I'm in a schools district that is so desperate for teachers that they will let someone without a degree teach if they promise that they will persue one.
Yeah, I don’t think a teaching degree is really the mark of competence they’re selling it as. What has been the trend in student scores and performance over the last 40 years again?
They may as well be television presenters. A teaching degree doesn't indicate a mastery let alone comprehension of the material, just a baseline ability to to present it.
The school district lays out the curriculum and gives them teacher edition books with scripts to follow and solution guides. They've set it up to where with a degree in 'teaching' one can present material provided on any subject to a classroom full of kids and call it teaching.
"Trust the science" means nothing more than trust the script the teacher, news anchor, politician, influencer read to you. Because that's all a product of the modern educational system will ever know of "science."
I went back to get certified in Special Ed after working years in retail and IT and was amazed at how stupid my classmates were. Something really went wrong from 1982 to 2016.
Had to review another classmate's teaching video and was blown away by her inability to pronounce a single place name during a Geography lesson she recorded for class.
I'm in a schools district that is so desperate for teachers that they will let someone without a degree teach if they promise that they will persue one.
I got this heart surgery coming up. He is pursuing medical school, so everything should be fine.
Yes. I'm a developer and for ten years I actually worked for one of the non-profits that facilitates these "Teach Abroad" programs. They send Americans to other countries to teach, and import immigrants to teach here. They also did study abroad programs, work & travel. Shit like that.
They're tightly affiliated with the State Department, and came about in the post war era by a group of globalists. Supposedly for "cultural exchange". Leftist politicians were there all the time. I met Chuck Schumer there, Angus King, and although I didn't meet this one, Maxine Waters was there once too. They'd also bring in leftist authors. It was surreal but I received an important education in how these people actually operate.
It was BY FAR the most left wing company I ever worked for. When Trump won in 2016 the CEO sent an email out saying, "We're going to get through these dark and frightening times together". And then he hired a company to bring in a dozen or so puppies for "puppy therapy" that people were encouraged to do. This was the day after the 2016 election. People were sitting at their desks bawling like infants. Like actually blubbering. I walked around with a shit eating grin on my face all day.
I don't know if this teacher was one that they brought in or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
That tape is specifically designed to not be sticky. I find it no more injurious than a dunce cap. The mother even admitted the kid runs his mouth all the time.
A White kid had his mouth taped shut by a black teacher. Imagine if the tables were turned, a black kid had their mouth taped shut by a White teacher. That teacher wouldn’t have been allowed to quietly resign. They would have been fired, their names would be pasted all over the national news, they’d never be able to find work again.
What you are describing is absolutely true, I recognize that as a problem. I think it’s unfortunate that we have to look at things from the racial perspective and not realize that what the teacher did wasn’t really a big deal, and may have actually been an effective punishment.
Effective punishment? That scrawny bitch would've had several limbs broken where I went to school. I can appreciate a teacher's frustration, but this situation screams "ineffective teacher." Something better than that should have been done.
Really sad that we have to look at skin color, but it do be like that. Also, NC public education is notoriously horrible; could be this really is the best they can get.
There's no fucking way you are a parent or a teacher to think that isn't a big deal. What she did was way out of line. Write the kid up, contact the parent, remove to another class. The tape is a form of humiliation and out of bounds for a teacher.
If any of my kids get ahold of a roll of painters tape, masking tape, duct tape, scotch tape, packing tape, etc, their face looks like the boy in the picture.
They do it to themselves (and each other) and think it’s hilarious. They love wasting tape. The more expensive the tape, the better.
This seems overblown. I remember when that teacher taped a mask on a two year olds face - that was outrageous and warranted firing/punishment.
This just seems silly. Yes, I know that there would be entire cities burning down mostly peacefully had a white teacher done the same thing to a black kid, but that doesn’t make this particular incident worse than it is.
I guess if she violently restrained him and taped his mouth shut against his will, that would be a different context; but just putting tape on his mouth seems silly to me.
"Dunce hat" is the prime example of destructive teaching.
The teacher bullied the kid. There is no need to do this. Socially humiliating students is not ok. It is fear based leadership.
It also doesnt work, because when you attempt to "take down" a kid who is "too big for his own breeches" by demeaning him, you are only causing more contempt.
Fear is a great motivator. Back in the 60's we would of been asked to stand, quietly with our nose in the corner of the room. If that didn't work then a good paddeling in the hallway has a way of straightening your thoughts out.
I’m a therapist and those people who had their “thoughts straightened out” with fear, humiliation, and violence were traumatized for life. I hope to God you don’t treat your children like that or they will be paying some therapist a lot of money in a few decades to undo the constant anger/fear/anxiety their young brain was trained into by their abusive father to make them easier to control.
Edit: looks like I triggered some old fudds whose kids don’t talk to them anymore lol
who had their “thoughts straightened out” with fear, humiliation, and violence were traumatized for life.
Complete BS. Speaking as one of those who had their "thoughts straightened out" MANY times over my school career, I have no trauma attached to that nor do I have any "life" problems because of it.
Sometimes bratty kids need to get their butt whooped.
Bullshit. You have a bias based on your patients. How many people have gone through much worse than your patients and don’t need to see a therapist? You see the worst case scenarios but how many of the best cases do you see? One of our biggest problems is too many people that have never had to overcome adversity. Mental toughness is something that needs to be encouraged and from what I’ve seen, rarely comes out of seeing a therapist. Usually it revolves around helping you being ok with being a pussy.
You have clearly never met a based MAGA therapist. There are not many of us. If you go see a woke pussy for therapy they will encourage you to be a woke pussy. I work with men who are getting their lives together and building shit.
men who are getting their lives together and building shit [after suffering lifelong trauma from being forced to wear a dunce hat in school for acting like a dunce]
I’d take “lifelong trauma” over the alternative of growing up to be a poofter
Rusty, try to wash your pussy more than once a week.
There is absolutely NOTHING about discipline that is "lifelong trauma," that's Marxist Professor bs designed to destroy the Nation. Which is working, btw.
This in no way suggests that corporal punishment is always appropriate, but school discipline problems are directly traceable to when this Dr Spock bs came in vogue via academia faggotry.
