack at the Montessori School of Raleigh’s middle school campus. Also in the room was Nick Smith, a beloved and gregarious math teacher who students nicknamed “Senior.”
“He was very friendly,” the former student testified Thursday. “A little too friendly.”
Early in the 2015-16 school year, the then middle school student noticed that Smith would touch her often. Smith would brush against her arm, leg, or shoulder in passing, while checking her work and in other situations. But after Christmas it got worse, with his hands moving to her butt and her breasts.
