Thursday, June 5, 2008

Teacher Duct Tapes Kid To Chair

Oakridge, Oregon (KEZI) - A nine-year-old student in Oregon says his teacher taped him to his chair with duct tape. His mother says she wants an explanation.

"I don't want her teaching anymore."

Becky Faile is upset. She says her nine-year-old son, Austin, told her some disturbing news last Wednesday night. "Right before we put Austin to bed he said 'by the way mom, I was taped to my seat today at school' and I was like what? What happened."

Austin told his mom he wasn't obeying his teacher when she asked him to stay seated, so she used wide duct tape to tie Austin to his chair. "She just walked over with a roll of masking tape and tape me down," Austin says.

Becky says her son sat like that for over an hour.

Austin's parents had him tell the story to the superintendent. "He called us he told us he had talked to her she admitted that she did it," says Don Kordosky. "They escorted her off the grounds on Friday. We placed the teacher on paid administrative leave were doing an investigation and we are going to meet with the teacher on Thursday."

Becky says she's worried the teacher will be back to work soon, and Austin is scared to return. "We tried taking him to class and he just started crying, he was really upset just about being left there at all. We didn't realize how emotional he was about it till we tried leaving him at school, so we brought him home."

Kordosky doesn't want to share many details until after the investigation is complete.

As a mother, Becky says she just want Justice served. "If I personally as a parent did that as a child (protective services)would come take the kid out of my house. If I could lose custody of my kid, if that happened in my house, why should a teacher be allowed to do that to a student? And they're gonna give her 10 days of leave and slap her on the hand?"


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NOW...my thoughts on this.
If parents would discipline their kids and teach them respect, teachers would not have to come up with inventive ways to get kid's attention. If the state and local governments would stop telling parents HOW to discipline their kids, MAYBE more parents would start whipping their kids heinies and the little snots would behave.

We didn't act up in school when I was a kid. Whatever punishment the teacher would have given us would have been play time compared to what my dad would have given us. Back then, we respected our teachers. Parents, stop leaving it to the teachers to punish your kids and teach them to mind. If you don't care to discipline them, don't start crying when someone else DOES.



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