There's a celebration the weekend of June 16-18, and already jockeying for position are two women seeking to be crowned queen of the Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival.
One of them duct-taped a kid to a chair and then taped his mouth shut, but I'm inclined not to vote for her because she enlisted the aid of two other students to hold down the 14-year-old boy. She resigned her teaching position, but will most likely be hired by the Office of Homeland Security.
The other, a third grade teacher, taped two kids' mouths shut for disrupting class. Unlike the Oran, Missouri, teacher, the Du Quoin, Illinois, elementary school teacher handled the mischievous Brittany Smith and her disruptive buddy, Taylor, with help from no one. And the teacher received only a two-day suspension. I am sure that she was represented by an enterprising lawyer who argued that she was merely worried about the kids' health.
Posted by Bill at March 5, 2004 01:59 PMThis is not positive information.... Duck Tape is being abused... everyone knows it is made to hold chairs TOGETHER not kids to chairs.
-d
Posted by: d at March 5, 2004 02:10 PMThe police in Britain killed an illegal immigrant this way. She was yelling too much, they 'shut her up', she had a cold! Are teachers in the States still allowed to get physical with their pupils? We are not allowed to touch, not even a hug of reassurance.
Posted by: Anji at March 8, 2004 01:47 AM