A "chatterbox" probably doesn't need any form of corporal punishment, tape, dunce cap, or humiliation beyond verbal correction. What do you suggest would work for such a simple situation? (Assuming this case wasn't more complex, which of course we don't know)
Haha Therapist. Who's more fucked up than therapists. I've never been to a therapist but i've met some. I turned out fine. My kids and grandkids are some of the most kind and wonderful folks. You can discipline children and not cross a line. They might actually appreciate the care you give them. I did. I knew when I was being bad and I knew I deserved the punishment. I've never have been angry at my Mom, Grandparents, teachers for "showing me de way"! Have a great weekend.
I disagree and agree with you. The failure of modern teaching is the removal of authoritarian leadership in the classroom. if you read people like Max von Manen you will see what I am talking about. his work on phenomenical(I think that is how you spell it in English) pedagogy is one of the cornerstonesnof modern education. It is very good, however he completely fumbles with his disregard of authority. You should correct kids properly.
I am an engineer and a teacher who is very good at dealing with kids like this. I would take the kid outside, find out why he does as he does. Explain to him why i want him to be silent. Allow him settings where he can be vocal and then i will explain what i will do if he continues to be excessively vocal in class. I would call and have a continuous dialogue with his parents(the most important factor for a Kid. Parents>teacher) and then work hard for three months. If there are no big underlyinh issues that will usually work.
If I humiliated the kid infront of the class and his friends I will only weaken him and engage in a destructive powerstruggle which I probably will loose. This is what the teacher did. She is probably a weak teacher with poor leadership abilities.
Honesty, integrity, humility works, not superfluous fake compassion.
preserve respect for authority by one on one discussion, in private. (This requires resources this teacher may not have had, and NC schools aren't alone in sucking)
parental involvement
start 'em young! This is incredibly easier at 8-11 than 15-18.
When I went to school an experiment was done when we first moved from different classrooms throughout the day. The group stayed intact, and these groups were divided by ability. The two with the highest ability were taught differently; mine gave leeway to chatterboxes with the teacher trying to guide discussion productively. The other was stricter. Personally, I would not have done well in that group. Their group as a whole did worse; the experiment was conclusive.
authoritarian leadership's effectiveness scales with lower cognitive ability and higher agreeableness.
It is ruinous to implement on, 2+ standard deviation, of the high end spectrum. The teacher cannot grasp how smart the kids is, let alone educate.
Societies are changed by those 2+ std from the norm, it matter little what the rest of the population do, for example with the covid-19 vaccines.
They tried everything in the educational handbook on how to get the 'right' behaviors.
But why did so many doctors and 'experts' go along? because the government took the role of the authoritarian leadership they are used to when they were little. The "If it ain't broke don't fix it formula", of 'don't rock the boat".
So hard disagree, education past reading comprehension is mostly useless with the internet. If we tested doctors on abilities instead of 'certification', many people would have been saved.
Certification these days is the ability to remember and mimic what was shown, not make deviations with the tools given.
It's how engineering fell from grace, medicine didn't learn that sad lesson from watching.
Simplified version: Stupid teachers trying to teach smart children will always result in failure.
The US school system is geared towards programming sub-100 IQ future serfs with the required narrative of the day. Dept. of Edu. is nothing more than a drone programming service.
"Oversimplification if a sign of low IQ". And then you proceed to do exactly that.
Anyone with an advanced education knows being able to simplify is a sign of knowing a subject extremely well.
A smart child can learn simple tasks from simple people. A smart child can also learn complex tasks from intelligent people. The inverse is patently impossible. It's like trying to teach a cat to play a violin. How is this not exactly what the DoE is doing with diversity hiring/lowered standards while claiming "we don't understand why kids aren't learning, must need more money."
In the current system most parents (single mothers) would attack you for attempting to control little Jaedon's self expression and you would be out of a job.
Steam, curiosity, self sufficiency, making friends, learning social skills -- the list is long.
I don't know anyone in my generation (and every one that came before) that doesn't have story of a neighborhood kid that went too far and paid the price. We learned our limits and our skills. Now we have adults in their late 30's thinking "do over's" are possible because they equate real life with a video game.
100% true. It's mind boggling that so often the same people insisting they support conservative social mores and their application are spineless snowflakes when action is needed to control feral behavior.
It's not destructive to teach children that there are real physical and dangerous risks to socially unacceptable behavior. A little childhood humiliation in a safe setting can prevent a ruined future adult.
Lots of room for productive discussion here. Hopefully everyone can agree that everything in the OP article is wrong. (Kid, teacher, hiring foreign teacher, NC schools, single Mother)
Him asking Mom what he's supposed to do may be the most non-spoiled brat thing he's ever done in his life!
Certainly painter's tape doesn't cause any damage.
Causing embarrassment and shame is ... less than ideal.
Part of the problem is hiring visa workers to teach our kids in the first place. That she didn't know what else to do isn't that horrible - maybe. That the administration didn't teach her better is perhaps as bad as the parent's failing here. Everything about this is wrong, but shouldn't be a federal case.
We don't have enough info to decide if the teacher should be fired, deported, etc. Or exactly who should have made sure she had better skills for such a highly foreseeable situation. Or what the teacher had already tried, or what kind of help she got from who. (Or how everybody else may have abandoned her)
LOTS of other options! Why is taping his mouth shut the best one?
Dude took a pity selfie asking “what do I do? :(“ and sent it to his mom. A good mom would be like “stop talking in class” and apologize to the teacher for not teaching him better manners in the first place. This is a classic spoiled brat move. Act like a dickhead, get reprimanded, whine to mommy.
The fact that whining after receiving the most mild punishment possible WORKED is going to train this little shithead to continue being awful.
I like the tape move. Administrators would’ve had her do -nothing- most likely. And the spoiled brat would’ve continued disrupting the class. Which is the problem.
Administrators and the No-balls approach to education is part and parcel of the progressive culture failure that should be remedied.
I agree. This is in my opinion not a good solution based on the little information i have. I have however "fixed" a lot of kids like this. Integrity, humility, honesty. Treat kids respectfully and create clear concise rules fra rnwhat is acceptable with clear and concise sanctions.
Humiliating a Kid in front of his friends is just a loosing move by a weak teacher. Probably. We dont know everything
I was working with a class two years ago with six "social challenges" in it about two-three years ago.
One of the issues we were dealing with was a Kid with divorced parents, father was an abusive Turk who left to go back to Turkey. That Kid had a typical leftist woman as mother and was constantly talking in class.
I spent time talking to the kid, created rapport and trust. He was small, not good in sports and picked on by other classmates. His only way of getting respect was to "attack the teacher verbally" in class. It was a self defense mechanism. I took him out of class, explained what I wanted to see, explained what would happen if he continued to verbally challenge me. There is more to it, but that is basicly it. Ten thousand small things.
