Teacher 'put sticky tape over children's mouths'

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A teacher has been suspended following claims that sticky tape was placed over the mouths of children to keep them quiet during a lesson. Parents of children at Danesfield Church of England school in Williton, Somerset, have claimed that the incident happened after youngsters were laughing and joking during a lesson.

They allege that tape was placed over the mouths of children for the duration of the lesson. Children were allegedly told they would be sent out if they removed the tape and if it fell off, it was replaced.

One parent claimed his 10-year-old daughter was upset at the treatment and when she removed the tape at the end of the lesson, it took some skin away and left her bleeding.

Avon and Somerset police said they were aware of the allegations. It is not clear yet if the force will investigate or will leave it to the education authorities.

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/04/teacher-put-sticky-tape-childrens-mouths

[sakabatou]

1. If true, WTF?!

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Isn't that what Michele Rhee admitted to doing?

Bragged about it , in fact ?

Didn't Obama invite her to the WH?


What am I missing?

[jsr]

3. Yep - "The skin is coming off their lips and they're bleeding"

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/looselips/2010/08/16/baltimore-schools-have-really-strong-masking-tape/

Rhee had poor class management skills, she said, recalling that her class "was very well known in the school because you could hear them traveling anywhere because they were so out of control." On one particularly rowdy day, she said she decided to place little pieces of masking tape on their lips for the trip to the school cafeteria for lunch.

"OK kids, we're going to do something special today!" she said she told them.

Rhee said it worked well until they actually arrived at the cafeteria. "I was like, 'OK, take the tape off. I realized I had not told the kids to lick their lips beforehand...The skin is coming off their lips and they're bleeding. Thirty-five kids were crying."

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Well, given her unstinting public praise by such as Pres. Obama and Sec Duncan...

and given the fact that they have held her (Rhee) up as an example of the kind of school reform they wish to see replicated nationally ... and combine those facts with the fact that most reasonable people would think that taping noisy kids' mouths closed to the point where their lips bleed is a BAD (possibly *criminal*) not a GOOD educational practice..... does this not raise questions about whether or not Obama and Duncan ( not to mention a host other inexperienced ed "reform" dilettantes) have even the *slightest* notion of how to manage children...... much less educate them?

Maybe I'm crazy... I taught for 27 years, so that's a possibility... and I'm sure that I'm not as sophisticated and as well-educated ( went to public university, etc.) as the aforementioned Ivy Leaguers, surely 'The 'Best and the Brightest' among us today .... but I really don't think we should make the children *bleed* in school.

Ever.

That would be a non starter.

Something is seriously wrong with this picture. ( And I'm not talking about the above. What's she doing btw.... singing Amazing Grace? And who's that reformer-looking type mother-fellah casting the adoring glance her way?)

[monmouth3]

5. That would be rick scott, gov. of florida..n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Aha. Judging from his beatific expression, he's got visions of school reform $ugar plums...

dancing in his little Republican head.

[monmouth3]

7. As long as they stay in his head, we are safe. He's a true jerk..n/t

[SidDithers]

8. Some teachers shouldn't be allowed anywhere near kids...nt

Sid

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. Nor anywhere near presidents of the United States, for that matter.

That's probably the closest Mr. Obama has ever been to an actual "public school teacher". (I use the phrase loosely in Rhee's case.)

It had to be Rhee.... right?

[SidDithers]

11. Wait. A teacher tapes a kid's mouth closed, in England...

and you make it about Obama?



Sid

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. Slow down.

You implied that someone who would do a thing like that shouldn't be "anywhere near kids." ( Actually you didn't imply it; you stated it verbatim.)

Michele Rhee not only did "a thing like that"... she did EXACTLY that. And *bragged* about it later.

True... she got a promotion out of it... and is no longer 'near kids." (Obamacation in action I guess.)


*I* made it about Obama? *Obama* made it about Obama. He has praised Rhee's pedagogy unstintingly as an example of what Obama believes to be "school reform".

Either you're wrong : "someone like that shouldn't be around kids"; or Obama's wrong: Rhee and her methodology is an example to replicate nationally.

You can't both be right; it's a matter of simple logic.


England is just where the OP took place. I'm, not making what happened in ENGLAND about OBAMA.... I'm making what Rhee did in BALTIMORE about Obama.... and his infamously abysmal judgement re. public education.

[SidDithers]

13. Uh huh...

Sid

[frogmarch]

9. Terrible! Sounds like

punishment from the 50s where I lived in Nebraska. In 7th grade, one of my male teachers (a coach who was also made to teach physiology) punished us for chewing gum in class by making us take off our shoes and walk over to the wall, stand on our tip-toes and stick the wad of gum on the wall, just barely in reach of our nose. We had to stand on tip-toes with our nose on the gum until class was over. It was sometimes painful because he put thumbtacks, points up, under our heels.

[Paulie]

14. They used packing tape on me in preschool

The kind you had to wet the glue first. But I used my tongue to drill around till it was only held on by the top.

It's only been 35+ years... funny how some stuff you remember.