Jury selection is scheduled to begin this afternoon in federal court in the civil trial of a former Cupertino Union School District teacher accused of physically abusing a special-education student.
Craig and Ann Gaydos allege that over a period of months in 2001 and 2002, teacher Karen Miller caused physical and emotional injury to their daughter Paige. Paige has Asperger's syndrome, a neurological disorder similar to autism, and was in Miller's special-education classroom at Eisenhower Elementary in Santa Clara.
The alleged abuses range from smearing a burrito in Paige's face and hair, to pushing her on the floor and sitting on her.