One of the differences between me and their normal teacher is that the kids respected me. I could then use that social position and leadership to enact change in the group dynamic. Kids want desperately a good leader.
That's actually hilarious. The kid you described has no more trauma than the basic bumps encountered by a majority of kids. Of course talking worked.
Try your methods with a 160 IQ schizo-effective ADHD kid that survived attempted parental murder attempts, or a 75 IQ kid exposed to cocaine and ignored by his mother to the point that he'll never learn how to speak properly, let alone learn self control.
Yes. Offcourse it worked. I would not do the same thing with a "160 IQ schizo-effective ADHD kid that survived attempted parental murder attempts".
I showed that example because it is similar to the kid we are talking about. It was a dude who was disorderly in class. I dont get your point. The entire point is that this is easy things to "fix". Child soldiers from Africa who are refugees without parents and addicted to methamphetamine is another type of kids who is also difficult to "fix".
Teachers cant "fix" anything deep, only provide leadership and guidance in a classroom.
Yeah, it probably got lost in the weeds here, but I agreed that the teacher was out of line.
My point is the majority of US kids are dealing with problems closer to "refugees without parents" rather than "broken home". We're way beyond any simple fix for our education system. A teacher that places painter's tape on an unruly child needs more training, but a school system that never disciplines anti-social behavior is in ruins.
agreed. Get normal people into the schools. So many great people who can do tremendous amount of great work. More parents, unclear, aunts, grandparents less neoliberal activist grooming pedophiles
agreed. Get normal people into the schools. So many great people who can do tremendous amount of great work. More parents, unclear, aunts, grandparents less neoliberal activist grooming pedophiles
In my experience with people that claim they can fix all children with rational talk, the children they deal with are not on the left of the bell curve, or they've never encountered one with severe physical hyperactivity.
No. Im not what you think I am. I work with the worst of the worst of kids everyday. I am an engineer working as a teacher without the education as a teacher. I gonfrom school to school fixing "gangsterkids". You do not need to humiliate kids to get them to do what you want.
You are however wrong that humiliation and punishment is necessary to create respect in a group. Personally I try to follow my own core tenets. Integrity and honesty is probably enough in most cases as long as there are no underlying issues like rape or whatever.
She is a weak teacher who failed to lead her class. She is probably a lot of what you say, but I am not.
I'd be pissed off if my son's teacher did this. Not because it harmed him, but because it's ineffective and not her place. Send him to the office. Hell, spank the kid! I'm in favor of corporal punishment. But this is dangerous. My son can barely breath through his nose half the time, and this could cause asphyxiation..
If your kid had this happen to him then he needs a better father to parent him.
This doesn't happen because he was just a little annoying once. No. This is that faggot who WONT SHUT THE FUCK UP and runs his mouth constantly. Disrespect everyone around him and doesn't give a fuck about anything other than himself.
His own mom said essentially he's a shit. Probably no father.
If this happened to your child, then your child fucking deserved it and you need to go look in a mirror and ask why you're such a failure at raising a human. CPS would do a better job.
I disagree, but not completly. Some kids have good structure at home but just don't stop talking. Generally they're just talking though, not being intentionally disrespectful or argumentative.
Based on the other behavior described you're probably right about his home life, but that doesn't give the teacher the right to tape his mouth shut.
Some kids are highly intelligent and have low impulsecontrol. It is not a bad thing to talk a lot. BUT this Kid needs to learn discipline. When to talk is important.
Not only is taping his mouth shut not a right, it's worse than ineffective. It's almost certainly counter productive, destroying any respect for authority that might have been there, and creating contempt; likely in extreme amounts.
This teacher was hired from a different culture and not taught jack shit, blame that on administration!
This is that faggot who WONT SHUT THE FUCK UP and runs his mouth constantly. Disrespect everyone around him and doesn't give a fuck about anything other than himself.
It’s effective and it’s her place to do it. If your shithead kid is disrupting class I want him shut up so my kids can learn. This was a super nonviolent way to do it.
There’s no chance your kid would die of asphyxiation from painter’s tape on his mouth. If you’re that scared of the basic environment, don’t send your kid to school and teach him yourself.
Kick the kid out of the fucking class. Send him to the principals office. You don't get to put your hands on a fucking kid and tape their mouth shut. I bet you wouldn't try that shit to someone else kid, or you would only be doing that shit once. What kind of retard tries to justify this when there are plenty of options to deal with a talking child?
I almost agree with you. I think corporal punishment needs to be allowed and removing it was an obvious mistake, but tape like this helps nothing. And parental involvement needs to be a big part of the picture before any corporal punishment is likely to be a good idea; every kid learns differently and the parents should know best.
A parent teacher conference where they agree on terms and then invite the kid in to have Dad explain that this teacher absolutely can and will spank them just like at home if needed could work wonders, if done right. And by "work wonders" I mean the teacher doesn't need to resort to corporal punishment at all, and the kid respects everyone involved and actually learns.
When I was in school, you'd need to bring a permission slip in that basically said "I give the school and it's staff to authorization to beat my child's ass, should he act in an antisocial manner."
My parents had much the same attitude as you, but they gleefully signed that paper and then all was good. I think they didn't mind people beating me, so long as they asked first.
Can confirm. My stepdad gleefully told me that he gave the school permission to beat my ass, and indeed they did. I had a couple of teachers who would beat your ass if you didn't complete your homework assignment. When the time came to turn in the assignment, anyone who didn't was told to stand up and the teacher would walk by with his wooden paddle and we'd each get a "swat". It was a daily occurrence. If you really fucked up, you would be sent to the principal's office for your swats, and he had a much larger paddle. I had that happen a couple of times for ditching school and having too many absences.
How come these articles never give the important information, like what was the little shit doing exactly? That should be paragraphs 2 and 3 of a story like this.
Yep if he doesn't learn quick someone's going put a fist to that mouth. He sounds like one of those faggots that interrupt and distract in class for attention, not realizing the attention is because he is a huge faggot.
The "stripped of her visa" comment is interesting. They put it in quotes, so she wasn't actually stripped of her visa? Also, wouldn't such an action involve the state department? Maybe the school was sponsoring her visa? This just raises many more questions.
I’m kinda taking the teacher’s side here. This chick gets the hammer dropped on her, but dozens of purple-haired psychos openly brag about corrupting young children towards self-harm and suicide, encouraging them to conceal what they’re doing from their parents, and expose them to sexual predators, yet nothing happens to them.
