A Knox County elementary school music teacher is accused of slapping a student. School officials say Suzanne Shinn from Karns Elementary was put on paid administrative leave April 18 pending an investigation that also involves the Department of Children’s Services. School officials reported allegations of Shinn slapping a student in the back and the face, and striking the student with the cord of a recorder instrument after pulling it from around the student’s neck with a breakaway cord. Shinn is on leave pending the outcome of the investigation.