Sue the school? Or the teacher?

Asked in Danville, VA - 6 months

My 14 year old son was struck by his Spanish teacher on Tuesday. He had been looking up something for her on the internet when multiple students were talking, he did tell the students to "shut up." Apparently this teacher thought he had spoken those words to her and she in turn hit him twice on his arms, and once in the chest. My child already sees a pediatric cardiologist for chest problems. She also called him "stupid" and "dumb" during the course of this incident, amongst other things that I probably should not mention here. My kid didn't tell us what had happened, but rather another several concerned parents of students in his class had been informed by their child of the incident and called the principal., who called us. She asked how we wanted this handled, and of course the teacher