I don't want to defend this teacher but blue painters tape is not fucking heavy duty tape, and the kid says "I don't know what to do" have you tried not talking so much during class?? No, apparently not.
Not that I support taping kids mouth shut but it's less damaging to their mental health than loading them up with Ritalin and SSRIs because they have the audacity to act like children in class.
The problem is nobody learns anything good like this and it doesn't necessarily mean a shit teacher, the school administration did absolutely nothing to train someone from a different culture.
The only thing I'm taking from this story is - at least there was an equal application of administrative justice in this situation regarding the racial component.
We all know that if the races of the parties involved were reversed, the teacher in question would have absolutely lost their job.
It's actually surprising to see that happen in this case, given the absolute lack of common sense and fairness that runs rampant these days...
Ain't gonna lie, I'm seeing nothing intrinsically wrong with taping a boys mouth shut. But maybe I'm biased being the class clown in a Catholic school growing up. We got paddled too, terrifying experience but it worked and we deserved it. I was tied to my seat with an extension cord once to stop me from getting up. I had my entire head sans nose and eyes wrapped in packing tape in an effort to humiliate and shut me up but it turns out saliva gets thru the adhesive. Got whooped for that one, and removing the tape involved a priest holding one end of the tape and me spinning around to unwrap it, pulled a decent amount of hairs with it. My mom thought that one was a bit much.
Story from Catholic school: they had a rivalry with us and got out before we did. They built a snow fort, and armed it with ice balls with rocks inside. These Catholic assholes were also all bigger and older than us by several years and had us outnumbered.
They never made that mistake again. They never dared show their face around us again.
No Nun or Priest ever administered that much ahem "learning," I'll guaranfuckingtee you.
Moral of the story is good teachers are important, and their teachers sucked. Some of the methods you described might not be the best in all cases.
Funny, we experienced the inverse from time to time. Discipline is a touchy subject but it is necessary and should be measured. Looking back on my particular whoopins they were all merited, I just chose to continue being a jerk. Others learned more quickly. I eventually was told to not come back which led to getting shipped off to a boarding school in Ireland and that squared me away. Turned out I was just smarter than the grade standard and got bored easily.
Kek! In 2nd grade, at a Catholic school. I saw Sister Eleanor take a roll of masking tape and strap down a kid to his chair, because he kept fidgeting. Good times back then, they actually paddled kids too. I got it once in 4th grade because I shot out all the classroom lights with desk cleaner.
We used to eat lunch in the classroom and kids rotated the desk cleaning task while everyone went out for recess. The classroom lights looked kind of like Saturn, a big globe bulb with like 3 diffuser rings around it. Star Wars just came out and I adjusted the sprayer bottle to stream. I squirted a bulb and it exploded like the Death Star. It was so cool, I shot the other 5 bulbs out.
I'm sorry but "heavy duty" and "painters tape" in the same article makes me roll my eyes at the whole article. No need to embellish something like this.
Why are immigrant visa's being hired as teachers? Has this always been a thing?
I'm in a schools district that is so desperate for teachers that they will let someone without a degree teach if they promise that they will persue one.
I feel like I could do a better job teaching biology and anatomy and health without a teaching degree. I have a nursing degree.
Yeah, I don’t think a teaching degree is really the mark of competence they’re selling it as. What has been the trend in student scores and performance over the last 40 years again?
It's been dropping ever since the creation of the The United States Department of Education.
School integration was also a factor
And that idea was SO GOOD that it had to be enforced by soldiers at gunpoint.
That’s how badly people wanted it.
I'm a bartender with no formal education and some of the most stupid and worst behaved customers I have are teachers.
They may as well be television presenters. A teaching degree doesn't indicate a mastery let alone comprehension of the material, just a baseline ability to to present it.
The school district lays out the curriculum and gives them teacher edition books with scripts to follow and solution guides. They've set it up to where with a degree in 'teaching' one can present material provided on any subject to a classroom full of kids and call it teaching.
"Trust the science" means nothing more than trust the script the teacher, news anchor, politician, influencer read to you. Because that's all a product of the modern educational system will ever know of "science."
No degree is ever a mark of competence.. rather it is a mark of being able to regurgitate learned material well enough to pass a test.
I went back to get certified in Special Ed after working years in retail and IT and was amazed at how stupid my classmates were. Something really went wrong from 1982 to 2016.
Had to review another classmate's teaching video and was blown away by her inability to pronounce a single place name during a Geography lesson she recorded for class.
No wonder the kids are weak retarded and confused these days!
I got this heart surgery coming up. He is pursuing medical school, so everything should be fine.
Exactly!
Not just a teacher, but an English teacher. At best, she'll have a different version of English, more likely it's not her native tongue.
There are plenty of black countries that speak fluent English. The problem is understanding it.
Yes. I'm a developer and for ten years I actually worked for one of the non-profits that facilitates these "Teach Abroad" programs. They send Americans to other countries to teach, and import immigrants to teach here. They also did study abroad programs, work & travel. Shit like that.
They're tightly affiliated with the State Department, and came about in the post war era by a group of globalists. Supposedly for "cultural exchange". Leftist politicians were there all the time. I met Chuck Schumer there, Angus King, and although I didn't meet this one, Maxine Waters was there once too. They'd also bring in leftist authors. It was surreal but I received an important education in how these people actually operate.
It was BY FAR the most left wing company I ever worked for. When Trump won in 2016 the CEO sent an email out saying, "We're going to get through these dark and frightening times together". And then he hired a company to bring in a dozen or so puppies for "puppy therapy" that people were encouraged to do. This was the day after the 2016 election. People were sitting at their desks bawling like infants. Like actually blubbering. I walked around with a shit eating grin on my face all day.
I don't know if this teacher was one that they brought in or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
https://j1visa.state.gov/programs/teacher - apparently they do... smh... no wonder why the kids aren't alright.
THIS! What the fuck!?
That tape is specifically designed to not be sticky. I find it no more injurious than a dunce cap. The mother even admitted the kid runs his mouth all the time.
I think you’re missing what the real problem is.
A White kid had his mouth taped shut by a black teacher. Imagine if the tables were turned, a black kid had their mouth taped shut by a White teacher. That teacher wouldn’t have been allowed to quietly resign. They would have been fired, their names would be pasted all over the national news, they’d never be able to find work again.
At least this bitch was stripped of her visa.
What you are describing is absolutely true, I recognize that as a problem. I think it’s unfortunate that we have to look at things from the racial perspective and not realize that what the teacher did wasn’t really a big deal, and may have actually been an effective punishment.
I agree.
I guess we shouldn’t lower ourselves to that standard of criticism or we’ll find ourselves living in that standard sooner than later
Effective punishment? That scrawny bitch would've had several limbs broken where I went to school. I can appreciate a teacher's frustration, but this situation screams "ineffective teacher." Something better than that should have been done.
Really sad that we have to look at skin color, but it do be like that. Also, NC public education is notoriously horrible; could be this really is the best they can get.
We didn’t want to look at things from a racial perspective, they did- but only sometimes when it suits their narratives.
There's no fucking way you are a parent or a teacher to think that isn't a big deal. What she did was way out of line. Write the kid up, contact the parent, remove to another class. The tape is a form of humiliation and out of bounds for a teacher.
The lack of humiliation of shame is exactly why society is in the sewer. But I agree it shouldn't have been the teacher applying punishment.
I bet there is no father in the household and she's a strong woman.
I'm still trying to figure out why the pic in the middle is there.
Should have brought back the paddle.
The "board of education."
He probably needs magnesium and b vitamins. Mom probably feeds him pop tarts and waffles and wonders why he can't chill out.
Lol it says “heavy duty tape” it’s fucking painters tape. Scotch tape is heavier duty than that shit
If any of my kids get ahold of a roll of painters tape, masking tape, duct tape, scotch tape, packing tape, etc, their face looks like the boy in the picture.
They do it to themselves (and each other) and think it’s hilarious. They love wasting tape. The more expensive the tape, the better.
This seems overblown. I remember when that teacher taped a mask on a two year olds face - that was outrageous and warranted firing/punishment.
This just seems silly. Yes, I know that there would be entire cities burning down mostly peacefully had a white teacher done the same thing to a black kid, but that doesn’t make this particular incident worse than it is.
I guess if she violently restrained him and taped his mouth shut against his will, that would be a different context; but just putting tape on his mouth seems silly to me.
While painters tape isn't very sticky, is it okay for a public school teacher to humiliate and reprimand a child like that?
I hope this mother decided to homeschool after seeing what the government education does to children.
Painter's tape is not heavy duty.
A fellow autist, welcome.
That's partially true.
"Dunce hat" is the prime example of destructive teaching.
The teacher bullied the kid. There is no need to do this. Socially humiliating students is not ok. It is fear based leadership.
It also doesnt work, because when you attempt to "take down" a kid who is "too big for his own breeches" by demeaning him, you are only causing more contempt.
Based Norwegian guy gets it.
Fear is a great motivator. Back in the 60's we would of been asked to stand, quietly with our nose in the corner of the room. If that didn't work then a good paddeling in the hallway has a way of straightening your thoughts out.
Our institutions were deliberately infiltrated with commies with the creation of the CFR in 1921. Your horseshit ignorance helps nothing.
Further, corporal punishment is a separate matter entirely, conflating them is pure retardation. You can do better than this ...
I’m a therapist and those people who had their “thoughts straightened out” with fear, humiliation, and violence were traumatized for life. I hope to God you don’t treat your children like that or they will be paying some therapist a lot of money in a few decades to undo the constant anger/fear/anxiety their young brain was trained into by their abusive father to make them easier to control.
Edit: looks like I triggered some old fudds whose kids don’t talk to them anymore lol
You lost me after the third word.
I’ll take “the rapists” for $500, Alex
I believe you.
Complete BS. Speaking as one of those who had their "thoughts straightened out" MANY times over my school career, I have no trauma attached to that nor do I have any "life" problems because of it.
Sometimes bratty kids need to get their butt whooped.
Bullshit. You have a bias based on your patients. How many people have gone through much worse than your patients and don’t need to see a therapist? You see the worst case scenarios but how many of the best cases do you see? One of our biggest problems is too many people that have never had to overcome adversity. Mental toughness is something that needs to be encouraged and from what I’ve seen, rarely comes out of seeing a therapist. Usually it revolves around helping you being ok with being a pussy.
You have clearly never met a based MAGA therapist. There are not many of us. If you go see a woke pussy for therapy they will encourage you to be a woke pussy. I work with men who are getting their lives together and building shit.
I’d take “lifelong trauma” over the alternative of growing up to be a poofter
Every human is different.
Bias is based at least as much on Marxist Professors! Valid points.
Rusty, try to wash your pussy more than once a week.
There is absolutely NOTHING about discipline that is "lifelong trauma," that's Marxist Professor bs designed to destroy the Nation. Which is working, btw.
This in no way suggests that corporal punishment is always appropriate, but school discipline problems are directly traceable to when this Dr Spock bs came in vogue via academia faggotry.
A "chatterbox" probably doesn't need any form of corporal punishment, tape, dunce cap, or humiliation beyond verbal correction. What do you suggest would work for such a simple situation? (Assuming this case wasn't more complex, which of course we don't know)
Haha Therapist. Who's more fucked up than therapists. I've never been to a therapist but i've met some. I turned out fine. My kids and grandkids are some of the most kind and wonderful folks. You can discipline children and not cross a line. They might actually appreciate the care you give them. I did. I knew when I was being bad and I knew I deserved the punishment. I've never have been angry at my Mom, Grandparents, teachers for "showing me de way"! Have a great weekend.
Yes, this is the result of weak leadership in the classroom.
I would bet she iniated a powerstruggle which she then lost.
Simp Norwegian*
Fucking Europeans and their pussy faggot ass ideals.
Weak men use excessive force because they cant achieve without it.
Found the child abuser.
So-called ‘destructive’ teaching using social humiliation and sometimes physical punishment resulted in far better academic outcomes and civil adults.
So-called modern ‘teaching’ has poorly educated adult-children rioting over things they barely understand.
The people pretending the old ways didn’t work are retarded. This new age stuff is bullshit.
I disagree and agree with you. The failure of modern teaching is the removal of authoritarian leadership in the classroom. if you read people like Max von Manen you will see what I am talking about. his work on phenomenical(I think that is how you spell it in English) pedagogy is one of the cornerstonesnof modern education. It is very good, however he completely fumbles with his disregard of authority. You should correct kids properly.
I am an engineer and a teacher who is very good at dealing with kids like this. I would take the kid outside, find out why he does as he does. Explain to him why i want him to be silent. Allow him settings where he can be vocal and then i will explain what i will do if he continues to be excessively vocal in class. I would call and have a continuous dialogue with his parents(the most important factor for a Kid. Parents>teacher) and then work hard for three months. If there are no big underlyinh issues that will usually work.
If I humiliated the kid infront of the class and his friends I will only weaken him and engage in a destructive powerstruggle which I probably will loose. This is what the teacher did. She is probably a weak teacher with poor leadership abilities.
Honesty, integrity, humility works, not superfluous fake compassion.
What a great comment!
My summary:
nothing works if authority is disrespected
preserve respect for authority by one on one discussion, in private. (This requires resources this teacher may not have had, and NC schools aren't alone in sucking)
parental involvement
start 'em young! This is incredibly easier at 8-11 than 15-18.
When I went to school an experiment was done when we first moved from different classrooms throughout the day. The group stayed intact, and these groups were divided by ability. The two with the highest ability were taught differently; mine gave leeway to chatterboxes with the teacher trying to guide discussion productively. The other was stricter. Personally, I would not have done well in that group. Their group as a whole did worse; the experiment was conclusive.
Thank you. I agree.
authoritarian leadership's effectiveness scales with lower cognitive ability and higher agreeableness.
It is ruinous to implement on, 2+ standard deviation, of the high end spectrum. The teacher cannot grasp how smart the kids is, let alone educate.
Societies are changed by those 2+ std from the norm, it matter little what the rest of the population do, for example with the covid-19 vaccines.
They tried everything in the educational handbook on how to get the 'right' behaviors.
But why did so many doctors and 'experts' go along? because the government took the role of the authoritarian leadership they are used to when they were little. The "If it ain't broke don't fix it formula", of 'don't rock the boat".
So hard disagree, education past reading comprehension is mostly useless with the internet. If we tested doctors on abilities instead of 'certification', many people would have been saved.
Certification these days is the ability to remember and mimic what was shown, not make deviations with the tools given.
It's how engineering fell from grace, medicine didn't learn that sad lesson from watching.
Simplified version: Stupid teachers trying to teach smart children will always result in failure.
The US school system is geared towards programming sub-100 IQ future serfs with the required narrative of the day. Dept. of Edu. is nothing more than a drone programming service.
I agree. Stupid teachers are a massive problem. I think that the average IQ is somewhere around 105 in USA and slightly higher in EU.
Oversimplification is a sign of low IQ
If a smart child wants to learn how to cook, the cook do not need to be high IQ, same with any other task.
Lets discuss, but you have to use max brain power fren.
"Oversimplification if a sign of low IQ". And then you proceed to do exactly that.
Anyone with an advanced education knows being able to simplify is a sign of knowing a subject extremely well.
A smart child can learn simple tasks from simple people. A smart child can also learn complex tasks from intelligent people. The inverse is patently impossible. It's like trying to teach a cat to play a violin. How is this not exactly what the DoE is doing with diversity hiring/lowered standards while claiming "we don't understand why kids aren't learning, must need more money."
I dont know mate.
read it later, don't get overwhelmed by that other fag.
Remember you can't save everyone.
In the current system most parents (single mothers) would attack you for attempting to control little Jaedon's self expression and you would be out of a job.
No. Not happened yet. I am however not american.
I thought not. Europeans have no idea of the can of worms they've opened on themselves.
We will see. I think the immigrants havent understood where they have moved. Europe is not a nice place
I really think the big difference is kids today are much less likely to be sent outside to play on their own which burns off a lotta steam.
Steam, curiosity, self sufficiency, making friends, learning social skills -- the list is long.
I don't know anyone in my generation (and every one that came before) that doesn't have story of a neighborhood kid that went too far and paid the price. We learned our limits and our skills. Now we have adults in their late 30's thinking "do over's" are possible because they equate real life with a video game.
100% true. It's mind boggling that so often the same people insisting they support conservative social mores and their application are spineless snowflakes when action is needed to control feral behavior.
It's not destructive to teach children that there are real physical and dangerous risks to socially unacceptable behavior. A little childhood humiliation in a safe setting can prevent a ruined future adult.
♪ When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children any way they could
By pouring their derision upon anything we did
Exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kid ♫
False dichotomy. It's not either / or.
Lots of room for productive discussion here. Hopefully everyone can agree that everything in the OP article is wrong. (Kid, teacher, hiring foreign teacher, NC schools, single Mother)
I don’t think the teacher did anything wrong.
It’s non-harmful tape so the kid is embarrassed and shamed for his embarrassing and shameful behavior.
What’s the problem?
Then the spoiled child has the nerve to say “I don’t know what to do” and snap a pic to his mom.
How about: “stop talking in class”.
Why is this hard?
Him asking Mom what he's supposed to do may be the most non-spoiled brat thing he's ever done in his life!
Certainly painter's tape doesn't cause any damage.
Causing embarrassment and shame is ... less than ideal.
Part of the problem is hiring visa workers to teach our kids in the first place. That she didn't know what else to do isn't that horrible - maybe. That the administration didn't teach her better is perhaps as bad as the parent's failing here. Everything about this is wrong, but shouldn't be a federal case.
We don't have enough info to decide if the teacher should be fired, deported, etc. Or exactly who should have made sure she had better skills for such a highly foreseeable situation. Or what the teacher had already tried, or what kind of help she got from who. (Or how everybody else may have abandoned her)
LOTS of other options! Why is taping his mouth shut the best one?
Dude took a pity selfie asking “what do I do? :(“ and sent it to his mom. A good mom would be like “stop talking in class” and apologize to the teacher for not teaching him better manners in the first place. This is a classic spoiled brat move. Act like a dickhead, get reprimanded, whine to mommy.
The fact that whining after receiving the most mild punishment possible WORKED is going to train this little shithead to continue being awful.
I like the tape move. Administrators would’ve had her do -nothing- most likely. And the spoiled brat would’ve continued disrupting the class. Which is the problem.
Administrators and the No-balls approach to education is part and parcel of the progressive culture failure that should be remedied.
Obviously.
And we don't know that didn't happen.
You're describing why administrators are the problem. They also get paid all the money.
There's a balance, we don't have enough info to know what happened, so the default is to say its wrong.
You should see some of the aftermath of people not knowing when to shut up in real life.
Fear is a good survival instinct, can't live without it, but no need to abuse it I agree.
I agree. This is in my opinion not a good solution based on the little information i have. I have however "fixed" a lot of kids like this. Integrity, humility, honesty. Treat kids respectfully and create clear concise rules fra rnwhat is acceptable with clear and concise sanctions.
Humiliating a Kid in front of his friends is just a loosing move by a weak teacher. Probably. We dont know everything
All kids need FAFO training.
I was working with a class two years ago with six "social challenges" in it about two-three years ago.
One of the issues we were dealing with was a Kid with divorced parents, father was an abusive Turk who left to go back to Turkey. That Kid had a typical leftist woman as mother and was constantly talking in class.
I spent time talking to the kid, created rapport and trust. He was small, not good in sports and picked on by other classmates. His only way of getting respect was to "attack the teacher verbally" in class. It was a self defense mechanism. I took him out of class, explained what I wanted to see, explained what would happen if he continued to verbally challenge me. There is more to it, but that is basicly it. Ten thousand small things.
One of the differences between me and their normal teacher is that the kids respected me. I could then use that social position and leadership to enact change in the group dynamic. Kids want desperately a good leader.
Great teachers can make a HUGE difference! I remember every great teacher I ever had. God Bless you ...
That's actually hilarious. The kid you described has no more trauma than the basic bumps encountered by a majority of kids. Of course talking worked.
Try your methods with a 160 IQ schizo-effective ADHD kid that survived attempted parental murder attempts, or a 75 IQ kid exposed to cocaine and ignored by his mother to the point that he'll never learn how to speak properly, let alone learn self control.
Yes. Offcourse it worked. I would not do the same thing with a "160 IQ schizo-effective ADHD kid that survived attempted parental murder attempts".
I showed that example because it is similar to the kid we are talking about. It was a dude who was disorderly in class. I dont get your point. The entire point is that this is easy things to "fix". Child soldiers from Africa who are refugees without parents and addicted to methamphetamine is another type of kids who is also difficult to "fix".
Teachers cant "fix" anything deep, only provide leadership and guidance in a classroom.
Yeah, it probably got lost in the weeds here, but I agreed that the teacher was out of line.
My point is the majority of US kids are dealing with problems closer to "refugees without parents" rather than "broken home". We're way beyond any simple fix for our education system. A teacher that places painter's tape on an unruly child needs more training, but a school system that never disciplines anti-social behavior is in ruins.
agreed. Get normal people into the schools. So many great people who can do tremendous amount of great work. More parents, unclear, aunts, grandparents less neoliberal activist grooming pedophiles
agreed. Get normal people into the schools. So many great people who can do tremendous amount of great work. More parents, unclear, aunts, grandparents less neoliberal activist grooming pedophiles
In my experience with people that claim they can fix all children with rational talk, the children they deal with are not on the left of the bell curve, or they've never encountered one with severe physical hyperactivity.
No. Im not what you think I am. I work with the worst of the worst of kids everyday. I am an engineer working as a teacher without the education as a teacher. I gonfrom school to school fixing "gangsterkids". You do not need to humiliate kids to get them to do what you want.
You are however wrong that humiliation and punishment is necessary to create respect in a group. Personally I try to follow my own core tenets. Integrity and honesty is probably enough in most cases as long as there are no underlying issues like rape or whatever.
She is a weak teacher who failed to lead her class. She is probably a lot of what you say, but I am not.
I'd be pissed off if my son's teacher did this. Not because it harmed him, but because it's ineffective and not her place. Send him to the office. Hell, spank the kid! I'm in favor of corporal punishment. But this is dangerous. My son can barely breath through his nose half the time, and this could cause asphyxiation..
No, this sort of response is wrong.
If your kid had this happen to him then he needs a better father to parent him.
This doesn't happen because he was just a little annoying once. No. This is that faggot who WONT SHUT THE FUCK UP and runs his mouth constantly. Disrespect everyone around him and doesn't give a fuck about anything other than himself.
His own mom said essentially he's a shit. Probably no father.
If this happened to your child, then your child fucking deserved it and you need to go look in a mirror and ask why you're such a failure at raising a human. CPS would do a better job.
I disagree, but not completly. Some kids have good structure at home but just don't stop talking. Generally they're just talking though, not being intentionally disrespectful or argumentative.
Based on the other behavior described you're probably right about his home life, but that doesn't give the teacher the right to tape his mouth shut.
Some kids are highly intelligent and have low impulsecontrol. It is not a bad thing to talk a lot. BUT this Kid needs to learn discipline. When to talk is important.
Not only is taping his mouth shut not a right, it's worse than ineffective. It's almost certainly counter productive, destroying any respect for authority that might have been there, and creating contempt; likely in extreme amounts.
This teacher was hired from a different culture and not taught jack shit, blame that on administration!
Think mirror.
You don't have nearly enough information to be able to say any of that, except we know this wasn't a one time situation.
Venting is ok, being a jerk is not.
It’s effective and it’s her place to do it. If your shithead kid is disrupting class I want him shut up so my kids can learn. This was a super nonviolent way to do it.
There’s no chance your kid would die of asphyxiation from painter’s tape on his mouth. If you’re that scared of the basic environment, don’t send your kid to school and teach him yourself.
Everything about this is wrong: kid, teacher, administration, school system, parent ...
Kick the kid out of the fucking class. Send him to the principals office. You don't get to put your hands on a fucking kid and tape their mouth shut. I bet you wouldn't try that shit to someone else kid, or you would only be doing that shit once. What kind of retard tries to justify this when there are plenty of options to deal with a talking child?
I almost agree with you. I think corporal punishment needs to be allowed and removing it was an obvious mistake, but tape like this helps nothing. And parental involvement needs to be a big part of the picture before any corporal punishment is likely to be a good idea; every kid learns differently and the parents should know best.
A parent teacher conference where they agree on terms and then invite the kid in to have Dad explain that this teacher absolutely can and will spank them just like at home if needed could work wonders, if done right. And by "work wonders" I mean the teacher doesn't need to resort to corporal punishment at all, and the kid respects everyone involved and actually learns.
fag
Yet if you do this with masks…
So stunning, so brave!
You lay hands on my child in any way and I'll make sure you never do again.
When I was in school, you'd need to bring a permission slip in that basically said "I give the school and it's staff to authorization to beat my child's ass, should he act in an antisocial manner."
My parents had much the same attitude as you, but they gleefully signed that paper and then all was good. I think they didn't mind people beating me, so long as they asked first.
That's the concept. We were punished in school. The same way with friends parents.
Your parents knew and told you as much before hand. They were an extension of your parents authority. Not independent.
Can confirm. My stepdad gleefully told me that he gave the school permission to beat my ass, and indeed they did. I had a couple of teachers who would beat your ass if you didn't complete your homework assignment. When the time came to turn in the assignment, anyone who didn't was told to stand up and the teacher would walk by with his wooden paddle and we'd each get a "swat". It was a daily occurrence. If you really fucked up, you would be sent to the principal's office for your swats, and he had a much larger paddle. I had that happen a couple of times for ditching school and having too many absences.
This needs to be read in Chris Rock voice:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lx12Rox91ww
Then homeschool him.
I’m sick of the spoiled kids with mommy and daddy backing their bad behavior such that academic performance is tanking.
Don't have time. It's why we pay for private teaching. One of the joys and shit things about running your own business.
Hey same. But also- I want my kid to sit there and learn.
So if your kid is being a disruptive shit I want the teacher to put tape on his mouth.
Which should be fully discussed way before it's happening.
How come these articles never give the important information, like what was the little shit doing exactly? That should be paragraphs 2 and 3 of a story like this.
Yep if he doesn't learn quick someone's going put a fist to that mouth. He sounds like one of those faggots that interrupt and distract in class for attention, not realizing the attention is because he is a huge faggot.
Fist to the mouth is often the best teacher.
Also what else did the teacher do? Everything about this is wrong.
I remember the nuns in the school I went to. A little tape on the mouth? Yeah, right! Better call a waaaabulance!
Honestly. Everyone on the side of the kid here needs to read The Coddling of the American Mind.
I have zero sympathy for the kid here. Boop de doo.
Looks like painter's tape
The "stripped of her visa" comment is interesting. They put it in quotes, so she wasn't actually stripped of her visa? Also, wouldn't such an action involve the state department? Maybe the school was sponsoring her visa? This just raises many more questions.
Like what was she trained to do as a teacher? Administration did jack squat. Note the NC schools.
Not to nitpick but Painter’s tape is not heavy duty.
I’m kinda taking the teacher’s side here. This chick gets the hammer dropped on her, but dozens of purple-haired psychos openly brag about corrupting young children towards self-harm and suicide, encouraging them to conceal what they’re doing from their parents, and expose them to sexual predators, yet nothing happens to them.
You’re all right with some black bitch taping a White kids mouth shut? I guarantee she doesn’t do that to black students.
She’s not an American black.
She might actually be a good teacher taking care of a disruptive student.
You have a point that every teacher needs the freedom to do something. This is particularly ineffective, regardless of skin color.
Everything about this situation is wrong beginning with the kid, including the parent, school administration, etc.
haven’t looked at the image yet
Black woman with weave..
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I KNEW IT!!!
I expected her to be much fatter though
I’m sure she is
Painters tape is not heavy duty
Don’t you understand, she’s knows what’s best for your child.
Now painters take is heavy duty... I wish 🤣
I don't want to defend this teacher but blue painters tape is not fucking heavy duty tape, and the kid says "I don't know what to do" have you tried not talking so much during class?? No, apparently not.
Boys and girls should be educated separately
Not that I support taping kids mouth shut but it's less damaging to their mental health than loading them up with Ritalin and SSRIs because they have the audacity to act like children in class.
What's the problem? Get being disruptive in class gets ridiculed and learns to be less disruptive.
The problem is nobody learns anything good like this and it doesn't necessarily mean a shit teacher, the school administration did absolutely nothing to train someone from a different culture.
The only thing I'm taking from this story is - at least there was an equal application of administrative justice in this situation regarding the racial component.
We all know that if the races of the parties involved were reversed, the teacher in question would have absolutely lost their job.
It's actually surprising to see that happen in this case, given the absolute lack of common sense and fairness that runs rampant these days...
Imagine if the kid had been black and the teacher white.
I can't breeve!
They never shut the fuck up.
It is stfu Fridayyyy
Well the kid should shut the fuck up, but send him to the principals office, and call his parents. Fuckin tape ? Really ?
Kid probably was a pain in the ass. However, she would never have the balls to do that to a kid if she was working in an inner city school.
Thats fucking painter's tape, fuck off with the misleading language.
Ain't gonna lie, I'm seeing nothing intrinsically wrong with taping a boys mouth shut. But maybe I'm biased being the class clown in a Catholic school growing up. We got paddled too, terrifying experience but it worked and we deserved it. I was tied to my seat with an extension cord once to stop me from getting up. I had my entire head sans nose and eyes wrapped in packing tape in an effort to humiliate and shut me up but it turns out saliva gets thru the adhesive. Got whooped for that one, and removing the tape involved a priest holding one end of the tape and me spinning around to unwrap it, pulled a decent amount of hairs with it. My mom thought that one was a bit much.
Story from Catholic school: they had a rivalry with us and got out before we did. They built a snow fort, and armed it with ice balls with rocks inside. These Catholic assholes were also all bigger and older than us by several years and had us outnumbered.
They never made that mistake again. They never dared show their face around us again.
No Nun or Priest ever administered that much ahem "learning," I'll guaranfuckingtee you.
Moral of the story is good teachers are important, and their teachers sucked. Some of the methods you described might not be the best in all cases.
Funny, we experienced the inverse from time to time. Discipline is a touchy subject but it is necessary and should be measured. Looking back on my particular whoopins they were all merited, I just chose to continue being a jerk. Others learned more quickly. I eventually was told to not come back which led to getting shipped off to a boarding school in Ireland and that squared me away. Turned out I was just smarter than the grade standard and got bored easily.
A couple of my teachers did this to students in my Jr. High. It was more in good fun. The students in question even laughed.
Let's be real, the kid could take it off in about 1 second. Any retard knows that tape applied like that will come off of it's own in about 2 minutes.
Stripped of her visa? This is the way!
Kek! In 2nd grade, at a Catholic school. I saw Sister Eleanor take a roll of masking tape and strap down a kid to his chair, because he kept fidgeting. Good times back then, they actually paddled kids too. I got it once in 4th grade because I shot out all the classroom lights with desk cleaner.
We used to eat lunch in the classroom and kids rotated the desk cleaning task while everyone went out for recess. The classroom lights looked kind of like Saturn, a big globe bulb with like 3 diffuser rings around it. Star Wars just came out and I adjusted the sprayer bottle to stream. I squirted a bulb and it exploded like the Death Star. It was so cool, I shot the other 5 bulbs out.
This is hilarious!
I am shocked. She is not a ham beast.
I'm sorry but "heavy duty" and "painters tape" in the same article makes me roll my eyes at the whole article. No need to embellish something like this.